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Chappell Roan? Sabrina Carpenter? Why Doechii should be music’s next star
Doechii’s excellent new mixtape is up for multiple prizes at the music awards in February.
- by Robert Moran
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Australia’s own K-pop superstar bucks pop girl perfection on a hit-filled debut
Blackpink’s Rosé looks to break free from the industry pressures of her day job on her new solo album.
- by Barry Divola and Annabel Ross
He already won the war. Now Kendrick Lamar flips the bird in the rearview
On the Pulitzer-winning rapper’s surprise new album GNX, Drake doesn’t even rate a mention.
- by Nick Buckley
Amid Gen Z’s shoegaze revival, Total Tommy is the local scene’s shining light
The Sydney artist’s alt-rock debut is one of the most anticipated releases of the year. But a lot had to happen to get here.
- by Jules LeFevre
Beyond death and drugs, Bobby Gillespie and Primal Scream return
At 63, the acid-rave legend talks up Primal Scream’s politically charged new album and their upcoming Australia tour.
- by Robert Moran
‘I’m pretty boring and sort of straight-laced’ – how sobriety improved a musician’s work
Indie darling turned bona fide star Waxahatchee returns to Australia later this month.
- by Brodie Lancaster
‘If you don’t have haters, you ain’t doing it’: How Amyl and the Sniffers became our biggest and brashest export
The band’s last two albums won them ARIA awards and global acclaim. Now they’re battling naysayers and the pitfalls of success.
- by Brodie Lancaster
Amyl and the Sniffers are back with fighting words and fist-pumping energy
New album Cartoon Darkness starts with a vicious smackdown of critics – and things only get better from there.
- by Michael Dwyer
Amyl and the Sniffers release uncensored version of nude music video
The Australian punk rock band’s music video has been lauded as powerful by body positivity advocates.
- by Angus Delaney
‘I play a chord and she says, play a better one’: Finneas on making hits with Billie Eilish
He’s won Grammys and Oscars with his famous younger sister. But for Finneas O’Connell, going solo is a necessary “coping mechanism”, he says.
- by Annabel Ross
The incel era finally has its first classic album
Black Midi frontman Geordie Greep dives into toxic masculinity on his mad solo debut.
- by Robert Moran