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Starstruck: Reckoning with Michael Jackson’s legacy
What do we do with the music after ‘Leaving Neverland’?
The Monthly music wrap: March 2019
Koffee’s debut EP brings a jolt of youthful energy, and new releases from local projects with global sensibilities
A black woman in space: Solange’s ‘When I Get Home’
Songs distilled from the quiet expanses of high art and black culture
Clicks, plinks, hoots and thuds: Matmos’s ‘Plastic Anniversary’
The American experimental duo embrace the ‘sounds’ of a ubiquitous material
The Monthly music wrap: February 2019
On the precarious state of live music in NSW and the impact of proposed festival-licensing laws
Pete Shelley’s Buzzcocks: 40 years on
The history and legacy of a punk pioneer
Female fandom and Jessica Leski’s ‘I Used to be Normal’
They’ve been dismissed and patronised, but Beatlemaniacs, Directioners and other fangirls are very self-aware about their boy band ‘affliction’
The Monthly music wrap: November 2018
A festive EP from Tyler, the Creator; new releases from Anderson .Paak, Mariah Carey and cupcakKe; and David Byrne live
A bigger, shinier cage: Julia Holter’s ‘Aviary’
A classically schooled composer seeks shelter from the cacophony of modern life
The Monthly music wrap: October 2018
Charli XCX explores pop’s frontiers, new releases from Kim Petras and Robyn, and soundtracks to ‘A Star Is Born’ and ‘Suspiria’