Noel Mengel, Journalist

"Growing up in the country can be an isolating experience but it really helps to find a few role models with the same aspirations as you."

As Katie Noonan announces a 20-date national tour performing Jeff Buckley’s classic album Grace, Noel Mengel reflects on the album’s enduring power.

Two people who knew Australia’s most successful Indigenous artist best take listeners inside the making of a new Gurrumul collection, 'Banbirrngu—The Orchestral Sessions,' and detail the late singer’s continuing impact.

As country rockers Halfway prepare to celebrate the 10th anniversary of 'Any Old Love,' the band and key allies discuss the road leading to a breakthrough recording.

A grieving Troy Cassar-Daley felt he had lost his musical mojo after the death of his parents. He reveals how he found it again in the house where he grew up for new album ‘Between The Fires’.

Cassar-Daley’s hotly anticipated 14th album, ‘Between The Fires’, is due out later this week.

Thirty years after their first gig, Regurgitator deliver one of the most powerful statements of their career with their new album, 'Invader'. Quan Yeomans explains what went right.

Australian songwriting legend Brian Cadd opens up about an extraordinary life in music, why he finally made a country album, and the unforgettable experience of recording 'The Real Thing'.

Midnight Oil might have reached the end of the road, but Peter Garrett’s creative drive is as vigorous as ever as he delivers a new album and tour with his band, The Alter Egos.

As Rickie Lee Jones prepares for her Australian tour and return to Bluesfest, she talks about her father’s influence on her music, the fight to tell her family story, and what 'The Horses' means to the woman who wrote it.

As Boom Crash Opera prepare for a national tour with 1927, founder members Dale Ryder and Peter Maslen open up about the band’s chemistry, a traumatic accident, and finding out a younger audience loves their songs.

“Once you start writing from your heart properly, the songs start to give you your voice.”