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Olivia Rodrigo is at her complicated best on her heartbreaking new album
The pop star chronicles the dawn and demise of her first “big girl relationship” with devastating insight (and Robert Smith).
- by Annabel Ross
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Four star-frenzy: These new albums are so close to perfect
This week’s must-hear albums include a jazz master’s opus, a Danish delight and a Western Australian gem.
- by John Shand, Annie Toller, Nick Buckley, Tom W Clarke and Robert Moran
‘Deeply disappointing’: Music company folds after more than four decades
The board of the Sydney-based institution said on Wednesday that it had appointed a liquidator after considering its long-term financial sustainability.
- by Kayla Olaya and Linda Morris
Exclusive discount offer to a night of immersive music and light*
Access a subscriber-exclusive discount to this immersive one-night experience of music, light and reveal theatre as CUPRA unveils the new Formentor in Australia.
With 26 acts in six spaces, it’s impossible to see it all – but I gave it a red-hot go
Rising’s full-day music festival had something for everyone, even if they didn’t know it beforehand.
- by Karl Quinn
Debbie Gibson on her turning point: ‘I felt like I was selling my soul’
The ’80s pop icon has hard-won advice for today’s young starlets.
- by Robert Moran
They had more than four million YouTube subscribers – so why did TwoSet delete 1400 videos?
TwoSet Violin won millions of fans with their quirky, comic takes on classical music – then they made a huge career call.
- by Rita Glennon
He made the viral song of the year. Now comes the hard part
Meet Hudson Freeman, the indie-folk singer behind the breakout hit If You Know Me.
- by Robert Moran
Get up to 33% off tickets to the Australian Chamber Orchestra in June*
Experience the genre-defying voyage from the pastoral majesty of Vaughan Williams to the experimental universe of Kate Bush, directed by Lawrence Power.
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A musician was too sick to play, so the call went out to the audience. Sterling ran to the stage
Sterling Nasa answered a call from composer-conductor Justin Hurwitz when a musician was too sick to continue.
- by Garry Maddox
She’s toured with Beck and collaborated with Dr Dre – meet our most unlikely music star
Molly Lewis always whistled, but she has turned a childhood pastime into a thriving international career.
- by Garry Maddox