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Bob Dylan
Happy 80th birthday to the man who gets you closer to the meaning of life than any other bastard since Shakespeare
Last year I wrote to Bob Dylan asking if I could interview him on a tape to be kept under lock and key for 50 years.
- by Peter FitzSimons
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Found Heads review: Ambidextrous bending of the possible
Found Heads can make hip-hop beats spawn entirely extemporised compositions.
- by John Shand
Ensemble return marks a musical high kick
The Australia Ensemble has made a spirited return to the live stage after a COVID-enforced sabbatical.
- by Peter Mccallum
Music From the Home Front returns with stellar 2021 line-up
Mushroom founder Michael Gudinski’s legacy continues with a second Music From the Home Front concert.
- by Martin Boulton
Opinion
Music festivals
Byron Bluesfest raises questions: How to save our live music scene?
What can we do to help the live music industry?
- by Helen Pitt
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Workplace safety
Senior Sony Music executive sacked after investigation finds bullying, harassment
Sony Music Australia’s vice-president of commercial music Tony Glover has been fired after multiple staff made complaints about his behaviour.
- by Nathanael Cooper
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Review
Jack River brings power and passion to Opera House’s first gig back
Holly Rankin had large ambitions for this night, which is admirable, and she pretty much pulled it off, which is impressive.
- by Bernard Zuel
DMX 'X Gon' Give It To Ya' official music video
Watch the official music video to DMX's song 'X Gon' Give It To Ya'.
DMX 'Party (Up In Here)' official music video
Watch the official music video to DMX's song 'Party (Up In Here)'.
DMX 'Ruff Ryders' Anthem' official music video
Watch the official music video to DMX's song 'Ruff Ryders' Anthem'.
Grammy-nominated rapper DMX dies, aged 50
DMX, whose real name was Earl Simmons, died after suffering a “catastrophic cardiac arrest,” according to the hospital in New York where he died.
- by Jonathan Landrum jnr and Jennifer Peltz