Tag: Australian music

Midnight Oil, one of Australia's best bands ever! We walk through their past records to look at their top 10 songs according to us!

Mundi Mundi Plains is set to become the home of Australia’s biggest outback music event this August. Never heard of it? You’re not alone.

Melbourne-born performing star who sung the female anthem I Am Women and other hits has passed away in Los Angeles.

“With everyone at home, now is the time for all Australians to get behind our local artists and screen professionals,” says ARIA boss.

Aussie legends Midnight Oil will be shaking down London's O2 Brixton Academy on 13 June. You and a mate could nab a pair of tickets!

Rob Hirst, Midnight Oil’s inspiring drummer/songwriter/singer, gives Lee Harte a first-class education in music and politics, and hints at new tunes on the horizon.

Australia's Gang of Youths are bringing authenticity back into fashion. Their music gives you permission to be excited, to admit to loving someone, to confront tragedy, and to "say the unsayable".

INTERVIEW: “Once you’ve got the war paint on I feel a bit like a boxer, moving around the ring. C’mon, let me at em, let me at em," Oz music legend Joe Camilleri tells LEE HARTE ahead of The Black Sorrows' UK shows.

The 'Oils have announced a string of dates for the European summer, including Manchester and London, with tickets now on sale.

With a new live format and a new album, it's UK audiences' turn to be treated to a bigger and more dynamic live show from John Butler Trio+...

Jack confessed to me later, "I could do what I do up there all day long, but tonight it felt a little like ice-skating."

INTERVIEW: Ahead of her upcoming gigs in London and Brighton, we dissect Sarah Blasko’s celebrated new album Depth of Field by asking the woman herself.

That time an Australian Times reader was unceremoniously fired from his job in London over a big night with The Cat Empire.

Australia’s premier surf-roots-reggae trio returns to London this week to celebrate the anniversaries of 'Morning Sun' and 'Learn Yourself'

INTERVIEW: “We had no career plans to be musicians. That isn't even on the radar where I grew up. We just wanted to make some music that would sound good playing at the local skate park or someone's house party by the beach.”

Internet users were rather shocked when they saw a Tweet explaining that singer Natalie Imbruglia’s classic hit single 'Torn' is actually a rip off.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Dr G Yunupingu did not need to die; he was killed by a system that abandoned him, writes TESS LAWRENCE.

REVIEW: The dance floor was jumping - literally. There were people everywhere clapping with their hands, stomping with their feet and entangling their senses to a session of broad musical mastery.

Get up close and personal with one of Australia's most beloved bands The Black Sorrows at Nell's Jazz and Blues, for one night only.

Is Melbourne really Australia’s music capital? I crunched the numbers to find that the jury is still out on this claim. Indeed arch rival, Sydney (or even Adelaide) have a chance to claim this title.

If you missed out on getting tickets to the first London gig, don't let this second chance get away from you to see the return of the mighty Oils...

A stunned Flume proud to be representing Aussie sounds at American music's night of nights.

Check out these Chrissy crackers: Laugh and cry with this Santa's swag of Christmas carols that capture our uniquely Australian Yuletide experience.

Seminal Aussie band The Triffids set for a special performance of their most important album ‘Born Sandy Devotional’ in memorial to founding member David McComb.

So what then for next year? Can Australia go one better? Will we even get an invite? Dami Im's full electrifying Eurovision 2016 grand final performance.

Seminal Aussie rock band Midnight Oil have announced they will be getting back together and hitting the road, both at home and abroad.

Wolfmother set to howl across the UK in April as part of their European live tour.

AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson forced by doctors to quit playing live. World tour on hold. Is this the finish line for Australia's greatest music export?

Xavier Rudd is set to return to London, for an unforgettable show at Camden’s Electric Ballroom.

Tame Impala and Courtney Barnett were the big winners at this year’s grand Aussie music shindig.

Australia will compete for a second time at the world’s biggest pop music cheese-fest, Eurovision.

The Cat Empire’s newly announced tour includes a few extra cities being added to the band’s usual UK sojourn. And there’s a new single to boot!

Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll covered a sensitive, intensely observant Tim Rogers for the bulk of You Am I's body of work. But with the boys and substances taking a back seat, his songwriting is nakedly on display.

“With the heaviest of hearts, we share this utterly tragic news. While in transit to our show yesterday, our Stage Manager, Shane, and Touring Drummer, Mick, were involved in an horrific car accident which killed Shane and seriously injured Mick.”

Tickets are on sale now for the UK leg of San Cisco's European tour.

REVIEW: God made music and the devil kept time at London’s Bush Hall.

Australia's Eurovision contestant Guy Sebastian is very popular with last year's champion, Conchita Wurst.

Bernard Fanning of Powderfinger fame talks music, art and living ‘the Spanish way’, ahead of the UK leg of his European tour.

Here's a little taste of what Eurovision 2015 can expect from Australia's very own entrant, Guy Sebastian. What will he sing?

Singer-songwriter Guy Sebastian is "pumped" to compete at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. Here's what he has to say about how he plans to represent Australia.

For the very first time, the effervescent Eurovision song contest will include Australia as a competing nation. Sam Pang wants to get AC/DC and Midnight Oil on the phone.

Sia Furler, Iggy Azalea and Keith Urban may have come home empty handed from the Grammys, but AC/DC threw the horns for Australia.

Australia’s Karnivool are returning to the UK for The Divergence Tour this March with some new material, proving you can’t have too much of a good thing.

Not only did Triple J ban 'Shake It Off' from their hottest 100, but they said some pretty nasty things about KFC and Buzzfeed's #Tay4Hottest100 campaign too. Meanwhile, Chet Faker claimed #1. Here's what went down.

Controversy over #TayHottest100 hashtag campaign which urges voting for 'Shake It Off' in this year's Triple J Hottest 100 and could oust an Aussie artist from the top spot.

No Barnesy, no Farnesy. Just the most amazing pop songs ever to have originated from the land down under for this Australia Day.

We may be many, but we certainly aren’t one when it comes to celebrating our national identity through music. Laurence Driscoll examines why the gay community often feel excluded from Australia Day celebrations.

Jetlag bar have stocked the fridge full of Aussie beer, getting set for a massive Australia Day with movies and Triple J. Plus there’s live Down Under tunes at The Purple Turtle.

The Tait Memorial Trust’s annual winter prom is set to showcase a dazzling array of young Australian talent.

ALBUM REVIEW | Big riffs, plenty of distortion, Angus’s solos, numerous mentions of the word ‘rock’ and no ballads. What else does do you expect from AC/DC’s new offering, ‘Rock or Bust’?