Features

From paddle steamer gigs, to outback stages and desert light shows, we've curated a selection of Australia's most unique regional festival experiences.

Thirty years after Belle and Sebastian made a masterpiece from the wreckage of their singer’s twenties, they are playing it front to back. Its author talks about the illness that emptied his life, the piano that refilled it, and why music and God arrived together.

With the playlist Friday Finds: This Week’s Best New Music, The Music’s team gathers the best new songs you need to hear every Friday. Here are our picks released this week, 4 September 2026.

Bob Evans (or Kevin Mitchell, if you prefer) looks back at 'Suburban Songbook', working with Brad Jones in Nashville, and breaking free from creative limits 20 years on.

As erstwhile North Queensland publication The Place joins The Music’s street press archives, founder and publisher Daniel Sorenson reflects on the magazine’s moment in the sun.

Ahead of their 50th anniversary Australian tour, The Music caught up with The Damned's Dave Vanian and Rat Scabies for a chat about memories from previous visits to Australia.

With Tupac’s killer finally unmasked, the spotlight returns to music's most haunting unsolved deaths, ranging from local legends to global icons.

Gippsland’s Ocean Sleeper discuss their new album Peace When I’m Dead, playing their largest headline shows yet and how the band is much bigger than they could have ever imagined.

Choreographer, creative director, dancer, and founder of The Aux, Georgia Kidd, has written an op-ed for The Music about the connection between choreography and music, arguing that the two practices should be joined rather than separate.

It turns out that Tom Hardy’s not the only movie star with a music side hustle, in fact, it's far more common than you might think for actors and actresses to pick up the mic.

From melted corsets to shared moodboards: Go behind the scenes of Danielle Spencer's new album 'Regenerate' with director Tim Madden and stylist Fleur Egan.