Music

Folk-rock singer-songwriter Adrianne Lenker has spent her life reaching beyond words towards the truth of the present moment.

The Cure’s Songs of a Lost World is their first album of new work for 16 years – and it’s one of their best.

In today’s music industry the real money is in live performance – and many of the biggest pop shows are sites of both auteurish experiment and genuinely inspiring spectacle.

For acclaimed Ukrainian–Australian pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk, music expresses the glory of human possibility and freedom.

Lisa Simone has long stepped out of the shadow of her famous mother, Nina Simone, but keeps her promise to continue her heritage.

In the lead-up to a NAIDOC Week concert that celebrates her groundbreaking career, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon reflects on her journey from Stolen Child to opera star.

Rejecting the cacophony of the current age, Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds listens to the silence between the notes.

The documentary Ellis Park follows musician Warren Ellis from regional Victoria, where he faces his childhood trauma, to a wildlife sanctuary in Sumatra.

The new album from Morgan Wallen, the superstar who has outsold Taylor Swift, is a lengthy ode to shirking culpability that makes for near-perfect pop.

Legends, from instrumental duo Wilson Tanner, is a rich pastoral meditation recorded in a South Australian vineyard.