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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Questions about the path we've taken in life can be haunting. Did I select the right career? Did I marry the right person? Did I do right by my kids? New music from the Australian folk band The Paper ...

As Triple J prepares to broadcast the Hottest 100 Australian Songs on July 26, attention turns beyond the rankings to a broader cultural question: What defines an “Australian song”? Is it the ...

The Australian music-loving public was put to the ultimate test in recent weeks when the teams at triple j and Double J asked us to vote in the Hottest 100 of Australian Songs. In typical Hottest 100 ...