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Rock music and protected wilderness have a tangled, sometimes combative, sometimes beautiful relationship. For decades, organisers have coaxed amplifiers into…

Strip away the amplifiers, pedalboards and studio polish, and the acoustic guitar still commands attention. Its wooden body, ringing strings and human-scale…

There's something primal about a roaring guitar and a long stretch of asphalt disappearing into the horizon. For decades, rock music has captured that feeling…

Rock history is littered with happy accidents, the kind of equipment failures that should have ended a session but instead rewrote the rulebook. Producers have…

There is a particular guitar tone that sounds like an old Holden ute bouncing down a corrugated road outside Tamworth, and the debut single from Outlaw Town…

The romance of the self-released rock album has always captivated music fans. There's something undeniably heroic about a band pressing their own vinyl and…

The early 1970s marked a profound shift in rock music. Until then, albums were afterthoughts built around hit singles and filler. By the middle of the decade,…

There's a particular alchemy that happens when you prop up a carburettor on the bench, crack open a tin of degreaser and let a familiar riff roll out of the…

The story sounds like a perfect rock-and-roll fable: Johnny Cash, already a global star, discovers a deserted Tennessee settlement, buys it, and turns its…

Before synthesisers became familiar fixtures on rock stages, the theremin offered musicians something genuinely uncanny. Its pitch and volume are controlled by…