Painters and Dockers

One album that slipped through the cracks in July was Dave Stewart’s ‘Dave Does Dylan’, an album for Dylan covers from the Eurythmics co-founder.

Dave Mustaine is pulling the plug on Megadeth after one final album and a world tour.

In the pantheon of Australian rock, few records have etched themselves as deeply into the nation’s cultural memory as Jimmy Barnes’ For The Working Class Man.

Ice Cube’s 2025 film War of the Worlds: Revival, a screenlife-style reboot streamed on Amazon Prime Video, has emerged as one of the most spectacular flops in recent memory: critically derided, stylistically misguided, and thematically bankrupt.

On August 11, 2025, on the birthday of her son Rocco, Madonna posted an emotional appeal on social media directed at Pope Leo XIV. She implored the pontiff to "please go to Gaza and bring your light to the children before it's too late", emphasizing the urgency of opening humanitarian gates and addressing the suffering of innocent children caught in the conflict zone.

Eddie Izzard is set to return to Australia in 2025 with The Remix Tour Live, a unique and exhilarating new show that revisits, reimagines, and reinvents some of her most beloved comedic moments from a career spanning over three decades.

Neil Young’s Old Ways, released on 12 August 1985, was Neil’s seventeenth studio album, not country Crosby Still Nash & Young). It was a return to straight-up country-country rock offering that marks a bold detour from the mainstream rock and folk he’d become known for.