Al Newstead
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Meet this year's ARIA Award nominees (opens the original)
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This year marks the 40th anniversary of the ARIA Music Awards, and the nominees vying for the iconic pointy trophy this November have just been announced. A host of Australian musicians, artisans and performers are lined up across 29 categories, following the induction of six legendary acts being inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame earlier this year: Gurrumul, Jenny Morris, Kate Ceberano, Spiderbait, The Living End and Vika & Linda. Leading the pack, landing eight nominations each, are Genesis O
They're the hottest 2027 ticket but why are Radiohead such a big deal? (opens the original)
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Spare a thought this week for Australian fans heading into a ticketing frenzy to rival Taylor Swift and Oasis. Radiohead, one of the most culturally important and critically acclaimed bands of their generation, return in May 2027 to play their first Australian shows in 15 years. If you're puzzled why so many are losing their minds over a bunch of po-faced Brits, we're here to help. Radiohead epitomise music that is both wildly popular and inventive, uncompromising art that consistently challenge
How Bryce Dessner juggles orchestral concertos with indie rock stardom (opens the original)
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Bryce Dessner has always lived across two worlds. He is the guitarist and keyboardist in The National, one of indie rock's most successful and prestigious acts, which he co-founded in 1999. At the same time, he was a classically trained Yale graduate who composed and performed experimental music around Brooklyn into the early 2000s. He has won Grammys for both alternative and chamber music albums, earned a Best Original Song Oscar for Train Dreams, co-written with Nick Cave, collaborated with mi
Don't Look Back In Anger proves surprisingly moving Oasis reunion tour doco (opens the original)
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Oasis were Britpop's biggest band. But their world-conquering fame grew in tandem with hostile in-fighting between frontman Liam Gallagher and guitarist-songwriter Noel Gallagher, which boiled over backstage at a 2009 Paris concert, breaking up the band. Fifteen years later, a reunion tour provided an opportunity to "fix the narrative," as Noel Gallagher puts it in Don't Look Back In Anger, a documentary on Oasis's 2025 live comeback. Far from a run-of-the-mill concert film or puff piece, it's a
The super-producer who made an album while undergoing cancer treatment (opens the original)
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Best known for producing records for blockbuster British artists Arctic Monkeys, Florence + The Machine, Blur, Pulp and Jessie Ware, James Ford has stepped out from behind the console for a solo album made under extreme circumstances. "I'd been ill since Christmas [2024] and under the weather so much that I could barely think or do anything," Ford tells Double J's Tom Ravenscroft. By the following April, he was admitted to hospital and undergoing chemotherapy for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), a
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