Humans of Music

Since forming in 2012, Nothing But Thieves have become one of England's biggest musical exports, touring the world, playing the late-night TV talk show circuit in America and hitting the Top 10 in th…

Amanda Palmer first gained widespread recognition in 2003 when her band The Dresden Dolls released their self-titled debut album. 

But it was in 2012 that she really captured the world’s attention wh…

David Ryan Harris has forged a career as a solo artist, songwriter, producer, session musician and touring guitarist.

His list of credits is long and populated with hits, having written songs for Guy…

Frank Turner first found acclaim fronting British hardcore band Million Dead. When they split in 2005 he picked up his acoustic guitar and hit the road, embarking on a new career as a singer-songwrit…

Adam Briggs is the ultimate multi-tasker. As a solo artist and with A.B. Original he’s become one of Australia’s most respected rappers, but he’s also an actor, scriptwriter, children's book author a…

For many years, Thao Nguyen lived what she calls a divided life. As a young performer she played down her ethnicity, to the detriment of her sense of identity. And though she identifies as queer and …

Over the years the name Michael Franti has become synonymous with hope, positivity and social activism. It’s there in the music he makes with Spearhead, it’s there in his new album Work Hard & Be Nic…

Brett James was heading for a career in medicine before moving to Nashville in the early '90s to pursue music. But after seven unsuccessful years he returned to Oklahoma to resume his studies, his dr…

It may say Mark Landon on his birth certificate, but to the world at large he is M-Phazes, one of Australia’s most successful producers and songwriters. He’s worked with everyone from Amy Shark, Noah…

Melanie Chisolm experienced the kind of fame you just couldn’t prepare for. Known around the world as Sporty Spice, for a period of time she was one of the most famous people in the world, in one of …

Since being discovered in a pub by Ben Howard's manager, Sam Fender’s career has exploded – he won the Critics’ Choice Award at the 2019 Brit Awards, while his debut album Hypersonic Missiles landed …

For a brief period before Brian recorded his latest album, Local Honey, he considered giving up music as a full-time profession. With 40 just around the corner, and a career that had far exceeded wha…

Nina Nesbitt knows firsthand how fickle success can be. By the time she was 20 she’d played arena shows and released a debut album called Peroxide that went to Number One in Scotland.

Despite this su…

Addiction has touched the lives of The Lumineers' Jeremiah Fraites and Wesley Schultz. Jeremiah’s brother, with whom Wes was also close, was just 19 when he died of a heroin overdose. Wes meanwhile h…

What do you do when your life becomes tabloid fodder? When your sexuality becomes a subject of public interest?

For Adam Lambert, coming second in the 2009 season of American Idol exposed him to that…

What does it take to find happiness?

For Best Coast frontwoman Bethany Cosentino, it had a lot to do with getting sober.

She’d spent much of her 20s self-medicating as she dealt with mental health is…

As John Butler's popularity grew, he spent a significant part of that ride just holding on for dear life, never stopping to take stock or deal with any of his niggling personal baggage.

That all chan…

The first time Tove Lo held her microphone out to the crowd and asked them to sing the words, she closed her eyes and hoped for the best.

When the crowd sang the chorus back to her she turned to the …

When most people think of Billy Bragg they probably think of the political firebrand who championed the miners' strike in Wales in '84/'85, and who in the mid-'80s founded Red Wedge, a coalition of m…