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The truly legendary Bobby Womack talks about the Stax days: gospel with Elvis, guidance from Sam Cooke, playing with Aretha and getting high with Sly and Janis Joplin. Let’s start in the ’70s. 1974,…

This evening, The Seekers will receive the coveted Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music at the APRA Music Awards. We spoke to guitarist Keith Potger about the group’s…

In 1995, Gangsta’s Paradise was the crossover rap single: a moody, Pfeiffer-laden video clip, strong social message and misogyny-free, well-enunciated rap verses made the single palatable enough to…

From all accounts, former Death Row Records head Suge Knight is a fucking thug. While Tupac Shakur might have been the one touting the thug life publicly, Knight made his adherence to this lifestyle…

NSW’s boutique Festival of the Sun has enjoyed its fastest sell-out to date, with all 3,000 tickets bought in record time. According to Promoter Scott Mesiti, 85% of the tickets went within weeks of…

You might know her as Santana Lopez from Glee, but Naya Rivera is so much more than that, and in order to prove it – and consequently future-proof her relevance once Glee wraps up next year (I know…

Putting cheese inside the crust of a pizza was one of those amazing ideas that advanced mankind when it was first rolled out by Pizza Hut in 2002 as the main feature of their ’Insider’ range of…

Hilltop Hoods’ annual initiative has opened for 2014, and will offer $10,000 to a hip hop or soul artist who has not yet released an album professionally. The initiative is about softening the…

File-sharing site isoHunt forced to shut down BitTorrent file-sharing website isoHunt has been forced to shut down, after losing a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Columbia Film Industries,…

For many of our readers, Michael Jackson’s menacing, popping Smooth Criminal was irreversibly ruined by Alien Ant Farm nu-metal rendition of the track. For others, Alien Art Farm’s chart-topper is…

The WA Music Awards, which debuts at its new venue the Perth Astor Theatre on November 8, has expanded its lineup. There will be performances from Jordi Davieson of the multi-nominated San Cisco,…

Both Matt Corby and Tim Finn make their Woodford Folk Festival debuts this year, along with sets from Berth Orton, Julian Marley, Busby Marou, The Basics, Clare Bowditch and The Break. Now in its…