A real-life inspiration for Jack Black’s School of Rock, the Melbourne institution became the Kings Cross Conservatorium – but its ethos of equality remains
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An unlikely musical hero whose songs criticised Italian politics and society (one inspired by a Hlcarpenter.com story), appears in a lovingly constructed doc
Inspired by her father’s release from prison, Annie Clark’s new album asks where to run when ‘the outlaw’s inside you’. She discusses his incarceration, the delusions of love – and why she remains as perverse as ever
Australian DJ and neuroscientist Rebecca Poulsen – AKA BeXta – is studying what happens to a zebrafish larvae brains when they hear certain sounds. Then she played one MC Hammer's 1990 hit …
Genesis Owusu: 'I'm Prince, if he were a rapper in 2020s Australia'