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Rod Stewart announces final tour for 2027: ‘Most definitely my last’
The 81-year-old singer will wrap up a touring career that stretches back to his mid-teens in the early 1960s, with dates...
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Gilla Band: Pugnello review – furious originality fuelled by cathartic aggression and absurdist confessions
Your favourite band’s favourite band unleash a thrilling and relentless 42 minutes of monstrous noise whose precise inst...
Technology
Dance Monkey v the NRL: did Tones and I really turn down $90,000 a minute because she hates her own song?
For the first time in recent history there’ll be no pre-game entertainment at the NRL grand final. But everyone has a di...
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Angry Anderson dies aged 79: Rose Tattoo frontman was a ferocious rock’n’roll singer and youth advocate
The singer, songwriter, actor and advocate, who has died after a cardiac arrest while touring in Europe, kept his band’s...
Entertainment
How much is being close to your favorite artist worth? Superfans are reshaping the concert industry
Some admit to spending thousands of dollars for barricade spots and other VIP perks at concerts, which is slowly becomin...
Lifestyle
Singer Becky Hill looks back: ‘Aside from the music I was making, I hated every minute of my 20s’
The Brit award winner on being scammed by a model agency, coming to terms with sexual assault, and wrestling with impost...
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Ed Sheeran thought fans didn’t want artists to be politically engaged. He’s finding out how wrong he was
Twenty years ago, even Madonna faced radio blacklisting for being overtly political. But in our age of streaming, there’...
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Empress Of: Dream House review – a tender and openhearted rebirth after wildfires razed her house
Lorely Rodriguez contemplates the meaning of home – both physical and emotional – on a gorgeously humid, hopeful album t...
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John Farnham’s 20 best songs
From soaring ballads to a song that belongs on every road-trip playlist, these are the tracks that underscore why ‘the V...
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‘The cauldron was already bubbling …’ Green Lung, Druidess and the return of folk horror to British heavy metal
Playing a sound rooted in 80s bands such as Witchfinder General and Pagan Altar, metal bands are once again gravitating...
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Elkie Brooks looks back: ‘Before I went on stage I used to drink Guinness and a few shots of brandy’
The singer-songwriter on her rock’n’roll past, playing second fiddle to the Beatles, and the key to being an energetic p...
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‘The more famous I got, the bigger my beehive got’: how Mari Wilson made Just What I Always Wanted
‘I was trying to bring back some glamour. The backcombed hair was like architecture really. It took more than 45 minutes...