Teen band gets breakthrough call at ARIAs
Operator Please are Daniel Johns's choice to sing a cover song
should Silverchair ever be inducted into ARIA Hall of Fame.
Critics hawkish on Eagles' new disc
IT HAS taken the Eagles 28 years to record a new studio album, but critical reaction to the disc - good, bad and distinctly ugly - took only a few hours.
Kylie wins a MIT
Kylie's comeback looks set to continue, with her adding another
award to her tally.
Message overshadows the music
"The more boobs out there the better," declared pop queen Missy Higgins during her headlining set at Legs 11,
CD deal means she's got rhythm without the blues
Making the transition from karaoke queen to dance-floor diva
required little more than a home computer and a MySpace site.
List of ARIA award winners
Winners list.
Silverchair back for night of glory
IT WAS a damn fine weekend for Newcastle's Johns boys. Footballer Andrew married on Saturday ending a tumultuous year of controversy and career retirement, while musician Daniel cleaned up last night at the ARIA awards, capping off a stunning year of career resurrection. Daniel Johns's band Silverchair, which he formed with schoolmates Chris Joannou and Ben Gillies in 1992 when they were 13-year-olds at Newcastle High, took home five ARIA trophies, including almost all the major categories of the music industry's prime awards night.
Silverchair back for night of glory
Daniel Johns cleaned up at the ARIA awards, capping off a stunning
year of career resurrection.
Tween queens pump it up
No longer just girls, the Veronicas, at 22, have decided it's time
to play grown-ups, writes Christine Sams.
Stars shine on red carpet
It was all about rock and heavy metals at the ARIA Awards tonight.
Intrigue grows as new stars pose for music industry's big night out
KATE MILLER-HEIDKE will be among Australia's hottest new acts vying for attention at the ARIA Awards tonight.
Keith dedicates ARIA to Nicole
Keith Urban has dedicated his best Country album award to wife
Nicole Kidman - "his inspiration".
The cowboy and the bluesman get funky
John Butler and Keith Urban look like the most unlikely partners at
this year's ARIA Awards.
Another Swan graces the stage, with a message
The average age was somewhere between 19 and 21 and the fashion was
skinny black jeans and an asymmetric haircut.
Brownstone cowboy
Hard-living troubadour Steve Earle finds happiness in New York
City.
Keeping it live
Four musical greats remember the good and the bad gigs over the
past 25 years in Sydney.
GIG PREVIEWS
Abby Dobson
Pop's wounded angel is back to mend hearts, her own included.
Belles Will Ring
A Blue Mountains indie pop band calls their own tune.
Dave Holland Quintet
The jazz bassist's band will be the first to test some fine-tuning
of the Opera House's acoustics.
BLOGS
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CD REVIEWS
Delta
Delta Goodrem's third album is grand, sometimes bombastic, and
built to shout its qualities at you.
Dylan
A Bob Dylan compilation will never do anything but scratch the
surface.
Yes, U
Devastations make music for unfriendly cities, maudlin member's
bars and empty singles nights.
