Purple Reign: the sublime mystery of Prince
A year after Prince's death, fans the world over are still coming to terms with the loss of an uncompromising musical and cultural visionary.
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Chuck Berry: one of the only musicians with a genuine claim to be the founder of a genre
Legendary is an overused adjective in popular culture, but Berry’s passing is a salutary reminder of what a giant in the field actually looked like.
Prince’s gift was that he stepped right out of racism’s symbolic logic
Superstar Prince’s impact went far beyond the realm of music. His relevance stretched beyond the concert hall into many lecture rooms.
Ten years on, The Libertines release fresh anthems for a new doomed youth
A songwriter whose path crossed twice with the infamous noughties band, now reformed, considers their pull.
The Beatles ruled rock ‘n’ roll – but it’s time to let it be
Rock ‘n’ roll is turning 60 … about now. The exact date depends on who is doing the reminiscing. But should this event be treated as a birthday celebration or a memorial? In films such as Torn Curtain…
New type of rock formed from plastic waste
Scientists have found a new type of rock form that consists of plastic waste and will one day act as evidence of human impact…
Superb fairy-wrens recognise an adult cuckoo … with some help
Can superb fairy-wrens learn to respond to brood-parasitic cuckoos by simply watching other fairy-wrens react to a cuckoo? That’s the question posed in a new Biology Letters study by myself and Naomi Langmore…
Born in the AUS: Swan’s Springsteen tribute shows you don’t mess with the Boss
Wayne Swan’s deeply felt and widely pilloried use of the music of Bruce Springsteen as some kind of political motivation begs some interesting questions. On the one hand it has those of us who remember…
New movement on plate tectonics
Zircon crystals from ancient rocks in Greenland suggest the movement of plate tectonics to have occurred 3.2 billion years…
The Last Stand: Cold Chisel and Oz Rock music
It’s December 15th, 1983. Around 13,000 people, a capacity crowd, are packed into the Sydney Entertainment Centre. This is the last of five Cold Chisel shows there. Fans had queued for blocks, some had…
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