Though the title of the song sounds like it’s about a dance with someone named Matilda, it’s actually born of an Australian style of poetry called a “bush ballad”—slang in the country for traveling on ...

The Australian youth radio station, Triple J, runs a vote every year for the best songs released in the previous 12 months (Triple J Hottest 100). There's, as you can imagine, usually an Australian ...

It’s been another big year of releases from Australian, Australia-based and First Nations artists. In this list of our 50 favourites of the year, we’ve tried to capture the various movements and ...

While the British Invasion was in full effect in the 60s, there was also an Australian Invasion going on in the pop music world. The big difference is that the Australian Invasion pretty much ...

Australian artists remain underrepresented on the ARIA charts in 2026, with just one local Top 10 single and one Australian number one album. Tame Impala’s ‘Dracula’ has emerged as the year’s standout ...

Here's an act that was #1 on the Australian pop charts in the early 1980's. Careful, it's almost unintelligible, but have a watch of it and see if you can make head or tail of what he's saying: The ...

Gang of Youths are bringing new music back to Australian audiences with their first local shows in four years this August.