After decades on the road touring throughout Australia and the wider world, much-loved indie-pop singer-songwriter Darren Hanlon has become widely renowned as one of the finest musical exports ever to emanate from his birthplace in the Queensland town of Gympie. Yet his new sixth solo album Life Tax has its genesis far further south, down in Melbourne.

Living in the southern capital for a stretch in the pre-COVID times – and having ingratiated himself with the custodians of the local Uniting Ch

While Jeremy Neale’s multi-guitar, garage-rock behemoth Velociraptor is back in action after a lengthy hibernation, his solo career continues unabated with the release of second long-player We Were Trying To Make It Out.

In 1995, then-fledgling promoter Stephen Pavlovic took on the Big Day Out with a killer roster of acts - and almost lost everything in the process

Why 'Machiavelli & The Four Seasons' remains a watershed piece of work for Melbourne's favourite masked iconoclasts two decades on.

Too mainstream to be alternative, too alternative to be mainstream

The controversial album turns 30.