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Wednesday February 20 Allphones Arena, Sydney, NSW The rise, breakdown and inevitable reprise of Blink-182 has been a steady one. Their first few albums were a ’must own’ for anyone who even feigned…

When Soundwave Touring chose to put The Chariot, Pierce The Veil and Bring Me The Horizon in one room, they would be arrogant not to anticipate anarchy. But while promoter AJ Maddah has been accused…

Paul McCartney dropped the Revolver-esque New yesterday, and it sent us down a worm-hole of all-Macca-all-the-time. To celebrate the prospect of an album full of new McCartney material (out October…

Darren Hayes | Artist Prince - Purple Rain The year was 1984 and the album that changed my life was Purple Rain by Prince and the Revolution. To put things into context, this is the year of FM stereo…

Due in part to the fairly ubiquitous tribute album that shares this song’s title, She Will Have Her Way seems to have slipped quietly from Finn’s commonly agreed upon canon of Stone Cold Classics, an…

Mark Holden | Songwriter Blue - Joni Mitchell Songs are like tattoos. These songs are etched into my soul. I stumbled on the blue cover art in a Canberra record store in 1970 on a house-swap vacation…

The 33rd annual CMJ Music Marathon has gotten off to a rocky start this week, as a suit filed in New York State Supreme Court claims CMJ owes a concert promoter $1m. The case stems from an attempt at…

Zan Rowe | Triple J Fugazi - Red Medicine As a teenager, a heap of my musical discoveries came from my best friend’s big sister. Her and her mates steadily built a collection of, up until then,…

Ariana Grande Right There ft. Big Sean REP/UMA This track is a throwback to that addictive ’90s R’n’B sound that seems to be permeating radio more and more these days - a good sign indeed, both…

Marty Smiley | Channel [V] Presenter Michael Jackson - HIStory I was too young to watch and hear MJ’s rise to world domination as the King of Pop. So HIStory, when I was ten years old, was the best…