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Hilltop Hoods remember Melanie, the late folk singer sampled on 'The Nosebleed Section'

"A lovely person and a huge talent..." MC Suffa reflects on meeting the artist who powered the Hoods' breakout 2003 anthem.

press shot of Hilltop Hoods against a grey backdrop

Published: YesterdayFri 9 Feb 2024 at 1:00amTopic: Music Reads

How to listen back to the Hottest 100 of 2003

On Saturday 3 February, we revisit one of the biggest Hottest 100s of all time.

cartoon of two robots and the words triple j hottest 100 of 2003

Published: SunSun 4 Feb 2024 at 11:00pmTopic: Music Reads

Missy Higgins, Hilltop Hoods and Xavier Rudd reflect on why 2003 was so huge for Australian music

Some of the country's biggest artists got their start in 2003. We caught up with many of them to hear about the old days, and how much things have changed.

Xavier Rudd with a didgeridoo and acoustic guitar, Missy Higgins with arms outstretched, and Katy Steele playing a guitar

Published: 2 Feb 2024Fri 2 Feb 2024 at 6:00pmTopic: ABC News

Music Reads

Tenacious D to return to Australia for the first time in over a decade

Jack Black and Kyle Gass return for The Spicy Meatball Tour this July

Jack Black and Kyle Gass of Tenacious D play guitars. Black holds up the devil horns sign with his fingers.

Published: TueTue 6 Feb 2024 at 10:00pm

How Absolution took Muse to epic new heights

Where most bands aim for cool, UK trio Muse were always about nailing the colossal.

three men wearing black shirts stand side by side and look at the camera

Published: MonMon 5 Feb 2024 at 7:00am

The Hottest 100 of 2003 — the full list!

Was this one of the best Hottest 100s of all time?

john butler, andre 3000, kelis, missy elliott, bernard fanning, missy higgins and the white stripes with two zombie robots

Published: 2 Feb 2024Fri 2 Feb 2024 at 11:00pm

How Dookie made Green Day the biggest (and most hated) punk band on earth

Their DIY punk scene back home disowned them but Dookie made Green Day the biggest band on the planet.

Green Day's Mike Dirnt, Billie Joe Armstrong and Tre Cool walk down a New York City street

Published: 31 Jan 2024Wed 31 Jan 2024 at 6:00pm

The J Files

2023: The Year That Was

2023 had moments for huge celebrations - we were gripped by Matildas fever, celebrated the 50th anniversary since hip hop began its ascent to dominance, saw technology make the impossible possible and heard more great albums than we can count.

A collage of artists who had big years in 2023

Duration: 1 hour

Published: 7 Dec 2023Thu 7 Dec 2023 at 7:00am

DJ Shadow

DJ Shadow (Josh Davis) changed the game of instrumental hip hop in the 1990s. An early signee of British label Mo' Wax, his debut album Endtroducing…..

Duration: 1 hour

Published: 30 Nov 2023Thu 30 Nov 2023 at 6:00am

Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John is one of the best selling artists of all time. Across a six-decade career that spanned music, stage, screen and health advocacy, she firmly embedded herself in our hearts.

Duration: 1 hour

Published: 23 Nov 2023Thu 23 Nov 2023 at 6:00am

Briggs

We’re handing the mic to Yorta Yorta rapper and Double J's Australian Artist of the Year winner Briggs. Adam Briggs has carved out such an important legacy in Australian music.

Duration: 1 hour

Published: 16 Nov 2023Thu 16 Nov 2023 at 6:00am

New Music

Portishead's Beth Gibbons shares 'Floating On A Moment', first single of debut solo album

The first taste of the influential vocalist's Lives Outgrown, an album reflecting on "motherhood, anxiety, menopause [and] mortality."

Published: WedWed 7 Feb 2024 at 9:30pm

Crowded House are back! Hear their new single 'Oh Hi'

'Oh Hi' is the first new music we've heard from Crowded House since their 12th album Dreamers Are Waiting.

Black and white image of rock band Crowded House standing together in an auditorium with ornate ceilings

Published: ThuThu 8 Feb 2024 at 11:00am

Brittany Howard's 'What Now' is an agitated funk cut from her new solo album

'What Now' is the title track to the former Alabama Shakes frontwoman's second solo album.

Black and white photo of Brittany Howard wearing kaleidoscopic goggles with a mirror image

Published: 2 Nov 2023Thu 2 Nov 2023 at 3:00am

Holy Holy's 'This Time' ft. Tasman Keith is unlike anything either artist has done before

A genre-warping highlight from Holy Holy's latest creative leap, aka LP#5 Cellophane, with help from Bowraville's own Tasman Keith.

A collage of Holy Holy's Tim Carroll and Oscar Dawson and Tasman Keith

Published: 20 Oct 2023Fri 20 Oct 2023 at 5:45am

Classic Albums

Muse – Absolution

The Teignmouth trio's first cohesive synthesis of their epic sonic, emotional and intellectual inclinations

a man looks up to the sky, shadows of outstretched falling bodies surround him

Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds

Published: MonMon 5 Feb 2024 at 7:00am

Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear

How the Adelaide born songwriter chose health and happiness, and reframed perceptions of art and the artist in the process

Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds

Published: 29 Jan 2024Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 7:00am

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication

Back from the brink and on top of their game, the LA legends' seventh record is ultimately a tribute to their unbreakable friendship and creative chemistry

Duration: 1 hour 1 second

Published: 22 Jan 2024Mon 22 Jan 2024 at 7:00am

Rudimental - Home

in 2013, the London four piece bring drum n bass back home

Duration: 59 minutes 57 seconds

Published: 11 Dec 2023Mon 11 Dec 2023 at 7:00am

Podcasts

Kylie Minogue's disco ball

It’s been a big week for Kylie Minogue. 20 years after she won her first Grammy, she backed it up; grabbing Best Pop Dance Recording for "Padam Padam". It caps off one of the biggest recent peaks of Kylie’s career, and that’s saying something.

Kylie wears a red dress and stands on the red carpet holding her Grammy award at the 2024 award ceremony.

Duration: 29 minutes

Published: ThuThu 8 Feb 2024 at 11:00pmTopic: Take 5

#276: Grammys recap, Jacob Elordi, Dolly Alderton

It's a huge week of music, as all 3.5 hours of the Grammys unfolds. Zan has watched it all, Myf's seen the highlights, and we're here to unpack it all for you. Stick around too, cos we're gonna go deep into the amazing Grammys FARSHUN.

Tracy Chapman wears dark clothing and holds a guitar in front of backlights

Duration: 49 minutes 16 seconds

Published: ThuThu 8 Feb 2024 at 4:00amTopic: Bang On

Rove McManus Takes 5 with gold

We’re kicking off the 2024 Take 5 season with an absolute legend. He’s a star of the small screen, a comedian, a children’s book author, he’s part of the very fabric of Australian life, and 20 years ago he won the Gold Logie.

Duration: 45 minutes

Published: 1 Feb 2024Thu 1 Feb 2024 at 11:00pmTopic: Take 5

#275: Universal v TikTok, Mob Wife, Priscilla

Myf and Zan are back for 2024, and it's a big bang! A huge week for music too, with a showdown between Univeral Music Group and TikTok raising big questions around what artists are paid, how they appear, and what AI will do to the music in the…

Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley in the film Priscilla. She is wearing a baby pink negligee and looking into a hand mirror

Duration: 45 minutes 42 seconds

Published: 1 Feb 2024Thu 1 Feb 2024 at 4:00amTopic: Bang On

Programs

Desko: DRAGON

Get turbo with your weekly dose of DESKO, the disco at your desk by request. It's the Lunar New Year and 2024 is the year of the Dragon. So let's hear your Dragon songs!

Picture of mirror disco ball landing on a laptop and spilling a cup of coffee

Duration: 1 hour

Published: YesterdayFri 9 Feb 2024 at 12:00amTopic: Desko

New Alkaline Trio, SPRINTS plus MC5 and Smashing Pumpkins

RIP Brother Wayne! We're also playing a ripper tune from Belgium rockers The Day Off and sludgy stoner rock from Slomosa.

Press photo of Irish garage rock band Springs. Taken at night, four people looking at camera.

Duration: 1 hour

Published: ThuThu 8 Feb 2024 at 7:00amTopic: Eleven

Sons of the East: From Sydney’s Northern Beaches to the world

Sons of the East’s vocalist and keyboardist Nic Johnston talks to Dylan about his band’s beginnings in Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

Sons of the East 2023 by Eline J Duijsens

Duration: 4 minutes 37 seconds

Published: TueTue 6 Feb 2024 at 10:00pmTopic: Mornings

Bernard Fanning live at Harvest Rock, Adelaide, 2023

Soak up the sun and the anthemic songs of an Australian music legend

Bernard Fanning on stage with a red guitar singing into a microphone

Duration: 1 hour

Published: TueTue 6 Feb 2024 at 7:00amTopic: Live At The Wireless on Double J

The 50 Best

The 50 best albums of 2022

Some people say the album is dead. Here are 50 strong examples of why that's just not true.

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Published: 6 Dec 2022Tue 6 Dec 2022 at 6:00pm

The 50 Best Debut Singles

The songs that defined careers, started movements, disrupted genres.

Published: 18 Sep 2021Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 6:55am

50 game-changing women of Australian music

The artists who shifted the needle in our local scene

Christine Anu, Alison Wonderland, Tkay Maidza, Chrissy Amphlett, Sampa The Great, Courtney Barnett, Adalita, Stella Donnelly

Published: 7 Mar 2021Sun 7 Mar 2021 at 9:00pm

The 50 most important female artists of the 90s

No matter what kinda music you were into, there were women making it with just as much class, passion and skill as their male counterparts.

Published: 15 Jun 2017Thu 15 Jun 2017 at 6:43pm

Feature Albums

Future Islands – People Who Aren't There Anymore

The Baltimore trio's seventh full-length is a mature break-up album scored by their reliably polished synthpop.

Artwork of Future Islands' 2024 album People Who Aren't There Anymore: a painting

Published: SunSun 4 Feb 2024 at 7:00pm

The Smile – Wall Of Eyes

Yorke, Greenwood and Skinner's second outing continues to justify The Smile's existence, even as it raises questsions over Radiohead's future.

Artwork for The Smile's 2023 album Wall of Eyes: an abstract painting of blues, oranges, blacks and yellow

Published: 28 Jan 2024Sun 28 Jan 2024 at 6:00pm

Sleater-Kinney – Little Rope

Album number 11 sees the indie rock icons in typically brilliant touch.

one member of sleater kinney floating in the air while the other sits on a couch

Published: 21 Jan 2024Sun 21 Jan 2024 at 6:00pm

Sofia Kourtesis – Madres

Motivated by 'How Music Makes You Feel Better', the Peruvian-born, Berlin-based producer's full-length debut is probably the only euphoric dance music album dedicated to a neurosurgeon.

Artwork for Sofia Kourtsis' 2023 album Madres showing her in red and blue tones, squatting cliffside overlooking the water

Published: 3 Dec 2023Sun 3 Dec 2023 at 7:00pm

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Featured

Hilltop Hoods remember Melanie, the late folk singer sampled on 'The Nosebleed Section'

How to listen back to the Hottest 100 of 2003

Missy Higgins, Hilltop Hoods and Xavier Rudd reflect on why 2003 was so huge for Australian music

Tenacious D to return to Australia for the first time in over a decade

How Absolution took Muse to epic new heights

The Hottest 100 of 2003 — the full list!

How Dookie made Green Day the biggest (and most hated) punk band on earth

2023: The Year That Was

DJ Shadow

Olivia Newton-John

Briggs

Portishead's Beth Gibbons shares 'Floating On A Moment', first single of debut solo album

Crowded House are back! Hear their new single 'Oh Hi'

Brittany Howard's 'What Now' is an agitated funk cut from her new solo album

Holy Holy's 'This Time' ft. Tasman Keith is unlike anything either artist has done before

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Muse – Absolution

Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication

Rudimental - Home

Kylie Minogue's disco ball

#276: Grammys recap, Jacob Elordi, Dolly Alderton

Rove McManus Takes 5 with gold

#275: Universal v TikTok, Mob Wife, Priscilla

Desko: DRAGON

New Alkaline Trio, SPRINTS plus MC5 and Smashing Pumpkins

Sons of the East: From Sydney’s Northern Beaches to the world

Bernard Fanning live at Harvest Rock, Adelaide, 2023

The 50 best albums of 2022

The 50 Best Debut Singles

50 game-changing women of Australian music

The 50 most important female artists of the 90s

Future Islands – People Who Aren't There Anymore

The Smile – Wall Of Eyes

Sleater-Kinney – Little Rope

Sofia Kourtesis – Madres

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