Trailblazing Melbourne garage-pop/hard rock band Girl Monstar are back with their first album since 1992! Girl Monstar’s new album GRRRR!! is out today on Vicious Kitten Records. It follows the singles ‘Hate Train’ and ‘Blue Cat With Green […]
Hugh Cornwell, the original singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of The Stranglers, returns to Australia with his band this June. As leader of The Stranglers, Hugh was the main songwriter of all the band’s most […]
Veteran troubadour Steve Poltz has released his new album, JoyRide, via Red House Records today. The album is Poltz’s 14th studio collection, and is streaming everywhere, while vinyl, CD, and an exclusive new merch line […]
Things of Stone and Wood are back, and with the double a-side single “You’d Gone before You Went/The Windmills Turn”, from their first album since 2003. Rae Street will be released via MGM on February […]
Nick Barker and the Reptiles was and always will be a bar band at heart. Most comfortable in the type of small sticky-carpet rooms that were the heart and soul of the Australian live music […]
By Des Cowley. A highlight of last year’s Melbourne International Jazz Festival (MIJF) was a two-night showcase of music by artists associated with the Earshift Music label, founded in Sydney by saxophonist Jeremy Rose in […]
Episode 8 of On The Record opens with Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie doing what many seasoned music listeners now do instinctively when the Grammys roll around: stare at the screen and wonder which planet […]
Buddy Guy and Robert Randolph, both of whom will be appearing at Bluesfest over Easter and doing other touring dates, won Grammy Awards today. Guy won his 9th Grammy, this time for Ain’t Done With […]
On the latest episode of On The Record, Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie ease into their weekly cultural ramble with the sombre news of Bob Weir’s death—remembering an artist whose band (The Grateful Dead) they […]
Rob Hirst, the propulsive force behind Midnight Oil, has died at the age of 70 after a valiant three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. The Aussie rock titan — a drummer, songwriter, activist, and storyteller — […]
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