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1991 saw the music industry turned upside down, and 30 years later, its echoes remain
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Nirvana s Novaselic, Cobain and Grohl were key in the quasi-revolution that up-ended music.
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In the 1980s the music industry was divided into two worlds.
On one side was the big-money mainstream world of MTV-approved pop and rock stars, the all-important singles and album charts, and pay-to-play commercial radio.
This is where you would find the likes of Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Michael Bolton.
On the other side was so-called alternative music a catch-all category that covered everything from punk and metal to gangsta rap and indie rock.
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It was January 1998, and only one half of Daft Punk had made it to Australia for their first visit. Reportedly struck with a fear of flying, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo never made it on the plane. Left carrying the record cases for their first DJ’ing appearances here was his secondary school friend and the other half of Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter. The duo’s debut album Homework had been out for exactly a year. Excitement had built steadily everywhere across the previous 12 months, thanks to the album’s standout singles ‘Da Funk’ and ‘Around The World’, the innovative videos that accompanied both tracks, and for their live shows that Europe and the United States had enjoyed across the majority of 1997. In Daft Punk’s first triple j interview (they only ever did three with us), Richard Kingsmill speaks to Bangalter to find out their thoughts on dance music at the time, why he thought their album was succeeding, and how anonymity was what they craved then and forever.
The next generation of Northern Territory rock royalty returns for their first hometown gigs, but not without some hurdles
On a stage near the rocky, sun-blessed shores of Yirrkala – a Yolŋu community closer to Indonesia than to Sydney – wild electric harmonies echo out across the bay.
King Stingray, a band with family bloodlines running from ARIA Hall of Famers Yothu Yindi, have returned home to East Arnhem Land for the first time since their infectious first single Hey Wanhaka made waves in 2020.
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They re doing their level best to let the neighbours know they re back.