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The March 7 edition

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Peachy keen: Shaylee Curnow, aka Peach PRC, is already one of Australia’s most successful pop musicians. Now comes her debut album.

After years of anticipation, the time is ripe for Peach PRC

The former stripper-turned-TikTok sensation goes off with the fairies on her debut album.

  • Jules LeFevre
MAY-A, aka Sydney artist Maya Cumming, assembled a team of rock whisperers for her new album, including Paramore producer Carlos de la Garza.

Homegrown hits: The best Australian music to hear this month

A monthly spotlight on our favourite new albums, EPs, singles and videos from local musicians.

  • Jules LeFevre, Robert Moran and Nick Buckley
Keli Holiday, aka Adam Hyde: “Words do have weight online if you’re constantly battered with them.”

Keli Holiday just wants to write the ‘greatest song’. Will online haters let him?

With a hit single and a high-profile relationship, the Peking Duk star has become a solo smash. Can he handle the heat?

  • Jules LeFevre
Amy Taylor has become one of the most recognisable women in rock.

How Amyl and the Sniffers star found herself in a legal stoush with a US photographer

She’s one of the most famous women in rock right now, but Amy Taylor has found herself in a kind of spotlight she’d rather have avoided.

  • Karl Quinn
Chrissy Amphlett in Sydney 2006.

Chrissy Amphlett wrote a show in which she was a crow. Years after her death, her vision lives on

Sheridan Harbridge has created the show the late Divinyls legend never got to make.

  • John Shand
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Sydney artist MUNGMUNG.

Homegrown hits: The best Australian music to hear this month

A monthly spotlight on our favourite new albums, EPs, singles and videos from local musicians.

  • Nick Buckley and Robert Moran
Keli Holiday performing at the 2025 ARIA Awards in Sydney in November.

Why this favourite to win the Hottest 100 has sparked hostility online

Campaigning for triple j’s Hottest 100 is widespread, but few artists have been scrutinised as intensely for it as Keli Holiday, whose song Dancing2 is favourite to win Saturday’s countdown.

  • Annabel Ross
Nailing it: Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst performing with the band at The Tower Theatre in Philadelphia in 1988.

Midnight Oil’s Rob Hirst changed everything. I wanted to play the drums just like him

To witness Rob Hirst in full flight behind his drum kit, a smile from ear to ear, arms and legs furiously pumping, was nothing short of exhilarating.

  • Martin Boulton
Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst.

‘Ferocious and relentless’ Midnight Oil drummer Rob Hirst was band’s power and passion

The late rock legend penned some of Midnight Oil’s most successful songs from Power and the Passion to Beds are Burning and Dead Heart.

  • Glenn A. Baker