Poppy Reid

Tomorrow, all eyes will be on Dream On, Dreamer when sophomore record Loveless hits the ARIA chart. In the past ten months their label mates Buried In Verona, Amity Affliction and Northlane dropped…

Five years ago Funeral For A Friend left a bad taste in our mouths. A year earlier they’d returned from a taxing three-and-a-half year tour in support of 2005 sophomore LP Hours and 2007’s Tales…

After seven years trawling the nation with blistering metal and the type of misshapen lyrics that make your room spin, Sydney’s Thy Art Is Murder are finally turning the necessary heads. Last year,…

“If you party, it’s hard, it’s really hard. I mean these guys have fun, there’s plenty of that going on. You can walk around all day long getting yourself into trouble. But I don’t.” Joey Belladonna…

Forced to downsize in December 2010 after founding brothers Zac and Josh Farro made a fiery exit, Paramore have emerged after two years restless, experimental and more driven than ever. Frontwoman…

Vic Fuentes is an accidental scene hero with a well-documented past: he’s soundtracked the beat of broken hearts and practically written his own autobiography over three albums. Along with his band…

It’s almost 1am and minus four degrees in Glasgow, and Brian McFadden is standing outside a pub, glass of wine in hand, relaying his next career move to become the antithesis of everything he’s ever…

Nobody’s forgiven anybody,” laughs Justin Hawkins, reflecting on the return of The Darkness. At home in Lowestoft, Suffolk, Hawkins is in his element, his next tour is weeks from kick off and the…

In an age where more than three decades together habitually equates to a band’s brand-making, Bad Religion have maintained immediacy and a new collection of followers with each album cycle, sans…

UK artist and leftist political activist Billy Bragg has come to the defense of Spotify after a slew of payment-related criticisms from artists. Artists like Placebo’s Brian Molko and Thom York have…

Tom Ballard has quit his job as host at triple j, announcing he will focus on stand-up and sleeping. 24-year-old Ballard began his tenure with the networked station at just 17 before he began…

EMI dominated the ARIA Awards for much of the past decade, before an overseas collapse saw them folded into another multi-national. We chart EMI Australia’s ARIA dominance during the years before the…