There are voices that entertained the audience, and then there are voices that alter the course of music itself across genres and decades! Back in the-hey-days vocal artists didn’t just perform — they reshaped the sonic landscape, rewrote [...]
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The 60,000-Year-Old Couch Potato: How MTV Australia Aligned Our Viewing Habits with First Nations Storytelling
Despite the big bang theory that brought all of us at this single point-in-time! MTV Unplugged Spoken Word never featured Australian artists in its official lineup — but the spirit of the format found a uniquely local evolution here in Australia. [...]
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The MTV Revolution – When Australia Hit Play: Growing Up in the Age of MTV Unplugged
There was a moment… Somewhere between the last crackle of vinyl and the first hiss of a dial-up modem, when Australia fell head-over-heels for music in ways that felt almost spiritual. It was the late 80s rolling into the early 90s, and the [...]
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The MTV Revolution! Music Videos played 24/7 From 1981 til Now-A-Days, Come to an…End
In this episode! The first of many, were we drill-down to a human level to discover what it’s really like to finally be switched-off to the sound of music in the lounge rooms of many ordinary TV goers. Placed between the Baby Boomers and the [...]
By sheer weight of hits, Air Supply had opened up the US market to a different sound coming out of Oz: something way less ballsy than AC/DC, more intimate than Midnight Oil. Crowed House, who raided the American charts with the heartfelt ballad [...]
Trailblazing Hard Rock band AC/DC step-out one more time for a fender stratocastor hell of a time at one of Melbourne’s most iconic venue…The MCG. Fifty years after the boys first step’t out onto the world stage, AC/DC’s 50th [...]
Hip hop has gained a wide audience among mostly younger people. Hip hop music in its infancy has been described as an outlet and a “voice” for the disenfranchised youth of low-income and marginalized economic areas, as the hip hop culture [...]
The Slow Rush is the, fourth studio album by Australian musical project Tame Impala, released on 14 February 2020. It follows the 2015 album Currents and the 2019 singles “Patience” and “Borderline”, with the latter serving as [...]
Various profound and personal experiences and issues as well as hedonistic abandon predominated in many of the most well known and loved Australian videos from the second half of the 80’s. With the video for their big hit, ‘Out Of Mind, [...]
