The 90s was indeed a vibrant time for Australian alt-rock with a sea of quality bands regularly filling venues and a host of great indie labels willing to take a chance on them. Off the tip of my tongue, there was You Am I, Regurgitator, Powderfinger, Clouds, Custard, Falling Joys,…

A life long Minnesotan whose sound has always focused on a characteristically “Minneapolis” sound, Ricky Peterson is best known for his now 20 year association with saxophone legend David Sanborn and for having, produced, written and played keyboards for Prince on and off since his early days on the Twin…

As the main songwriter and a founding member of iconic Australian pop rock band INXS, Andrew Farriss and his band mates shared the success of more than 50 million record sales, Grammy nominations and an induction into the ARIA Hall Of Fame. Outside of INXS, Andrew is revered in industry…

News of Grinspoon’s upcoming Chemical Hearts tour in October spread far, wide and quickly and consequently the band has already sold out The Forum in Melbourne, Waves in Wollongong and The Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane, with a bunch of other shows on the run not far off selling out….

Perth based hip hop artist Drapht is back with an infectious new single ‘Summer They Say’ and a national tour. AM editor Greg Phillips caught up with Drapht for a chat It would be impossible to write the colourful history of Australian hip hop without including Perth-based rapper Drapht. Along…

Back in June, ahead of his Melbourne Guitar Show performance, we spoke with acclaimed Australian roots music singer, songwriter, guitarist Ash Grunwald, predominantly about his new Pratley Signature guitar (read interview here). This time AM’s Greg Phillips caught up with Ash for a video interview to chat specifically about the…

Ahead of their performance at The Espy this Saturday August 31 as part of the Live N Local festival, El and Dan from Mannequin Death Squad ponder Six Quix for us Melbourne punk rock duo Mannequin Death Squad had an ear-splitting 2018, having already established themselves as a force to…

Introducing Beast Machine and the debut single ‘Time Slowed Down’. These guys hail from the laid back central, Northern NSW but there’s nothing laid back about them in terms of their hard hitting Rock n Roll. To celebrate the release of their single, the guys from Beast Machine sat down…

AM’s Greg Phillips spoke to The Struts singer Luke Spiller and guitarist Adam Slack ahead of their current Australian tour Just as their name implies, UK glam-rockers The Struts are brash, confident and hungry for success. However none of the significant inroads made by the band to date in their…

On July 31, 2019 legendary British guitarist Hank B Marvin sat down with Graham Hoskins, owner of Australian Music Association member music store Concept Music in Perth (also Hank’s local music store) to chat about his career. The interview was conducted for NAMM’s Oral History archive. The NAMM Oral History…