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Groovin the Moo is the latest casualty of a festival industry in crisis. What can be done?

Groovin the Moo's cancellation is just the latest blow to an industry facing a perfect storm of struggles. What can be done to save festivals like it?

A crowd of young Groovin The Moo festival-goers raise their hands and cheer.

Published: TueTue 20 Feb 2024 at 10:34pmTopic: ABC News

Road Trippin’ with Dylan

Let Dylan Lewis take the wheel as he soundtracks some of Australia’s best road trips.

Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes

Published: 15 Feb 2024Thu 15 Feb 2024 at 1:00pmTopic: Mornings

IDLES' new album is all about love

IDLES continue to break new ground on album number five, which they describe as "an album of gratitude and power".

Cover of IDLES' 2024 album TANGK, showering a cloudy explosion and the title

Published: SunSun 18 Feb 2024 at 7:00pmTopic: Feature Albums

Music Reads

Sleater-Kinney announce Australian tour as part of 30th anniversary celebrations

Sleater-Kinney made their first record in an Australia shopfront 30 years ago. Now, they're coming back to celebrate

Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker stand side-by-side against a purple background

Published: TueTue 20 Feb 2024 at 12:00am

Flight Facilities' debut album is a first class ticket worth holding onto

A blend of house, disco, indie pop, ambient, hip hop, and classical music, all softly lit by a 70s West Coast haze

two men wearing pilot outfits and headphones

Published: MonMon 19 Feb 2024 at 7:00am

Pearl Jam share new song, announce new album, and lock in Australian dates with Pixies

After Pearl Jam release their 12th album Dark Matter, they'll return to Australia for the first time in a decade with the Pixies in tow.

five men stand in a dark room holding musical instruments

Published: 13 Feb 2024Tue 13 Feb 2024 at 4:00pm

Tenacious D to return to Australia for the first time in over a decade

Jack Black and Kyle Gass return for The Spicy Meatball Tour this July

Jack Black and Kyle Gass of Tenacious D play guitars. Black holds up the devil horns sign with his fingers.

Published: 6 Feb 2024Tue 6 Feb 2024 at 10:00pm

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

Flight Facilities - Down To Earth

The Sydney duo take flight with a first class effort on their full length debut

Duration: 1 hour

Published: MonMon 19 Feb 2024 at 7:00am

blink-182 - Enema of the State

More than hijinks and puerile pranksterism, the California trio's major breakthrough remains surprisingly relevant and snottily defiant 25 years on

Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds

Published: 12 Feb 2024Mon 12 Feb 2024 at 7:00am

Muse – Absolution

The Teignmouth trio's first cohesive synthesis of their epic sonic, emotional and intellectual inclinations

a man looks up to the sky, shadows of outstretched falling bodies surround him

Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds

Published: 5 Feb 2024Mon 5 Feb 2024 at 7:00am

Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear

How the Adelaide born songwriter chose health and happiness, and reframed perceptions of art and the artist in the process

Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds

Published: 29 Jan 2024Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 7:00am

Podcasts

#278: Madame Web, Big Hair, The New Look

Whoosh, what a week! Taylor Swift's American fans are freaking out about the MCG's lack of car park, Beyoncé has made history on the country charts, and we are put in our place with Dan Akroyd's musical chops.

A fashion model is held to a white sheet with multi coloured sticky tape

Duration: 43 minutes

Published: YesterdayWed 21 Feb 2024 at 3:00amTopic: Bang On

Zoë Coombs Marr's everything

Zoë Coombs Marr has been making us laugh for years. You might have seen her doing award winning stand up comedy, often doing meta shows that twist our brains.

Zoe and Zan smile at the ABC in Melbourne. Zan wears a black tshirt and Zoe wears a purple tie-dye long sleeve and wears a cap.

Duration: 39 minutes

Published: 15 Feb 2024Thu 15 Feb 2024 at 11:00pmTopic: Take 5

#277: Beyoncé goes country, Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys

It's been a huge week for music cos the Super Bowl is on, and the biggest platforms on screen and off have been dominated by artists. Beyoncé stole the show by dropping her highly anticipated country era, with two new songs and an album to follow.

Close-up of Beyonce wearing a white cowboy hat

Duration: 48 minutes 11 seconds

Published: 15 Feb 2024Thu 15 Feb 2024 at 4:00amTopic: Bang On

Kylie Minogue's disco ball

It’s been a big week for Kylie Minogue. 20 years after she won her first Grammy, she backed it up; grabbing Best Pop Dance Recording for "Padam Padam". It caps off one of the biggest recent peaks of Kylie’s career, and that’s saying something.

Kylie wears a red dress and stands on the red carpet holding her Grammy award at the 2024 award ceremony.

Duration: 29 minutes

Published: 8 Feb 2024Thu 8 Feb 2024 at 11:00pmTopic: Take 5

Programs

How Sampha’s daughter guided his album Lahai

Sampha talks to Tim Shiel about his daughter’s influence on his album Lahai and what he's learnt from his many high-level collaborations.

A press shot of Sampa tilting his head, eyes closed, wearing a white hoodie and sporting thick dreadlocks

Duration: 10 minutes 32 seconds

Published: YesterdayWed 21 Feb 2024 at 4:00amTopic: Arvos

Gaz Coombes live at Northcote Theatre, Melbourne, 2023

The Britpop icon treats fans to songs from his acclaimed solo career and sneaks in a Supergrass classic

Gaz stands behind a microphone holding a guitar under blue light with his eyes closed

Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds

Published: TueTue 20 Feb 2024 at 7:00amTopic: Live At The Wireless on Double J

Indie-Mexi-Cali pioneers ‘Calexico’ wander Into The Tower for a chat.

Plus, Brian Wilson announces plans to dust off a previously unheard country album from 1970.

Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 58 seconds

Published: MonMon 19 Feb 2024 at 8:00amTopic: Tower of Song

Missy Higgins: "Chicks don't sell tix"

A playlist full of incredible women kicking ass and selling loads of bloody tix

Duration: 2 hours

Published: SunSun 18 Feb 2024 at 4:00amTopic: Artist In Residence

The 50 Best

The 50 best albums of 2022

Some people say the album is dead. Here are 50 strong examples of why that's just not true.

composite of florence welch, lizzo, beyonce, kendrick lamar, haai, Yirrŋa Yunupiŋu, kojey radical, grace cummings, thornbird

Published: 6 Dec 2022Tue 6 Dec 2022 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

IDLES — Tangk

IDLES continue to break new ground on album number five, which they describe as "an album of gratitude and power".

Published: SunSun 18 Feb 2024 at 7:00pm

Brittany Howard – What Now

The second solo effort from the ex-Alabama Shakes frontwoman proves her creativity won't be contained by any single genre, feeling, or expression.

Brittany Howard wears a psychedelic dress and sunglasses, lying on a mountainside field of flowers

Published: 11 Feb 2024Sun 11 Feb 2024 at 7:00pm

Future Islands – People Who Aren't There Anymore

The Baltimore trio's seventh full-length is a mature break-up album scored by their reliably polished synthpop.

Artwork of Future Islands' 2024 album People Who Aren't There Anymore: a painting

Published: 4 Feb 2024Sun 4 Feb 2024 at 7:00pm

The Smile – Wall Of Eyes

Yorke, Greenwood and Skinner's second outing continues to justify The Smile's existence, even as it raises questsions over Radiohead's future.

Artwork for The Smile's 2023 album Wall of Eyes: an abstract painting of blues, oranges, blacks and yellow

Published: 28 Jan 2024Sun 28 Jan 2024 at 6:00pm

Double J

Featured

Groovin the Moo is the latest casualty of a festival industry in crisis. What can be done?

Road Trippin’ with Dylan

IDLES' new album is all about love

Sleater-Kinney announce Australian tour as part of 30th anniversary celebrations

Flight Facilities' debut album is a first class ticket worth holding onto

Pearl Jam share new song, announce new album, and lock in Australian dates with Pixies

Tenacious D to return to Australia for the first time in over a decade

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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Flight Facilities - Down To Earth

blink-182 - Enema of the State

Muse – Absolution

Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear

#278: Madame Web, Big Hair, The New Look

Zoë Coombs Marr's everything

#277: Beyoncé goes country, Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys

Kylie Minogue's disco ball

How Sampha’s daughter guided his album Lahai

Gaz Coombes live at Northcote Theatre, Melbourne, 2023

Indie-Mexi-Cali pioneers ‘Calexico’ wander Into The Tower for a chat.

Missy Higgins: "Chicks don't sell tix"

The 50 best albums of 2022

The 50 Best Debut Singles

50 game-changing women of Australian music

The 50 most important female artists of the 90s

IDLES — Tangk

Brittany Howard – What Now

Future Islands – People Who Aren't There Anymore

The Smile – Wall Of Eyes

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