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Need some new music? These 20 albums are some of the best of the year so far

There's more new music than ever and that can be overwhelming. Here's a cheat sheet to 20 albums from this year that are worth your time.

Published: 27 Jun 2024Thu 27 Jun 2024 at 7:22pmTopic: ABC News

When The Bear is firing on all burners, it offers the finest soundtrack in contemporary television

The Bear has a reputation for having TV's best soundtrack. But does season three run the risk of repeating itself?

Art for TV series The Bear showing chefs Carmen and Syd emerging from kitchen doors where we see the cast

Published: WedWed 3 Jul 2024 at 11:28pmTopic: ABC News

Johnny Cash and Megan Thee Stallion have two of this week's best albums

This week's listening recommendations are eclectic, to say the least, but well worth your time.

A naked Megan Thee Stallion emerges from a human-sized egg, next to a black and white photo of Johnny Cash with a guitar.

Published: TueTue 2 Jul 2024 at 9:00pmTopic: ABC News

Music Reads

The incredible Yard Act are coming back to Australia this year

The UK indie rockers return on the back of their brilliant second album Where's My Utopia?

Four men from UK band Yard Act in white studio. One man holds a telephone to his ear.

Published: TueTue 2 Jul 2024 at 12:00am

Believe the hype: Public Enemy will return to Australia this October

The incomparable Public Enemy return to Australia for the first time in far too long to play six massive shows around the country.

Flava Flav and Chuck D from rap group Public Enemy before a white background,

Published: 25 Jun 2024Tue 25 Jun 2024 at 9:00pm

Caloundra Music Festival cancelled for good as Council pull funding for event

Sunshine Coast Council confirm they will no longer fund the festival, which has been a favourite for music lovers since 2007.

a crowd of people watch an artist perform on stage at night

Published: 25 Jun 2024Tue 25 Jun 2024 at 4:30am

'What a wild ride': Splendour in the Grass co-founder exits company she helped create

The co-founder of iconic music festival Splendour In The Grass and co-CEO of the influential Secret Sounds group, Jessica Ducrou has announced her departure from the company she helped create eight years ago.

Press shot of Australian music industry figure Jessica Ducrou with backdrop of Splendour In The Grass festival at night

Published: 21 Jun 2024Fri 21 Jun 2024 at 1:45am

The J Files

2023: The Year That Was

2023 had moments for huge celebrations - we were gripped by Matildas fever, celebrated the 50th anniversary since hip hop began its ascent to dominance, saw technology make the impossible possible and heard more great albums than we can count.

A collage of artists who had big years in 2023

Duration: 1 hour

Published: 7 Dec 2023Thu 7 Dec 2023 at 7:00am

DJ Shadow

DJ Shadow (Josh Davis) changed the game of instrumental hip hop in the 1990s. An early signee of British label Mo' Wax, his debut album Endtroducing…..

Duration: 1 hour

Published: 30 Nov 2023Thu 30 Nov 2023 at 6:00am

Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John is one of the best selling artists of all time. Across a six-decade career that spanned music, stage, screen and health advocacy, she firmly embedded herself in our hearts.

Duration: 1 hour

Published: 23 Nov 2023Thu 23 Nov 2023 at 6:00am

Briggs

We’re handing the mic to Yorta Yorta rapper and Double J's Australian Artist of the Year winner Briggs. Adam Briggs has carved out such an important legacy in Australian music.

Duration: 1 hour

Published: 16 Nov 2023Thu 16 Nov 2023 at 6:00am

New Music

Portishead's Beth Gibbons shares 'Floating On A Moment', first single of debut solo album

The first taste of the influential vocalist's Lives Outgrown, an album reflecting on "motherhood, anxiety, menopause [and] mortality."

Published: 7 Feb 2024Wed 7 Feb 2024 at 9:30pm

Crowded House are back! Hear their new single 'Oh Hi'

'Oh Hi' is the first new music we've heard from Crowded House since their 12th album Dreamers Are Waiting.

Black and white image of rock band Crowded House standing together in an auditorium with ornate ceilings

Published: 8 Feb 2024Thu 8 Feb 2024 at 11:00am

Brittany Howard's 'What Now' is an agitated funk cut from her new solo album

'What Now' is the title track to the former Alabama Shakes frontwoman's second solo album.

Black and white photo of Brittany Howard wearing kaleidoscopic goggles with a mirror image

Published: 2 Nov 2023Thu 2 Nov 2023 at 3:00am

Holy Holy's 'This Time' ft. Tasman Keith is unlike anything either artist has done before

A genre-warping highlight from Holy Holy's latest creative leap, aka LP#5 Cellophane, with help from Bowraville's own Tasman Keith.

A collage of Holy Holy's Tim Carroll and Oscar Dawson and Tasman Keith

Published: 20 Oct 2023Fri 20 Oct 2023 at 5:45am

Classic Albums

NoFX - Punk in Drublic

NOFX, building the mould that others would try to break

Album cover for NOFX's 'Punk in Drublic'

Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds

Published: MonMon 1 Jul 2024 at 8:00am

Prince - Purple Rain

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called "life"

Album cover for Prince's 'Purple Rain', featuring Prince wearing a purple suit and sitting on a motorbike

Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds

Published: 24 Jun 2024Mon 24 Jun 2024 at 8:00am

Ball Park Music - Puddinghead

An album cocktail of everything Ball Park Music fans have come to adore about the band

Album cover of Ball Park Music's 'Puddinghead'. A man wearing medieval garb with an owl head and holding a giant moth.

Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds

Published: 17 Jun 2024Mon 17 Jun 2024 at 8:00am

The Supremes – Where Did Our Love Go

This week, we give it up for the greatest girl group of all time, The Supremes.

Duration: 59 minutes 58 seconds

Published: 3 Jun 2024Mon 3 Jun 2024 at 8:00am

Podcasts

Adam Liaw's songs that set it off

Who knew cooking competitions would take over Australian television? Back in 2010, the finale for the second season of MasterChef became the most watched non-sporting event of that year. And the winner? Adam Liaw.

Zan Rowe and celebrity chef Adam Liaw both wearing black standing in the hallway of triple j

Duration: 36 minutes 14 seconds

Published: 3h agoFri 5 Jul 2024 at 12:00amTopic: Take 5

#294: Hawk Tuah Girl, Lily Allen's Feet, The Bear

If you've had more questions than answers this week, you're not alone. Who is the Hawk Tuah girl, and why has Lily Allen set up an OnlyFans? For her feet? Myf and Zan are here to help, making sense of the week that was.

lily wearing a black lace top standing in front of a wall of green leaves with her hair done up high

Duration: 34 minutes 53 seconds

Published: 22h agoThu 4 Jul 2024 at 5:00amTopic: Bang On

Susan Rogers' Catalyst songs

If you don’t know Susan Rogers by name, you’ll know her work. A female producer and sound engineer in an industry dominated by men, her drive and commitment landed her side by side with Prince as his star soared.

Susan Rogers is an acclaimed engineer and professor of music

Duration: 56 minutes 35 seconds

Published: 28 Jun 2024Fri 28 Jun 2024 at 12:00amTopic: Take 5

#293: Charli XCX + Lorde, Justin Timberlake, Vogue World

Myf and Zan are back and boy howdy there's a lot to catch up on. Take 5 has been nominated for a Logie (!) and we're looking at you, Bang Fam, to nab the win. Charli XCX has invited Lorde onto a remix of a song reportedly about her.

Lorde and Charli XCX throwing peace signs

Duration: 42 minutes 20 seconds

Published: 25 Jun 2024Tue 25 Jun 2024 at 5:00amTopic: Bang On

Listen Back

Desko: FOOD

Get turbo with your weekly dose of DESKO, the disco at your desk by request.

Duration: 1 hour

Published: 2h agoFri 5 Jul 2024 at 1:00amTopic: Desko

Live Through This by Hole turns 30 plus new Boston Manor and The Warning

Smash the play button for 11 heavy, hard, loud and explosive songs that you have to turn up to 11.

Press photo of American band Hole, black and white photo of four band members sitting on a couch

Duration: 1 hour

Published: 19h agoThu 4 Jul 2024 at 8:00amTopic: Eleven

Mornings: Thursday, July 4th

Join Henry Wagons for songs that soundtrack your life and the best new releases.

Duration: 3 hours

Published: WedWed 3 Jul 2024 at 11:00pmTopic: Mornings

Dan Sultan gives flight to his landmark album Blackbird

He joins Stacy Gougoulis on Arvos to talk about how he's reimagining his 2014 album with a little help from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Duration: 10 minutes 12 seconds

Published: WedWed 3 Jul 2024 at 2:00pmTopic: Arvos

The 50 Best

The 50 best albums of 2023

These 50 works of art helped us escape, make sense of the world, and kept us thankful for those who make it.

composite image featuring dave grohl, little simz, caroline polachek, jen cloher, dan sultan, frenzal rhomb, jessie ware, rvg

Published: 12 Dec 2023Tue 12 Dec 2023 at 6:00pm

The 50 Best Debut Singles

The songs that defined careers, started movements, disrupted genres.

Published: 18 Sep 2021Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 6:55am

50 game-changing women of Australian music

The artists who shifted the needle in our local scene

Christine Anu, Alison Wonderland, Tkay Maidza, Chrissy Amphlett, Sampa The Great, Courtney Barnett, Adalita, Stella Donnelly

Published: 7 Mar 2021Sun 7 Mar 2021 at 9:00pm

The 50 most important female artists of the 90s

No matter what kinda music you were into, there were women making it with just as much class, passion and skill as their male counterparts.

Published: 15 Jun 2017Thu 15 Jun 2017 at 6:43pm

Feature Albums

DOBBY — Warrangu: River Story

Remixed birdsong. Interviews with Indigenous elders. Cinematic hip hop. You won't have another listening experience this year quite like the debut album from DOBBY.

The cover of DOBBY's debut album WARRANGU: River Story showing black and white photos of dry river beds

Published: 7h agoThu 4 Jul 2024 at 8:00pm

Hiatus Kaiyote — Love Heart Cheat Code

There's no band on earth quite like Hiatus Kaiyote.

A blue illustration of a naked figure crouching holding a serpent and wearing an elaborate headpiece

Published: SunSun 30 Jun 2024 at 8:00pm

Pond — Stung!

How does a band say fresh after 10 albums? Just ask WA faves Pond, who are on as good a form as ever on Stung!

Cover of Pond's 2024 album Stung! showing a super close-up of a flying bee against a blue sky

Published: 23 Jun 2024Sun 23 Jun 2024 at 8:00pm

Jess Cornelius — CARE/TAKING

The second solo album from the ex-Teeth & Tongue figurehead grapples intense emotional stakes with lyrical honesty and sonic ingenuity.

The artwork for Jess Cornelius' 2024 album CARE/TAKING showing a minimalist illustration of clasped hands

Published: 16 Jun 2024Sun 16 Jun 2024 at 8:30pm

Double J

Need some new music? These 20 albums are some of the best of the year so far

When The Bear is firing on all burners, it offers the finest soundtrack in contemporary television

Johnny Cash and Megan Thee Stallion have two of this week's best albums

The incredible Yard Act are coming back to Australia this year

Believe the hype: Public Enemy will return to Australia this October

Caloundra Music Festival cancelled for good as Council pull funding for event

'What a wild ride': Splendour in the Grass co-founder exits company she helped create

2023: The Year That Was

DJ Shadow

Olivia Newton-John

Briggs

Portishead's Beth Gibbons shares 'Floating On A Moment', first single of debut solo album

Crowded House are back! Hear their new single 'Oh Hi'

Brittany Howard's 'What Now' is an agitated funk cut from her new solo album

Holy Holy's 'This Time' ft. Tasman Keith is unlike anything either artist has done before

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NoFX - Punk in Drublic

Prince - Purple Rain

Ball Park Music - Puddinghead

The Supremes – Where Did Our Love Go

Adam Liaw's songs that set it off

#294: Hawk Tuah Girl, Lily Allen's Feet, The Bear

Susan Rogers' Catalyst songs

#293: Charli XCX + Lorde, Justin Timberlake, Vogue World

Desko: FOOD

Live Through This by Hole turns 30 plus new Boston Manor and The Warning

Mornings: Thursday, July 4th

Dan Sultan gives flight to his landmark album Blackbird

The 50 best albums of 2023

The 50 Best Debut Singles

50 game-changing women of Australian music

The 50 most important female artists of the 90s

DOBBY — Warrangu: River Story

Hiatus Kaiyote — Love Heart Cheat Code

Pond — Stung!

Jess Cornelius — CARE/TAKING

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