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This year’s list will likley not just reflect what we consider “Aussie” music – but also challenge it. And that’s a good thing.
Only five of the Hottest 100 winners have been bands in the past 15 years, compared to 13 in the 15 years prior.
Tracing the Triple J’s approach to social issues is a way to trace the priorities of many young people in Australia.
A new watchdog website is shedding light on which artists and genres the youth broadcaster is really prioritising.
Number crunching the Hottest 100 votes produces fascinating insights into shifting musical tastes and poses the question: why was 1997 such a great year for music?
January 26 marks one of the greatest expropriations in modern history, which took place at Sydney Cove. Why do so many Australians want to commemorate an act of egregious injustice?
Depite new technologies for music dissimination, EDM artists located in cities have access to resources not available in non-metropolitan areas.
The pervasiveness of profanity in popular culture underscores the absurdity of punishing people for using words broadcast on our screens and heard in our music.
This Monday on the Australia Day public holiday, Triple J’s annual Hottest 100 for 2014 will be announced live across the afternoon and evening. While the countdown is usually the ABC radio station’s highest…
It’s a common refrain among the “dries” in any government that arts and cultural policy should set its course by the lights of economic policy, usually competition, growth and innovation policy. Sometimes…
Australia’s public youth radio station, Triple J, turns 40 today. On January 19 1975, Triple J’s AM predecessor, Double J, infamously burst onto Sydney’s airwaves with the track, You Just Like Me Cause…
Australia’s national youth station, Triple J, has come in for some criticism lately, with a spate of articles accusing it of homogenising Australian music tastes or excluding too many local acts from the…











