Rolling Stone (Australia)

Rolling Stone Australia is the Australian edition of the United States' Rolling Stone magazine.
20 articles
List of articles in the library
Report by Clinton Walker, Rolling Stone (Australia), 1982
"ATTITUDES TO CASSETTES are changing," says Andy Maine, co-producer of Fast Forward cassette magazine. "For so long they've been the little brother or sister of ...
The Scientists: Grunge Going Global
Report and Interview by Clinton Walker, Rolling Stone (Australia), 1983
THE NEWS THAT the Scientists are about to leave Australia — as permanently as is possible — will doubtless barely cause a ripple in Oz-rocks ...
Review by Clinton Walker, Rolling Stone (Australia), January 1984
AND SO THE Birthday Party finally — well what? ... "break up" seems an inadequate term. Implode? OD? Burn-out? It's a difficult task to do ...
The Celibate Rifles: The Celibate Rifles
Review by Clinton Walker, Rolling Stone (Australia), May 1984
IF NOTHING ELSE, the Celibate Rifles' eponymously-titled second album makes it quite plain that it is no longer possible to dismiss this Sydney group as ...
Bob Dylan: Gates of Eden Revisited: A Conversation with Bob Dylan
Interview by Toby Creswell, Rolling Stone (Australia), 16 January 1986
IT DOESN'T REALLY matter now whether Bob Dylan is a fundamentalist Christian, anymore than it mattered whether he was going to the Synagogue when he ...
Fleetwood Mac: Going Their Own Way: Fleetwood Mac Finds a New Life Without Lindsey Buckingham
Report and Interview by Toby Creswell, Rolling Stone (Australia), 14 June 1990
"IT WAS FRIGHTENING, because you don't know if it's going to work," says Stevie Nicks, recalling Lindsey Buckingham's departure from Fleetwood Mac in 1987. The ...
The Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens – 1978-1990 (Beggars Banquet)
Review by Clinton Walker, Rolling Stone (Australia), January 1991
IT WAS PROPHETIC that the Go-Betweens should have prepared this album, a double compilation of their greatest "hits and misses", or rather "misses and outtakes", ...
The Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens: 1978-1990
Review by Clinton Walker, Rolling Stone (Australia), January 1991
IT WAS PROPHETIC that the Go-Betweens should have prepared this album, a double compilation of their greatest "hits and misses", or rather "misses and outtakes", ...
Michael Hutchence, INXS: Michael Hutchence 1960-1997
Obituary by Toby Creswell, Rolling Stone (Australia), December 1997
Whether it was an old head injury, the wrong medication or the loneliness that caused his untimely death, Michael Hutchence was an international superstar, an ...
Interview by Jeff Apter, Rolling Stone (Australia), November 2000
This interview was held in conjunction with the theatrical release of The Million Dollar Hotel in Australia. ...
Powderfinger: Band Of The Year
Interview by Jeff Apter, Rolling Stone (Australia), April 2001
POWDERFINGER ARE THE Rolling Stone 2000 Music Award heroes. The results are in and thousands of you voted for them. Powderfinger are Band Of The ...
Interview by Ian Watson, Rolling Stone (Australia), July 2001
ROOM 372 of the Great Eastern Hotel in London's Liverpool Street has everything a travelling soul megastar could wish for. ...
Interview by Ian Watson, Rolling Stone (Australia), January 2004
HE ANSWERS THE PHONE like a petulant teenager: another day, another interview to sulk his way through. ...
Interview by Ian Watson, Rolling Stone (Australia), March 2004
HOW OLD do you have to be to sing the blues? ...
Profile and Interview by Ian Watson, Rolling Stone (Australia), May 2004
THE DAY PJ HARVEY turned thirty something clicked in her head. She spent her twenties fighting against herself, trying to quash the parts of her ...
Interview by Ian Watson, Rolling Stone (Australia), August 2004
NOT FOR the first time in the last few years, Norman Cook looks nervous. He fiddles with a roll of black gaffer tape, keeping his ...
Iain McIntyre: Tomorrow is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970
Book Review by Clinton Walker, Rolling Stone (Australia), 2006
IAIN MCINTYRE'S first book, 2004's Wild About You!, was unfortunately a very limited edition, published by – of all people – the Community Radio Federation ...
Ian Rilen, Rose Tattoo, X (Australia): Ian Rilen, 1947-2006
Obituary by Clinton Walker, Rolling Stone (Australia), 2006
I play rock'n'roll for a livin', I ain't doin' all that well, I play rock'n'roll for a livin', as if you couldn't tell. I'm a ...
AC/DC: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Retrospective by Clinton Walker, Rolling Stone (Australia), January 2006
EVERYONE AGREED that Peter Head had chosen his name well. The erstwhile Peter Beagley took his new name around the same time, in the early ...
Review by Jeff Apter, Rolling Stone (Australia), 16 October 2014
Jangly vets change line-up but maintain that certain something quite peculiar. ...
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