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Baker Boy grateful for OAM win, but mourns ‘Invasion Day’ Baker Boy has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for his service to the performing arts as a musician and a singer. Celebrity by WILL ZWAR Premium Content Subscriber only DANZAL Baker, known onstage as Baker Boy, has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for his service to the performing arts as a musician and a singer. However, he wont be celebrating the honour t...

That’s a wrap! The Hottest 100 of 2020 is now locked into the countdown history books. But is it really all over if we haven’t pored over all the weird facts and figures from your fave songs from The Very Weird, No Good Year that was? Glass Animals took out the #1 spot and there’s a neat inforgraphic but as is annual tradition, it’s time to pick over all the statistics and trivia in detail. Let’s do it! 66 songs in the countdown came from Australian artists. That’s tied with 2016 ...

Following Glass Animals topping the Hottest 100, we’ve now counted down the other hundred hottest songs of 2020.  The Hottest 200 is the countdown for those wondering ‘where the heck did my other votes go!?’ and the artist who just missed making the main event? None other than Middle Kids.  The Sydney trio’s barrelling ‘R U 4 Me?’ – the lead single from their forthcoming album Today We’re The Greatest – came in at #101.  FireFox NVDA users - To access the following c...

Wedding of the Week: It was so magical and perfect A CUH nurse, Marion ODriscoll from Leap, married Stephen ODonovan from Clonakilty on New Years Day BY THEIR SIDE: The bridal party included Marion’s sisters Bernadette and Michelle and friend Rita O’Donovan. Pictures: Dominic Dunne Elaine Duggan “BEING surrounded by so many loved ones for the whole day was magical, especially after the year we have all had.” So said bride Marion O’Driscoll, who wed Stephen O’Donovan on New Year’s...

22.01.2021 Opinion: The lack of live music in 2020 will have a sizeable impact on this year’s Hottest 100 G Flip and Tame Impala Words by Tom Williams Without live music to draw upon, Aussie artists promoted their hits online in 2020. Hottest 100 countdowns usually allow fans to relive memories from gigs the previous year. Each song might invoke a different night, new friend made or unforgettable moment from the 12 months just gone. Whether it’s a triumphant singalong, a...

Thanks for signing up! There is truly  nothing better on the planet than experiencing live music. There’s a certain magic that dances in the air at every gig that simply cannot be replicated in the outside world. It’s the ultimate escape from it all, and since 2020 wasn’t exactly fertile ground for live events, I know I’m not alone in saying that I’m absolutely fiending for a festival right now. There’s honestly nothing I want more in the world than to have my ears blown out by a ...

These Are The 13 Artists Who Will Shape Australian Music In 2021 Get across them now so you can say you liked them before they blew up. We missed you too. Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter, so you always know where to find us. When it came time to make this list last year, we were feeling pretty good about 2020. Summer festivals and sideshows were plentiful, a host of big tours shimmered on the horizon and Australian music sounded as good as ever. Needless to sa...

READING Melbourne Music Week expands program, including gig series curated by The Tote, The Old Bar and more Melbourne Music Week expands program, including gig series curated by The Tote, The Old Bar and more Cash Savage - image by Naomi Lee Beveridge Words by Tom Parker The festival runs until February 28. Melbourne Music Week has been a whole lot different in 2020/21 compared to past years. Extending across three months, the festival has played an important pa...

From local indie faves to global pop superstars - theres so much good stuff coming our way. We missed you too. Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter, so you always know where to find us. Even the most gifted psychics would have had a rotten time predicting the clusterfuck that was 2020. It was a year marked by chaos and uncertainty — and the music industry felt it keenly. Live music and tours disappeared, and are still largely off the table, leaving labels and prom...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Poems From the Edge of Extinction (Part 2) In part 2 we look at examples in Patwa/Jamaican Creole and Yolngu Matha. If youve never heard of these languages, read on!   Welcome to part 2 of our blog on poetry in endangered and lesser-known languages in collaboration with our European Stud...