Guides

Few albums in rock history were born from disaster, but the story of one band's record begins with a sickening clunk on a regional highway west of Melbourne.…

There's something inherently rebellious about dragging a record collection into the wilderness. Mountain camping strips life down to the essentials — a swag, a…

The slow dance has long belonged to the rock ballad. From leather-jacketed crooners in the late seventies to the polished arena acts of today, the genre has…

The early 1990s felt like a charged moment for anyone paying attention to alternative music. Subgenres collided, zines circulated hand to hand, and a…

The rumble of a V-twin has always carried its own soundtrack, a mechanical growl that drifts naturally into the world of rock and roll. Motorcycle clubs, with…

Getting lost is one of rock’s oldest emotional engines. Sometimes it means missing the turn, leaving town with no plan, or staring through a windscreen while…

From the first distorted chord, Field Voltage's new EP announces its intentions with the subtlety of a lightning strike. Across six tracks and just under…

A quiet rebellion is happening on stages from Sydney's Hordern Pavilion to Melbourne's Forum, with nothing to do with pyrotechnics or encore rituals. Some of…

Some sounds are so powerful that they escape their original context entirely. Six seconds of a drum solo, captured in an English country house in late 1970,…

Few sounds in guitar music are as instantly recognisable as a metal or glass slide gliding across the strings. It can sound mournful, dangerous, celebratory or…