Poppy Reid

ARIA Award Predictions: Billy Russell, Zan Rowe, Smallzy

Sydney’s 5 Seconds Of Summer support 1D on world tour

Within six months of forming in 2011, four teens from the Western Suburbs of Sydney could count 50,000 Facebook fans, 200,000 Twitter followers and more than five million YouTube views – all despite…

Box Hill TAFE first to offer Master’s degree

Melbourne’s Box Hill TAFE has announced a Master of International Music Business course, becoming the first further education provider to do so. Although the institution has been offering Bachelor…

Live Review: Vans Warped, Sydney

Twelve years since Kevin Lyman’s skate-punk-turned-mixed-bag festival graced our shores, the legendary Vans Warped is back. After two dates in Brisbane and Coffs Harour and two broken down buses, 28…

Before the fall: EMI’s ARIAs dominance in the last decade

EMI dominated the ARIA Awards for much of the past decade, before an overseas collapse saw them folded into another multi-national. We chart EMI Australia’s ARIA dominance during the years before the…

Album Review: Bad Religion, Christmas Songs

With a cover image snapped by Gerald Walker in 1946, depicting a six-year-old Austrian boy hugging donated shoes from the Red Cross, it’s clear from the onset that this is no Christmas album doused…

Triple J’s Tom Ballard quits

Tom Ballard has quit his job as host at triple j, announcing he will focus on stand-up and sleeping. 24-year-old Ballard began his tenure with the networked station at just 17 before he began…

Billy Bragg defends Spotify in open letter

UK artist and leftist political activist Billy Bragg has come to the defense of Spotify after a slew of payment-related criticisms from artists. Artists like Placebo’s Brian Molko and Thom York have…

Bad Religion: Finding True North

In an age where more than three decades together habitually equates to a band’s brand-making, Bad Religion have maintained immediacy and a new collection of followers with each album cycle, sans…

Justin Hawkins: Out Of The Darkness

Nobody’s forgiven anybody,” laughs Justin Hawkins, reflecting on the return of The Darkness. At home in Lowestoft, Suffolk, Hawkins is in his element, his next tour is weeks from kick off and the…

Josh Pyke: Leeward

“It’s disappointing, I try to make myself not care about chart positions and stuff like that, but I think, you know - I was really keen to try and have all top five albums.” Earlier this month Josh…

Track-by-Track: Dallas Green on The Hurry and The Harm

Dallas Green takes us through his just-released fourth LP track-by-track, citing the impact the disbanding of Alexisonfire had on it, why it’s so self-effacing and dark, and why a track originally…