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ABBA are reportedly planning a ‘virtual and live experience’. What might this actually entail?
With stigma about mental illness still pervasive, The Boss’ frank admission helps shatter some of the most common stereotypes about depression.
Sia is being sued for what her fans felt was a lacklustre show. But pop history is littered with live disasters.
When did revellers stop rebelling?
Unlike museums and stadiums, weekend music and arts festivals can promote culture without gouging taxpayers.
It’s not only Brian Johnson who’s at risk of deafness – are you around music a lot?
Live music has been targeted by terrorism … but it also offers an antidote to it.
While Melbourne has claims to be the music capital of Australia, competition to join the ranks of the world’s ‘superstar music cities’ is fierce.
Singing in a choir really can change your life for the better. And yes, anyone can do it
While the debate seems not to be solvable, three academics look at the question of whether artists should provide entertainment or write for their own pleasure.
The Slovenian band Laibach are best known for their use of fascist iconography – but they’re far more subversive than this might indicate.
When bands “return to their roots,” is it a genuine search, or a way to court critics and sell records?
After a very drawn out and fraught construction, the Philharmonie de Paris is finally open. The 2,400 seat concert hall was conceived with ambitious plans to democratise classical music, and is situated…
As high-density urban living becomes more common in Australia’s larger cities, many live music venues are under increasing pressure to restrict noise levels. In an industry that’s already feeling the pinch…
While legal sales of recorded music continue to suffer from widespread music piracy, the popularity of live music appears to be enjoying an unprecedented boom, particularly in the UK where new stadiums…
We all know music can move us emotionally. But how does it impact on our behaviour? That relationship’s not immediately clear. A YouTube clip was doing the rounds on social media a while ago – the music…
When it was announced recently that Burt Bacharach would be headlining this year’s Wilderness Festival, The Guardian were quick to point out the age of the veteran composer turned performer: The 85-year-old…
A number of my friends have a fervour for Bruce Springsteen I have never been able to understand. I have always thought of his work as prosaic and literal. His songs teeter on the edge of despair at the…
It seems an impossibility: in Nazi-occupied Denmark in the 1940s, one of the hottest jazz orchestras around was the interracial Harlem Kiddies, with two white and three black band members – and a Jewish…
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