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They’d released their debut album Boys & Girls the previous year to widespread acclaim - it scored them three Grammy nominations, earned them the #39 spot in the Hottest 100 for the single Hold On, and took them around the world. The Athens, Alabama 4-piece played across the country with the Big Day Out, and the triple j live music team captured this electrifying sideshow at Melbourne’s Forum Theatre. Frontwoman and guitarist Brittany Howard is such a charismatic performer - you can hear ...

Django Django are back with album number 4: Glowing in the Dark - which follows from a series of records that has built them a huge fanbase here in Australia. The album was released last Friday, and sees the group collaborate with a range of artists including Charlotte Gainsbourg and Braulio Amadio. Vinny Neff , singer and guitarist from Django Django joined Tim Shiel on Arvos from his pad first thing in the morning in the middle of the London Lockdown.

The Triffids never enjoyed the same mainstream success as many of their peers, but there are few bands in this country who have been as acclaimed and influential. Their evocative songs were driven by the perfect poetry of David McComb, who wrote about Australia with a kind of desolate beauty that has never truly been matched. Behind him was a band whose music painted pictures almost as vivid as their frontmans words. The weeping steel guitars of Evil Graham Lee, the spacious textures added by J...

This week is the 10th anniversary of PJ Harveys eighth album Let England Shake. Drawing on stories of war for lyrical and musical inspiration, the record was a change in direction which earned the acclaimed UK artist her second Mercury Music Prize. She toured the album to our shores at the start of 2012, and the triple j live music team captured this spectacular show at the State Theatre in Sydney as part of Sydney Festival. Featuring long-time collaborators John Parish and Jean-Marc Butty,...

Lily Allens career exploded in the 2000s, her name was on every music lovers lips. As if her infectious indie pop music wasnt enough to get us chattering, she also had an outspoken nature that we loved just as much as the UK tabloids did. Her 2006 debut album Alright, Still, with its smash hits Smile and LDN, was critically acclaimed across the board and sold tons, going Platinum here in Australia. Allen has since evolved and matured artistically but hasnt lost the edge that makes her music an...