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Grace Mitchell releases her debut album Daughter of The King

The Melbourne songwriter brings a decade of experience together on her first LP. After more than a decade of making music, Australian-born, American-raised singer-songwriter Grace Mitchell has finally released her…

Madonna, Patti Smith and Carole King remember Gloria Steinem: ‘The O.G. Baddie’

by Tammy Moir

Musicians pay tribute to Steinem, remembering the doors she helped open for generations of women. There are some people whose work becomes so embedded in culture that you forget there…

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New Music Radar: The Amoebas, Hotel Romeo and KOATS

by Tammy Moir

Fourteen tracks worth putting on your radar this week. There’s always something new worth finding, and this week’s New Music Radar is a pretty good reminder of that. From fuzzy…

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Brazil’s “Taylor Swift law” to change the concert experience forever

by Niamh Farrell

Three years after a fan died at Taylor Swift’s concert, Brazil has changed the rules Taylor Swift fans have done something rather extraordinary: they turned the tragedy of one concert…

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Oliver Downes finds beauty in domestic life and the mundane

by Alex Cooper

There’s so much more. Melbourne songwriter Oliver Downes has always had a knack for finding the strange beauty tucked away in ordinary life. On his third album While the Sun…

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Simran Sultana on power, pain, and dancing through it all

by Alex Cooper

Simran Sultana is done playing it safe. Simran Sultana is tired of pretending everything’s fine. Not that her music ever sounded defeated, far from it. But somewhere beneath the glossy…

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