Music Archives

'Many years from now': Sgt Pepper's is not the album you remember

Charlie LewisJun 2, 20173 Comments

The primary appeal of Sgt Pepper has, from the very beginning, been as much about nostalgia as music.

Funky see, funky do: the story behind the most sampled drummer break in history

Charlie LewisApr 7, 20175 Comments

The complicated legacy of a modestly remunerated session musician who changed pop music forever.

Guy Rundle's Christmas carols to fill you with yuletide cheer

Guy RundleDec 23, 20165 Comments

A very Crikey Christmas.

Do pill-testing kits encourage illegal drug use?

Tamsin RoseNov 29, 20168 Comments

With summer music season upon us, the debate around pill testing has been revived. Should drug users be able to tell if they are consuming what they think they are, or does pill testing encourage drug use? Crikey intern Tamsin Rose reports.

Rundle: without arrogance, or even temper, Leonard Cohen summoned transcendence

Guy RundleNov 14, 201611 Comments

His voice was not suited to the times, at first; soon, the times remade themselves for his voice.

Bob Dylan should not have won a Nobel Prize for literature

W H ChongOct 20, 20166 Comments

If the Nobel committee wants to give out a prize for music, they need to create a category for music. Dylan's lyrics alone do not deserve a literature prize.

Music industry seeks to block non-existent KickAss piracy site

Josh TaylorJul 22, 2016

Popular torrents website Kick Ass is dead. But the Australian music industry is suing anyway.

What went wrong at <em>Mess + Noise</em>?

What went wrong at Mess + Noise?

Annie TollerAug 3, 2015

Mess + Noise covered all the music that the rest wouldn’t touch. Along the way, it provided an important early platform for some of Australia’s best music writers, writes former Mess + Noise contributor Annie Toller .