Humans of Music

If you’re a fan of Adele, Kylie Minogue or Hozier, there’s a good chance you’ve heard Lurine Cato sing, even if you didn’t know it. She was one of the backing vocalists on Adele’s 2008 album 19, she …

When The Darkness released their debut album Permission To Land in 2003, the biggest hits were coming from singer-songwriters like Norah Jones and rappers like 50 Cent.

The Darkness though were a thr…

My Morning Jacket recently released their self-titled, ninth studio album. But for a while there, frontman Jim James didn’t know if there would ever be another MMJ record. Years of relentless touring…

Joan As Police Woman – AKA Joan Wasser – has just released her latest studio album, The Solution Is Restless.

Featuring guitarist, songwriter and producer Dave Okumu and drummer and afrobeat legend T…

When the Go-Go's released their debut album Beauty and the Beat in 1981, they became the first all-female band that wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to reach Number 1 on the Bil…

Pond came out of the incredibly fertile Fremantle scene of the mid-2000s. It’s the scene that gave birth to acts like Tame Impala – of which Nick Allbrook was also a member – and Mink Mussel Creek, a…

Amanda Warner – AKA MNDR – first came to mainstream attention in 2010 when she collaborated with Mark Ronson on the song "Bang Bang Bang". 

Her path to that point was long and winding, and began in r…

Bob Marlette has been making records quite literally for decades, performing, producing and writing with acts like Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Shinedown, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rob Zombie and more.

You mig…

James Vincent McMorrow recently released Grapefruit Season, his fifth album. It features contributions from producers and writers like Kenny Beats and Adele collaborator Paul Epworth, and sees him em…

Off the back of her hit single "Torn", Natalie Imbruglia’s 1997 debut album sold more than seven million copies and earned her three GRAMMY nominations. 

After that initial burst of success, things g…

When Amyl and the Sniffers came together in 2016, they didn’t so much form as they did fall together. They were sharing a house in Melbourne and had a jam one afternoon, and ended up writing and reco…

Matthew E. White's new album, K Bay, is a wildly diverse record that has no regard for current trends. But then that’s how Matthew has run his career from day one.

Not only is he a musician, he is al…

Ilan Rubin has established himself as one of the top session musicians in the world, playing with artists such as Paramore, Beck and Angels & Airwaves, the project founded by former blink-182 guitari…

Nick Murphy recently released a new Chet Faker album called Hotel Surrender. It’s the first Chet Faker record since 2014’s Built On Glass, although Nick has released a couple of albums under his own …

2021 marks the 30th anniversary of Soundgarden’s landmark album, Badmotorfinger. When they released that record the band were on the verge of exploding, with Seattle quickly becoming the epicentre …

How many interviews have you listened to where an artist has said they picked up an instrument as a kid, and they knew from that moment that they wanted a career in music? Well, that is not Joshua R…

Gary Kemp was the driving force behind Spandau Ballet's rise in the '80s, penning their biggest hits such as 'True', 'Gold', 'To Cut A Long Story Short', 'Through The Barricades' and more.

He's jus…

When Nick Littlemore was a teenager, his life changed when he discovered Sydney’s underground dance scene. 

Alongside school friend Peter Mayes he formed the electronic band PNAU, who’ve gone on t…

Since forming The Cult with vocalist Ian Astbury in 1983, Billy Duffy has proven himself to be one of those guitarists who can shapeshift musically, yet still sound like Billy Duffy. So whether yo…

In 2020, Australian singer-songwriter Emma Swift released an album of Bob Dylan covers called Blonde On The Tracks.

She never intended to release the covers when she started recording them a few year…