Music
Christina Amphlett — rebel with a cause

Australia mourns the passing of one of the country’s most iconic rock stars — the lead singer ...  
New Music through Old Ears: Stone Sour SNOG The Strokes

This week music maven John Turnbull listens to some melodic metal, a helping of socially aware ...  
New Music through Old Ears: Dido Watts Eels

Another mixed musical bag from tuneful old John Turnbull, who reviews new music by the Eels, Alex ...  
New Music through Old Ears — Canadian sci-fi metal twins

This week John Turnbull take us for a listen to a pair of Canadian lesbians, an African American ...  
Loud Music for Old Ears: Soundwave Special II — Body Art

There are at least ten different types of tattoo, according to John Turnbull, and all of them were ...  
Loud Music for Old Ears: Soundwave Special

John Turnbull reviews the Soundwave hard rock and heavy metal music festival held in Sydney last ...  
New Music Through Old Ears: Monsters fall out of Beiber

The man who listens to crappy music so you don’t have to, John Turnbull, reviews Fall Out Boy ...  
New music through old ears: Biffy Clyro, Newsted and Ben Harper

This week, John Turnbull has a bit of undercooked Blues, a tasty piece of well-polished Metal, and ...  
New music through old ears: One Bowie and Del Ray Direction

IA's resident polymath, John Turnbull, is back with more new music reviews — including David ...  
New music through older ears

Slightly worn music afficionada John Turnbull review some new albums by some new – and some ...  
Violent Femmes' Brian Ritchie interviewed about #GlobalNOISE

IA goes experimental – after an introduction by artist and Occupy Melbourne activist Carl ...  
Pussy Riot and Assange

Artist and activist Carl Scrase says we cannot condemn the Russian persecution of Pussy Riot ...  
A Hard Rain homage to Dylan

"I'm goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'/... Where the executioner's face is always ...  
How Seven turns riches into rags — to create riches

How Channel Seven’s Australia’s Got Talent turned one of Australia’s most successful perf ...  
Robin Gibb:

The death today of the the Bee Gees Robin Gibb from has rocked the Australian – and world – ...  
The redemption of Owen Campbell and the sorry state of Australian music

  In a grim reminder of how the Australian music industry works, a contrite Owen Campbell ...  
Greg Ham joined a band and conquered the world

Greg Ham, that iconic flautist from Men at Work’s greatest song, Down Under, has died. Music ...  
Owen Campbell has talent fragile B grade celebrities lack

Brilliant Australian singer-guitarist Owen Campbell showed up the fragile egos of three B-grade ...  

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