The ARIA Hall of Fame inductees are billing the shows as “farewell performances”, but whether or not the tour will indeed mark their final swansong remains to be seen. “The rationale is to go out ...

Radio Birdman will make you forget Midnight Oil. Newsflash: “Late-’70s Australian punk legend Radio Birdman is touring America.” Just another reunion tour? Think again. This is a noteworthy event.

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

In 1972 guitarist Deniz Tek left frigid Michigan to attend medical school in sunny Sydney, and wound up doctoring Australian rock-and-roll. Tek's Motor City aggression, learned from bands like the ...

With a table-clearing smash of Who-like power chords, Radio Birdman grandly announced that they were back in the game from the very first track—the appropriately titled “We’ve Come So Far (to Be Here ...

These Australian legends took their spot in the Great Brief Spurt hall of fame when early-80s underground-rock geeks pronounced their 1978 debut LP, Radios Appear, a lost punk classic. (Sire dropped ...