"Crafted music negates genuine emotion..." I flip through my notebook to see who said this. John Lydon of the Sex Pistols. Ah. It...

"It's the imperfections - the faintly out of tune guitar, the voice, the rasp that creeps in, the garbled lyric, the sigh, the unex...

The proposition for the RPM Challenge seemed simple enough: for the month of February, you are to write and record ten songs and/or 35 minu...

I'm thrilled to announce that The Direct Hits have graciously donated two radio interviews to C&CM that have been unplayed since th...

The title of the book was enough to capture my attention, A Scene in Between: Tripping Through the Fashions of UK Indie Music 1980-1988 . Up...

I've always struggled with the concept of artistic fulfilment , I could never figure out what it was or how to get it. You could imagine...

I was on the ground floor of Melbourne's City Library when the most unlikely music made me freeze and look up. I knew what it was immedi...

I cannot exactly remember which one of us first articulated it, but there's this theory in my house that a decade only truly develops it...

I'm not sure whether it was Jens Lekman, Andy Bull, Sean Lennon or Liam Finn who identified the songwriting principle: in simple terms, ...

Don't be shocked, seriously, don't be. C&CM is not so Anglocentric that there can't be the odd podcast devoted to Australian...