Interviews

On the 27th of April, the film Agent Elite has its red carpet premiere at the Gold Coast Film Festival.  Shot on the coast and featuring some excellent local talent, […]

So, a CD arrives in the mail and the first thing the journalist does is reach for the band’s press release or band ‘bio’. You’d be amazed at how generic,

Ten years after it was first released on CD, The Beatles have now released Let It Be… Naked digitally Here’s the story of how the album came together. Paul McCartney

In early December Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band were coming towards the end of a sensational run of dates that had taken them around America, and a large

  DA: David Aukin, producer SB: Simon Bowles, production designer OC: Olivia Colman, actress (plays the Queen of England, Elizabeth, in film) LL: Laura Linney, actress (plays Daisy in film)

One of TOM’s favourite homegrown bands is new outfit, The Casuarinas. They haven’t been around for long in this guise: but they have a lot of history under their collective

   2011 was a watershed year for The Joy Formidable. The trio, made up of Ritzy Bryan (lead vocals, guitars), Rhydian Dafydd (bass, backing vocals) and Matt Thomas (drums, percussion)

Michael Altman (Director – American Songwriter) “He’s lived as a record executive and a hit songwriter, a truck driver and a logger, a fruit picker, a migrant worker…he’s a philosopher

Before Rick Astley plays in Brisbane for the first time since 1989, he talks with Heidi Maier about being a 1980s pop phenomenon, abandoning music for fatherhood and what he

As Emmylou Harris tours Australia for the first time in over a decade, she speaks to Heidi Maier about life, loss and songwriting. THOUGH revered alt-country and alt-folk singer/songwriter Emmylou

For Sydney-born, Melbourne-based singer, songwriter and visual artist Bertie Blackman, the boundaries between her self and the songs she writes are, she says, “mostly pretty blurred and intangible.” Speaking about

Sarah Blasko returns with her fourth studio album “I Awake”. Much of the album was written by Blasko as she relcated to Brighton n the UK. Like its’ predecessor, As

In the two decades since American singer/songwriter Tori Amos released her now seminal debut, Little Earthquakes, she has become one of the most important and innovative artists of her generation.

Alexander Gow of Oh Mercy would like Sam George-Allen to know about the diverse influences at work in their new tunes. After four months in the United States, Oh Mercy

360 talks to Danielle Muir about the ups and downs that have led to his latest album, Falling & Flying. The album has scooped the pool in the nominations for

The Beach Boys have just finished a 50th Anniversary lap of the world. The shows in Australia were an absolute knock-out. Now they’ve left our shores EMI have dropped a

The Sunburys are back with their third album, Keep A Lid On It. Recorded with producer Jeff Lovejoy, the band are hitting the stage this Saturday night at the Beetle

For ARIA-winning Melbourne-based songstress Clare Bowditch, the journey towards happiness, both personal and professional, is one she laughingly describes as “ever evolving, always ongoing and something I reckon I’ll be

The Hawaiian-born beauty plays Maurella on True Blood, the fifth season of which is currently airing on Showcase. Here she sits down for a quick Q&A with TOM. Q: Tell us

Birdy is taking the Australian charts by storm. Here’s a background piece that gives you the information you need on where Birdy came from and how her album was made. Birdy

Of all the Aussie alt-rock bands that swept through in the mid-1990s, the one named after pet-food on a shopping list would have seemed least likely for longevity. But nearly

The Triple J Unearthed competition has launched the careers of a huge range of Australian bands over the years, but the honour of the first ever Unearthed victory belongs to

Bait 3D has hit our cinemas and the intrepid Danielle Muir set out to talk to the director behind the film, Kimble Rendall, and one of the stars of the

Ballarat indie-dance collective Gold Fields have had a hectic year following the release of their first EP, with an American tour behind them and a debut album almost ready to

Alexander Gow of Oh Mercy would like Sam George-Allen to know about the diverse influences at work in their new tunes. After four months in the United States, Oh Mercy

Minx fills Liam McGinniss in on the benefits of winning the She Can DJ competition. Minx, AKA Rachel Phillips, first gained national attention when she won the She Can DJ