ELISION Ensemble turn 40 and Rosie McDonald on The Go Twos and Nigel Lever
ELISION Ensemble began as a Melbourne new music ensemble, but have gone on to become international in both focus and reputation, building en...
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"An ecosystem for song people": 25 years of Koori Radio
Guringai writer and creator Kaylene Langford is behind the mic for NAIDOC Week, with a celebration of Koori Radio for its 25th anniversary....
Cover Story: Can’t Buy Me Love
It’s almost impossible to choose a Beatles song for Cover Story (we’ve been putting it off for three series). The band’s productivity in 196...
Stephen Foster: The bicentenary of the father of American music
Stephen Foster's songs remain among the best known music to come out of the United States, with classics like Oh! Susannah, Hard Times (Come...
Cover Story: Never Tear Us Apart
Never Tear Us Apart began its life as a bluesy demo by INXS’s keyboardist and songwriter Andrew Farris. Frontman Michael Hutchence gave it l...
Embracing the choir: Alina Pash returns to Ukraine and Kristina Olsen takes up choral composition
Alina Pash was last on the show back in 2021, before the Russian invasion of her country began. At that point, Pash said that she wanted to...
Cover Story: Wonderwall
A love song, a football anthem, and a weapon of war for men with acoustic guitars: Noel Gallagher said he thought Wonderwall was an annoying...
A solo debut from Trials and Isobel D'Cruz Barnes is working In Shadows
As one-half of A.B. Original, Trials was responsible for one of the key moments in Australian hip-hop over the last decade with the album Re...
Cover Story: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
Cover Story makes a long overdue visit to the songwriting of Carole King, who with her then-husband Gerry Goffin wrote Will You Still Love M...
David Mills' glamour and despair and Lawrence Power shines a light on British music
Comedian David Mills takes his acerbic humour into the world of cabaret for this year's Adelaide Cabaret Festival. He joins Andy to talk abo...
Different versions of Daniel Avery and clipping's experimental approach to hip-hop
Daniel Avery has been filling dancefloors around the world for more than a decade, both as a dj and with his own critically acclaimed record...
Cover Story: Jolene
Every great song gets covered. Sometimes beautifully, sometimes badly, and sometimes by people who clearly should have known better. Cover S...
Miles Davis: a centenary
A portrait of the legendary trumpeter Miles Davis on his centenary. We hear how Miles not only changed music but also the lives of those he...
A tribute to Sonny Rollins, Mahalia Barnes sings The Rose, and Cass McCombs live in the studio
We pay tribute to Sonny Rollins, who died this week at the age of 95. Rollins played with many of the greats of jazz, but was himself someth...
Hilary Geddes' Redleaf and Kae Tempest's Self Titled
Hilary Geddes is a guitarist of understated virtuosity, and a composer of music that takes jazz into a rolling, lush, environmental register...
Barry Conyngham's rarely performed classic & Mogwai and Tortoise both celebrate new music and big anniversaries
Barry Conyngham’s piece Ice Carving isn’t performed very often, and almost never in its intended configuration - a solo violinist surrounded...
Folk fixtures: Judy Small's Swansongs, and the National Folk Festival at 60
Judy Small is a fixture of the Australian folk scene, a writer and performer of songs about politics and people. She joins Andy to recap the...
Xiu Xiu take on Eraserhead and Pinchgut Opera's first murder
Xiu Xiu has been a leading figure in American avant-pop for more than two decades: combining abrasive noise and extremely dark subject matte...
The mystery and music of Connie Converse
American Singer-songwriter Connie Converse would be hard enough to pigeonhole had she not disappeared without a trace in 1974. She wrote fol...
Raven Chacon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Voiceless Mass and Cam Butler takes on the grand organ
Voiceless Mass, by Raven Chacon, can be performed in 'any space of worship with high ceilings and pipe organ' and plays with the amplifying...