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Pet Shop Boys on Taylor, Beyonce and making their own ‘queer album’
More than four decades on, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are still making pop’s most transcendent music.
- by Robert Moran
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These are the gigs not to miss in May
A Jungle visit, not-so-fresh Air, an inner-city indie music festival and a couple of PNG-born singers round out the month of May.
- by James Jennings
Pop superstar Billie Eilish announces huge Australian tour
The two-time Oscar winner will return to Australia to tour her coming album.
- by Helen Pitt
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Is the ‘Troye Sivan bump’ real? This cult singer-songwriter is about to find out
The Aussie pop star sampled Jessica Pratt’s singular vocals on his last album. Now Pratt returns with her adventurous Here in the Pitch.
- by Robert Moran
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Sydney live reviews
After weeks of controversy, Blondie and Alice Cooper finally play to Sydney crowd
This all-day event had a lot to live up to but, powered by the terrific acts who actually did turn up, it didn’t disappoint.
- by George Palathingal
This album is a rare misstep for Taylor Swift, but is she too big to fail?
For the first time in a long time, critics aren’t loving a new Taylor Swift album. Does it even matter?
- by Nell Geraets
Singer Martha on what it’s like to be a Wainwright: ‘We talk, yell, cry it out or whatever’
After her revealing memoir about her famous musical family, singer Martha Wainwright brings her disarming candour to Australian stages in May.
- by John Shand
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
There ain’t no second prize, but here’s how Barnsey got a second chance
Cold Chisel’s frontman and self-confessed rock’n’roll stormtrooper is rethinking life after a near-death experience. He’s decided to rock on.
- by Peter FitzSimons
St. Vincent on Cruel Summer, Olivia Rodrigo, and her terrifying new album
Annie Clark, now a mentor of sorts to pop’s reigning stars, dives into darkness on her heavy new album, All Born Screaming.
- by Robert Moran
Australian fans stunned as Taylor Swift announces surprise second album
Just two hours after releasing her highly anticipated 11th album, Swift stunned fans who had gathered to hear her new songs by releasing a second new album.
- by Nell Geraets