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The March 15 Edition

In our cover story this week, musician Amy Shark talks about fame and film, as she prepares to star opposite Russell Crowe in her first movie role.

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Acne Studios jacket and pants. Alma Ines singlet.

Amy Shark is starring with Russell Crowe in her first film. His advice was very direct

Over the past decade, Amy Shark’s career has taken her from radio debutante to the Australian Idol judging table, and now, the movie set.

  • Myffy Rigby
Joe Camilleri married his first wife, Angela, when he was 20, but their marriage was marked by a huge loss.

Joe’s had five kids with three women. Now he doesn’t know how to ask a girl out

Life on the road with the Black Sorrows means musician Joe Camilleri “missed a lot of birthdays”.

  • Jane Rocca

The March 7 edition

Nagi Maehashi: from corporate high-flyer to culinary queen | Inside the US’s peak MAGA conference | Courtney Barnett’s songwriting secrets

Peachy keen: Shaylee Curnow, aka Peach PRC, is already one of Australia’s most successful pop musicians. Now comes her debut album.

After years of anticipation, the time is ripe for Peach PRC

The former stripper-turned-TikTok sensation goes off with the fairies on her debut album.

  • Jules LeFevre
MAY-A, aka Sydney artist Maya Cumming, assembled a team of rock whisperers for her new album, including Paramore producer Carlos de la Garza.

Homegrown hits: The best Australian music to hear this month

A monthly spotlight on our favourite new albums, EPs, singles and videos from local musicians.

  • Jules LeFevre, Robert Moran and Nick Buckley
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Keli Holiday, aka Adam Hyde: “Words do have weight online if you’re constantly battered with them.”

Keli Holiday just wants to write the ‘greatest song’. Will online haters let him?

With a hit single and a high-profile relationship, the Peking Duk star has become a solo smash. Can he handle the heat?

  • Jules LeFevre
Amy Taylor has become one of the most recognisable women in rock.

How Amyl and the Sniffers star found herself in a legal stoush with a US photographer

She’s one of the most famous women in rock right now, but Amy Taylor has found herself in a kind of spotlight she’d rather have avoided.

  • Karl Quinn
Sue Chrysanthou SC has been brought in to help Leroy Bressington, one half of the pop duo Royel Otis, mount legal action over anonymous Reddit posts.

Sue Chrysanthou gets nod for Reddit clean-up for one half of Royel Otis

The well-known defamation lawyer is working for Leroy Bressington to take action against anonymous online posts.

  • John Buckley
Chrissy Amphlett in Sydney 2006.

Chrissy Amphlett wrote a show in which she was a crow. Years after her death, her vision lives on

Sheridan Harbridge has created the show the late Divinyls legend never got to make.

  • John Shand