AC/DC: Australia has Punk Rock bands too, y'know
Interview by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, April 1975
LADEES AND GENTLEMEN, introducing one of the few bands in Australia that deserves the tag of a real street punk band...putcha fists together in ominous slow ...

Radio Birdman: Balmain Town Hall, Sydney
Live Review by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, January 1976
GOD I WISH the Top 40 sounded like the Radio's 'Smith and Wesson' or 'There's Gonna Be A New Race...' or 'Maelstrom'. But it doesn't. And ...

AC/DC: The Dirtiest Story Ever Told
Profile and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, August 1976
An everyday story of rape, pillage, runny noses, drunken orgies, broken wind, assaults on and by police, sweat-soaked Luncheon Vouchers, and the 279-pound lady who reckoned ...

The Saints: I'm Stranded
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, May 1977
HEY! THIS IS a nice surprise! Almost out of nowhere comes this rip-snorter of an album when all we'd had from The Saints before was their ...

The Sports: The Whisky, Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, February 1980
LITTLE RIVER Band, Livvy Newton-John, Sherbet. Is it really any wonder people think that Australian rock is something kangaroos jump over (or in the case of ...

Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons: Return of the Maltese Falcon
Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, September 1980
THE OTHER WEEK top Oz band Jo Jo Zep And The Falcons broke the house record at Hammersmith's Clarendon Hotel when they played their first ever ...

Died Pretty
Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, New York Review Of Records, June 1990
'WE SET out to write spirited music that will move people,' says Ronald Pino, lead singer and lyricist of Died Pretty, Australia's most original export since ...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Henry's Dream (Mute)
Review by Gavin Martin, NME, January 1992
HAVING LONG sneered and sped past the 'Buffoon Goth' pigeonhole reserved for him when he first arrived on these shores, the Nick Cave who thrives on ...

INXS: Vast
Report and Interview by Andy Gill, Q, June 1992
THE CONCERT FOR LIFE: INXS, CROWDED HOUSE, DIESEL, JENNY MORRIS, RATCAT, YOTHU YINDI, DEF FX – CENTENNIAL PARK, SYDNEY, March 28, 1992 ...

INXS: Welcome To Wherever You Are
Review by David Sinclair, Q, September 1992
NOW 15 years old, INXS have made remarkably little go a long way. ...

The Triffids' David McComb
Interview by Toby Creswell, Juice, 1994
THE DAVID MCCOMB who left Perth with his band the Triffids was still a very young man. Even at those first gigs in the East, more ...

Frente!: Marvin the Album
Review by Bill Wasserzieher, The Bob, November 1994
THE MOST VIOLENT electrical storm documented in this century occurred Oct. 31, 1989, in the vicinity of Grovers Mill, New Jersey, where more than 200 lightning ...

The Man Who Fell To Surf: Icehouse's Iva Davies
Book Excerpt by Antonella Gambotto, An Instinct For The Kill, 1997
IVA DAVIES not despicable or brutal or awful or poisonous or bizarre, but he is tense. Extremely tense. his laughter rings out like a gunshot – ...

Michael Hutchence 1960-1997
Obituary by Toby Creswell, Rolling Stone (Australia), December 1997
Whether it was an old head injury, the wrong medication or the loneliness that caused his untimely death, Michael Hutchence was an international superstar, an internationally ...

Kasey Chambers
Interview by Debbie Kruger, Performing Songwriter, December 2000
IT'S A LINE so stark in its humility that it has some American reviewers looking for irony and missing the point ...

Powderfinger: Band Of The Year
Interview by Jeff Apter, Rolling Stone (Australia), April 2001
POWDERFINGER ARE THE Rolling Stone 2000 Music Award heroes. The results are in and thousands of you voted for them. Powderfinger are Band Of The Year, ...

Do The Pop! The Australian Garage Rock Sound 1976-87 (Shock)
Sleevenotes by Dave Laing (Australia), Shock, 2002
Come on baby it's time to move
You been saying there's nothing to do
Don't be afraid of bustin' out of your cage
Gonna cruise around gonna burn up ...

Getting Down & Dirty Three: Live at Lee’s Palace, Toronto
Live Review by Rick McGrath, Ojo, April 2003
WENT OUT TO Lee's Palace on a Sunday nite, of all nites... my buddy Pipes said some wacky auzzie group, called the Dirty Three, were in ...

The Saints: All Times Through Paradise (EMI)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004
4-CD box set of bolshy Ozpunks' three late '70s albums and unreleased Live in London set from late '77, plus numerous out/alternate takes, B-sides and EP ...

The Lyre of Cave: An Interview
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, September 2004
RBP: Could you have imagined, all those years ago, that you’d have this amazingly even and consistent ...

"I Wasn't Sid Vicious": Nick Cave
Interview by Stephen Dalton, The Times, September 2004
FOR A HIGH-MINDED musical elder statesman like Nick Cave, cultural credibility comes in many forms. The 47-year-old Australian export has hosted London's Meltdown festival, been profiled ...

The Yin and Yang of the Go-Betweens
Live Review by Steven R Rosen, LA CityBeat, June 2005
LIVE, THE GO-BETWEENS may just be the most perfectly balanced rock band around. And it's nice to have a rare chance to witness it. Last Saturday ...

Silverchair
Book Excerpt by Jeff Apter, A New Tomorrow, 2006
While making their fourth album, 2002's critics' favourite Diorama, Australian trio Silverchair underwent a creative makeover, endured tension with their label Atlantic, cemented a bond with ...

Rowland S Howard: Storm Und Twang – The Prophet Of St Kilda
Interview by Jenny Valentish, Australian Guitar, May 2006
From icy reverb to noirish twang, Jenny Valentish pays tribute to Australia's most influential guitar fiend, Rowland S Howard... ...

Goodbye Fireboy: Grant McLennan 1958 - 2006
Obituary by Toby Creswell, Rock's Backpages, May 2006
GRANT MCLENNAN, who died in his sleep on MAY 6, 2006, was one of the outstanding songwriters of his generation. He was acknowledged an artist of ...

High Priests Of The Old Order: The Church
Interview by Jenny Valentish, The Australian Times, June 2006
"MY BIGGEST FEAR in the world would be if I lost my Australian citizenship and had to live in England forever," Steve Kilbey shudders. Despite being ...

Divine Intervention: The Sleepy Jackson
Interview by Jenny Valentish, The Australian Times, June 2006
LUKE STEELE LEAPS from the stage and hits the dance floor running, executing some neat Prince slides and spins and grinning at the assembled journos like ...

The Triffids: Still Growing Strong
Interview by Jenny Valentish, Australian Guitar, September 2006
Evil Graham Lee brought a ripe swoon to The Triffids' music with his pedal steel guitar. Now, seventeen years after their split, he's witnessing a cult-like ...

Be My Guru: Back to Bedrock with Stoneage Romeos the Hoodoo Gurus
Retrospective and Interview by Fred Mills, Harp, January 2007
THANKSGIVING EVE, 1984: Your future Harp correspondent is front and center at a packed Charlotte, NC, punk club, literally hanging on to the monitor of Hoodoo ...

Grinderman: Grinderman
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, April 2007
THE NEW NAME - the alter ego, the Bad Seeds doppelganger - sounds like some hideous Saw-style horror flick. Nick Cave recasts The Hitcher in the ...

Radio Birdman: Birds of a Feather Rock Together
Retrospective and Interview by Anthony O'Grady, Sydney Morning Herald, July 2007
THERE ARE two general categories of musicians in Halls of Fame – the supremely successful sellers of concerts and records, and those who pave the way ...