JIMMY BARNES BREAKS RECORD FOR THE MOST #1s IN ARIA CHART HISTORY, ECLIPSING U2 & MADONNA MY CRIMINAL RECORD IS BARNES’ 16TH #1 ALBUM! Australian rock legend Jimmy Barnes has secured a staggering sixteenth #1 album, with his critically acclaimed My Criminal Record debuting at the top of the ARIA Album Charts. After four with Cold Chisel and now 12 …

Australian hit machine Diesel has today announced the Sunset Suburbia project: a trilogy of EPs leading into an album in 2020. And to coincide with the release of new music, Diesel will hit the road once again this October. With his powerhouse band, Diesel will showcase songs from all three Sunset Suburbia EPs, plus hits and fan favourites spanning 30 …

1989. Bob Hawke is still Prime Minister, Canberra and Hawthorn are NRL and VFL Premiers, the Berlin Wall came down and Bart Simpson became a TV superstar. Tim Burton’s Batman was released, the 14th Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and it was the final months of the 1980s… It was also the year acclaimed Cold Chisel co-founder …

They say ‘you can’t keep a good man down’, well in the case of Australia’s country music legend Lee Kernaghan, it is more a matter of ‘you can’t stop the Boy from the Bush from flying’… Flying up the charts that is! In an amazing first week ARIA Chart result Lee’s new album Backroad Nation scored an incredible: #3 ARIA …

In addition to his just announced shows with The Aints! Ed Kuepper will also take to the road for a series of regional dates as he starts preparing material for a new solo album. “I’m hitting the road again this September and doing a pretty select number of solo shows. I’ll be debuting a swag of new material which will …

Country music sweetheart Tania Kernaghan is 100 per cent comfortable within her own skin. The singer-songwriter, who recently celebrated her 50th birthday, has never felt more secure within herself, and with her direction in life – and it shows. Embracing that infectious positivity, Tania is sharing her message of self-acceptance with a powerful new single, Better Worn In. Written and …

Beloved Sydney three-piece Art vs Science are back. Feeling inspired after a blistering headline set at the Hills Are Alive festival on New Years Eve, the band spent the past couple of months in the studio, writing and recording songs that signal a return to their roots, carrying the lessons learnt of long years in the wilderness.  ‘Zeus‘ is the …

Kate Ceberano and Paul Grabowsky are taking their first duo recording on the road with the Tryst tour heading to Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide this coming August, September and November. The Tryst tour is a very personal and intimate journey into words and music by two of Australia’s most respected musicians reinterpreting of some of the great love …

ARIA (the Australian Recording Industry Association) and The Song Room, a national arts education organisation, are excited to announce that nominations for the 2019 Telstra ARIA Music Teacher of the Year Award are now open. This year’s Telstra ARIA Music Teacher of the Year Award will be dedicated in loving memory of Richard Gill AO, the much admired music educator …

The Great Barrier Reef is under threat… … and in response a new collaboration of artists, musicians, film-makers and performers have united to create a poetic statement on the future of the natural wonder that is the great barrier reef. SELFLESS is a 12-piece Post-Rock Orchestra that unites a group of established musicians from a variety of disciplines including the Perth …