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The Bennies Highrider Apparently we’re in the midst of a ‘90s revival. Well, if there’s one thing that screams “THE NINETIES!” then it has to be ska-punk, and The Bennies do love their ska - and…

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…

Sunday February 24 Olympic Park, Sydney, NSW As the sound of guitars and distortion merged between stages and the hot steam rose of the thousands of heads at Olympic Park yesterday, it was easy to…

Wednesday February 20 Allphones Arena, Sydney, NSW The rise, breakdown and inevitable reprise of Blink-182 has been a steady one. Their first few albums were a ’must own’ for anyone who even feigned…