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NSW’s boutique Festival of the Sun has enjoyed its fastest sell-out to date, with all 3,000 tickets bought in record time. According to Promoter Scott Mesiti, 85% of the tickets went within weeks of…

Sam Cromack | Ball Park Music Radiohead - Kid A It is partly due to the fact that it is an excellent record, but also largely due to the context in which it occurred. Radiohead had finished touring…

Justin Timberlake TKO SME Today, JT unleashed the second half of his 20/20 Experience set, and whereas the first volume was filled with difficult, twisting tunes that often breached the six-minute…

by Wayne Coyne I was very lucky that my older brothers all listened to The Beatles and stuff like that. The defining record that I can say still affects me now and affected me when I was eight years…

KE$ha | Artist Beastie Boys | License To Ill I remember very specifically hearing this for the first time. I love their irreverence, and they’re funny as fuck - they don’t give a fuck. It’s very much…

Marty Smiley | Channel [V] Presenter Michael Jackson - HIStory I was too young to watch and hear MJ’s rise to world domination as the King of Pop. So HIStory, when I was ten years old, was the best…

Ariana Grande Right There ft. Big Sean REP/UMA This track is a throwback to that addictive ’90s R’n’B sound that seems to be permeating radio more and more these days - a good sign indeed, both…

Zan Rowe | Triple J Fugazi - Red Medicine As a teenager, a heap of my musical discoveries came from my best friend’s big sister. Her and her mates steadily built a collection of, up until then,…

Mark Holden | Songwriter Blue - Joni Mitchell Songs are like tattoos. These songs are etched into my soul. I stumbled on the blue cover art in a Canberra record store in 1970 on a house-swap vacation…

Darren Hayes | Artist Prince - Purple Rain The year was 1984 and the album that changed my life was Purple Rain by Prince and the Revolution. To put things into context, this is the year of FM stereo…

Paul McCartney dropped the Revolver-esque New yesterday, and it sent us down a worm-hole of all-Macca-all-the-time. To celebrate the prospect of an album full of new McCartney material (out October…

Back in 1968, a man named Charles Manson, like a great deal of the youth at the time, felt an affinity with the music of popular Liverpool beat group The Beatles. Whereas a lot of people related to…