The poetry of aja monet and Thomas Meadowcroft on composing for sound effects and orchestra
"I think if we saw every conversation as music, we would drastically shift the course of history." So says the poet and performer aja monet....
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James Ellis Ford made a Mercury Prize nominated record in a chemotherapy ward
James Ellis Ford is better known as James Ford, producer for artists like Pulp, Arctic Monkeys, Florence and the Machine and Fontaines D.C....
Kate Miller-Heidke on Handel and planning for the apocalypse
Kate Miller-Heidke's new album, the first since 2020's Child In Reverse a a very theatrical and sometimes funny slice of gothic-folk called...
Grace Cummings' Bloodhorse! and the legacy of Vivaldi's star orphan
Grace Cummings ’ latest album is called Bloodhorse! and it's fantastic and fantastically strange. Her ragged, bluesy voice floats through a...
Tom Service on the classical music that shapes us
Can you tell the history of the world in fifty pieces of music? No, but BBC Radio 3 presenter and writer Tom Service has given it a red hot...
The travelling community of the Grateful Dead, Don Walker's Love Songs, and a performance lasting 639 years
All The Grateful Dead are one of the iconic bands of the last century, not just for their music, but for their extended tours, which saw the...
The dangerous jazz life of Anita O'Day
Anita O'Day was a jazz singer who lived 'the jazz life'. She's been compared to people like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald: an incredibl...
William Basinski hosts a sleepover, Will Swenson plays Neil Diamond, and vale Glen Hansard
American composer William Basinski's very long and much celebrated avant-garde electronic work The Disintegration Loops was born from the gr...
Music Now & Then: Liza Lim
The latest in our Music Now & Then series with composer Liza Lim, who first appeared on The Music Show in its early years when she was in he...
Music for winter stillness and electromagnetic storms
The Veils frontman Finn Andrews joins Andy to talk about love, death, and Sinead O'Connor, all features of their latest and aptly named albu...
Middle of the Air: The Music Show at Sydney Writers' Festival
Ziggy Ramo , Leah Senior , and Kate Fagan join Andy to talk about the art of turning poetry into song. Recorded live at the 2026 Sydney Writ...
Songs about fish, divorce, and moth DNA: Montaigne, Gin Wigmore, and Elissa Goodrich
Electropop singer, songwriter and producer Montaigne took the plunge into the world of independent music after over a decade with a big labe...
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...
"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...