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Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know was voted ninth in the Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years poll. What makes some songs endure as a classic and others fade away?

January 24, 2018

What makes a classic song? The economics of the Hottest 100

Liam Lenten, La Trobe University and Jordi McKenzie, Macquarie University

Number crunching the Hottest 100 votes produces fascinating insights into shifting musical tastes and poses the question: why was 1997 such a great year for music?

January 26 is just one date that represents the dispossession of Australia’s First Nations. AAP Image/Dan Peled

November 29, 2017

Henry Reynolds: Triple J did the right thing, we need a new Australia Day

Henry Reynolds, University of Tasmania

January 26 marks one of the greatest expropriations in modern history, which took place at Sydney Cove. Why do so many Australians want to commemorate an act of egregious injustice?

Heidi Mellington, performing here with Anthony Smith in Dizzygothica in 2007, has spoken about the importance of a supportive local music scene for emerging artists. Rachel Cobcroft/flickr

October 5, 2017

Underground in Brisvegas: can an electronic dance music artist thrive outside the city?

Sebastien Darchen, The University of Queensland

Depite new technologies for music dissimination, EDM artists located in cities have access to resources not available in non-metropolitan areas.

Adam Briggs and Trials from A.B. Original, winners of this year’s AMP Australian Music Prize, use swearing to make a political point in their music. Tracey Nearmy

April 12, 2017

How pop culture can (and should) change legal views on swearing

Elyse Methven, University of Technology Sydney

The pervasiveness of profanity in popular culture underscores the absurdity of punishing people for using words broadcast on our screens and heard in our music.

The debate around whether or not Taylor Swift should be in the running for Triple J’s Hottest 100 has sparked useful discussion about the role of the youth broadcaster. EPA/JASON SZENES

January 23, 2015

Taylor Swift, Triple J and what the youth market really wants to hear

Gemma Blackwood, Charles Darwin University

This Monday on the Australia Day public holiday, Triple J’s annual Hottest 100 for 2014 will be announced live across the afternoon and evening. While the countdown is usually the ABC radio station’s highest…

DJ Nina Las Vegas of Triple J, a station taking risks that benefit others. AAP/City of Sydney

January 19, 2015

Triple J is a rare beast, an exemplar for economic policy

Jason Potts, RMIT University

It’s a common refrain among the “dries” in any government that arts and cultural policy should set its course by the lights of economic policy, usually competition, growth and innovation policy. Sometimes…

Double J staff in the early days. The station’s been going strong for 40 years. ABC Radio

January 18, 2015

Happy birthday Triple J: Australian radio’s enfant terrible turns 40

Cathy Hope, University of Canberra

Australia’s public youth radio station, Triple J, turns 40 today. On January 19 1975, Triple J’s AM predecessor, Double J, infamously burst onto Sydney’s airwaves with the track, You Just Like Me Cause…

Arctic Monkeys are certain to feature in this year’s most voted songs. AAP Image/MG Promotions

January 24, 2014

We love music: why Triple J’s Hottest 100 still rocks

Mark Pollard, The University of Melbourne

Australia’s national youth station, Triple J, has come in for some criticism lately, with a spate of articles accusing it of homogenising Australian music tastes or excluding too many local acts from the…

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