Colin Hay leads a new Men At Work touring lineup through Australia, revisiting the catalogue that made the band an international success, alongside a selection of his solo material.
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7 hours agoBeds Are Burning, Treaty, I Am Woman and My Island Home are among the inaugural selections for a new national archive recognising the songs that have helped shape Australia's cultural identity.
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Three decades after Mike Judge took his MTV slackers to the big screen, the soundtrack remains an unlikely meeting point for funk, heavy metal, punk and alternative rock, with AC/DC, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ozzy Osbourne and Isaac Hayes sharing one distinctly mid-90s collection.
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Johnny Cash's second collaboration with Rick Rubin brought Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers into the studio, recruited musicians from Fleetwood Mac and Red Hot Chili Peppers, and established the American Recordings series as one of the defining chapters of Cash's career.
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Released on the day Americans voted in the 1996 presidential election, the Seattle trio's second album continued their extraordinary mid-90s success, reaching number three in Australia while bringing songs from their earliest independent recordings into the major-label era.
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Fifty years ago, the Jackson brothers left Motown, replaced Jermaine with Randy and began a new chapter with Epic Records. Their self-titled debut introduced Michael Jackson as a songwriter, gave the group unprecedented creative freedom and established the foundations for the music that would follow on Destiny and beyond.
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Named after the Liverpool street where John Lennon spent his formative years with Aunt Mimi, the 1986 posthumous collection brought together recordings from two very different periods of his solo career. With Yoko Ono overseeing the release and Andy Warhol supplying the artwork, Menlove Ave. remains one of the more personal chapters in Lennon's posthumous catalogue.
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Rose Carleo Band will launch their national tour for 42 Days with three Queensland shows in January 2027, taking the ARIA-charting album to Ipswich, the Gold Coast and Toowoomba.
1 day agoCraig 'Bloxy' Bloxom leads a revitalised V.Spy V.Spy through a sold-out Melbourne show, with Bob Spencer adding another dimension to a set dominated by the band's landmark 1986 albums.
1 day agoRussell Morris will make his first stage appearance since retiring in 2025 when he joins Kate Ceberano at QPAC on 14 November. The special guest appearance is a one-off, not a return to touring or performing. Fanny Lumsden also joins selected Queensland dates.
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The eight-CD and DVD collection, Boom Boom: The Ultimate Animals 1963-1966, brings together the band's classic recordings, 59 surviving BBC performances, previously unreleased studio material and a rediscovered 1965-66 documentary, The World Of The Animals.
1 day agoThe Atlanta hard rock band will bring their fifteenth studio album ONE to Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in February 2027, with Brisbane progressive metal group Caligula's Horse as special guests.
1 day agoMUNA will make their Melbourne headline debut at the Forum on 15 February 2027, adding an exclusive Victorian show to their Australian return for Laneway Festival as they tour their fourth album, Dancing On The Wall.
1 day agoRico Nasty will return to Australia for the first time in more than seven years, adding debut headline performances in Sydney and Melbourne to her Laneway Festival 2027 appearances.
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