Ooops: the ABC has inadvertently leaked the winner of its popular annual poll on the ABC Shop website. Look away now if you don't want to ruin your Australia Day BBQ.
Seven Ages of Rock, currently showing on ABC TV, doesn't just wallow in the glory days of the 1960s. There's some genuinely wonderful footage -- and it's not too wanky or self-important either.
The Wiggles aren't just four dorks in coloured skivvies: they're four very powerful, very rich dorks in skivvies. The band's members explain how they turned a dancing dinosaur and big red car into a multi-million-dollar empire.
Musicians should know that an encore is essential, writes Al Green concert attendee Amber Jamieson. It leaves the crowd on a high. It shouldn't matter, but let's be realistic, it does.
A trio of white knights look set to assume control of iconic Melbourne rock pub The Tote, which was scheduled to close its doors for the last time today due to a combination of liquor licensing requirements and fees.
Even evil dictators like to get funky sometimes. Believe it or not, Osama bin Laden likes the B-52s and Whitney Houston, Kim Jong-il rocks out to Eric Clapton and Muammar Gaddafi prefers the smooth crooning of Lionel Ritchie.
So we don't have Beyonce, but many Aussie R&B and pop artists have released pretty great tracks in the last few years. Do they need a thumbs up by the US market before we'll admit to loving them? asks Clem Bastow.
Let's all raise our candles to sing along to our Crikey Christmas carols, including the classic hits 'Dickheads We Have Heard On Air' and 'Oink To The World', penned by Mel Campbell and Daniel Zugna.
A song written by an Italian singer in gibberish to sound like English. Apparently this is what the English language sounds like to non-English speakers.
From Australian Idol whiz kid Lisa Mitchell, to a "choral/chant/funeral/wedding piece" by Serbian composer Goran Bregović, Crikey's music blogger Tim Dunlop names his top 20 songs of the year.
