Nathan Jolly

It's one of the most instantly recognisable pieces of music ever, so much so that you probably don't readily identify it as music – the Windows 95 startup sound. It's a heavenly chime, a blend of…

1971 was a turning point for The Rolling Stones. It was the first year post-Beatles break up. It was the first year they were free of their restrictive contract with Decca Records, which meant it was…

There is a very credible conspiracy theory that rapper Nicki Minaj is actually just a sped up Jay-Z, with the actual Nicki a model employed to artfully mime these Jay-Z verses. Of course, it isn't…

Midway through this month, the MBL announced their plans to do away with both electronic and paper ticketing. First they will implement fingerprint technology, then facial scanning. "Safe, simple and…

As I have aged, I have noticed the darnedest thing: triple j no longer appears to be appealing to the youth. Back when I was a teenager, triple j was really in the pocket, playing song after song…

The NSW State Government just unleashed the worst round of arts funding to date. Given their attitude towards the once-thriving night economy in the country's largest city, most of which was built…

Tracing the invention of any artform is messy. For every perceived ground zero, there is someone who was doing the same thing, earlier and independently. Often, artists arrive at the same idea at the…

Songwriters: your APRA Performance Reports are due on July 31. If you're currently scratching your head, staring blankly at the screen and pondering questions like "What's an APRA?", then you…

Spotify thrusts thousands of tracks into unsuspecting ears each day. Now, the streaming giant wants their content providers to have a turn. The Swedish tech firm today launched a new feature in beta…

Kanye West was quite correct when he claimed the 2006 clip for his single 'Touch The Sky' should have won the MTV Music Award for Best Video. As he explained (read: ranted) at the time: "It cost a…

The thing about humans is we are quite terrible at keeping a steady beat without prompts, despite the metronome inside our chest keeping us alive. Tell someone to tap their desk every 0.6 seconds for…

As Juliet once said in Romeo and Juliet: "What's in a name? That which we call a Jet, by any other word would rock as sweetly." It's true that if a band is good enough, their band name doesn't matter…