David Bowie has long confounded us with enigmatic acts of gender transgression, with gestures and personas drawn from Hollywood stars, literature and avant-garde art. That flame still burns brightly.
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Much like the music of the man it’s based on, Love & Mercy is beautiful, complex, somewhat melancholy, and thought-provoking. It also teaches us some things about creative genius, innovation, and art.
When Bowie sang of aliens, cross-dressed, or emptied himself of colour and light, he demonstrated the power that music, fashion and performance can have in creating a landscape of endless possibility.
Tim McCallum’s performance on The Voice wowed viewers, and offers an opportunity advance social understandings of disability.
Back in 2012, Amanda Palmer was the first person to break US$1,000,000 in crowdfunding on Kickstarter. In doing so, and since, she’s answered the question: what is the internet for?
A gang-rape scene in a new London staging of Rossini’s Guillaume Tell was greeted with audience booing, and has sparked ongoing controversy. Are opera directors at risk of miscomprehending the medium?
Fifty years ago, in the first half of 1965, the British invasion was officially under way – at least, in music. It seemed like all the biggest hits on the American pop charts came from British bands. Ever…
Blood + Thunder offers an entertaining insight into the development of the “Australian Sound” – but why do the producers fail to acknowledge the influence on the blues on that sound?
Only a hard heart could fail to respond on some emotional level when Barack Obama, eulogising at one of the most emotionally and racially charged funerals in US history, started singing Amazing Grace.
It seems like every year there is controversy over Glastonbury lineups and the worst sin in popular music – that of “selling out”.
New studies show that unethical reputations actually don’t concern consumers of streaming services.
Conceptions of forced displacement are very often tied to the notion of “loss”. But certain things do remain.
The unauthorised use of Neil Young’s Rockin’ in the Free World at Donald Trump’s presidential campaign launch raises several questions – and gives us something beautiful to ponder.
Transgender artist Antony Hegarty has successfully used her notoriety to publicly address issues close to her, including transgender politics, ecological consciousness and indigenous spirituality.
The way Africa consumes is music has changed dramatically because of the smartphone explosion.
Online streaming offers benefits for consumers and the companies providing the service, but thus far it hasn’t been paid off for artists.
The rock promoter thinks festivals are on the way out. But he couldn’t be further from the truth.
Not all children move through the same range of processes when they compose music – but those processes, in themselves, nurture important human qualities.
Stanley Donwood has been designing Radiohead’s artwork since 1994. Ahead of his retrospective at Sydney’s Carriageworks this month, we consider the role of art in creating a band’s visual identity.
For all the harm that austerity may have done, it looks to have galvanised music from the margins
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