Media

Our members are experts in popular music studies, and often feature across the media. Here’s a few of their latest articles and appearances:

 
 

Is Raygun BRAT? It’s Raygun's world and we're just living in it.

Liz Giuffre, University of Technology Sydney

The WA government spent $8 million on Coldplay – but this tourism sugar hit comes at the expense of local music

Sam Whiting and Justin O’Connor, University of South Australia

Technically accomplished, sonically subversive and fiercely independent, I’ll remember Steve Albini for his rare humility

Samantha Bennett, Australian National University

 

The budget has earmarked $8.6 million for live music. Is it enough to save the flailing industry?

Catherine Strong, RMIT University; Ben Green, Griffith University, and Sam Whiting, University of South Australia

From ‘On The Street’ To ‘Drum Media’ To ‘The Music’

Liz Giuffre, University of Technology Sydney

New Disney documentary The Beach Boys tells the iconic band’s story – but not the whole story

Jadey O’Regan, Sydney Conservatorium of Music (University of Sydney)

 

‘I’m looking for a man in finance’: how a sampled sound bite can turn a dance track into an earworm

Timothy Byron, The University of Wollongong

Kiss’s debut album at 50: how the rock legends went from ‘clowns’ to becoming immortalised

Charlotte Markowitsch, RMIT University

The Today Show: Are you one of the lucky Aussies with a Taylor Swift ticket?

Kate Pattison, RMIT University

 

ABC News: Australian music festivals are an unlikely casualty of climate change

Ben Green, Griffith University

Diddy is just the latest in a long line of musical abusers. How should fans respond?

Catherine Strong, RMIT University; Bianca Fileborn, The University of Melbourne; Paige Klimentou, RMIT University

Fifty years on, the Australian hip hop industry still gets a bad rap

Dianne Rodger, University of Adelaide

 

A long-dead soprano has taken to the stage with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Are holograms the future?

Shelley Brunt, RMIT University

Australia and the Nutbush: the quest for the origin of a cultural phenomenon goes on

Jon Stratton, University of South Australia

Step inside the world of mega-fandom

Ailsa Lipscombe, Victoria University of Wellington