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ABC News
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Kylie Minogue honoured for outstanding contribution to Australian music, Amyl and the Sniffers win song of the year at APRA
Pop royalty Kylie Minogue has been honoured for her outstanding contribution to the Australian music industry at this year's APRA Music Awards. The star, who is currently in California for the last US date of her Tension tour, said her younger self would "not be able to compute" the life that music has given her in her acceptance speech. "Thank you so much, APRA. This is such an honour; I am completely over the moon. I'm only sad that I'm not with you in person," she said via video, accepting the prestigious Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music. " Seventeen-year-old me would not be able to compute the life that music has given me. " "I mean, we all know it's work. You work for it, but I feel like whatever we give and whatever it might take from us, we receive more," she said. "As I'm on tour at the moment, I'm singing songs throughout my entire catalogue. So, from the first one, The Locomotion, right up to songs from Tension, I'm really aware of… the passage of time and how much more music means to me," she said. Minogue joins the ranks of previous distinguished winners, including Midnight Oil, Archie Roach, Cold Chisel and Paul Kelly. Punk rockers Amyl and the Sniffers took out the prestigious peer-voted APRA Song of the Year for the track, U Should Not Be Doing That. Amyl and the Sniffers took home APRA Song of the Year ( AAP: Bianca De Marchi ) The four-piece outfit fronted by high-energy singer Amy Taylor is currently in the US as part of its 2025 world tour, having recently played the first weekend of the Coachella Festival in California. Dance-pop darling Troye Sivan was named Songwriter of the Year at the awards night in Melbourne on Wednesday, after winning APRA Song of the Year in 2024 for his hit song Rush. Musician Kevin Parker took home two gongs, Most Performed Australian Work and Most Performed Pop Work, for his efforts co-writing the Dua Lipa pop hit Houdini. Jude York's cover of Kylie's global hit Can't Get You Out of My Head was among the live tribute performances, with Gut Health also delivering a rendition of Amyl and the Sniffers' winning tune. Singer-songwriter Sia won Most Performed Australian Work overseas for the sixth time with her hit Unstoppable, while the International Recognition Award went to Grammy-winning producer Keanu Torres, who has worked with the likes of Taylor Swift, Doechii, and The Kid LAROI. Otis Pavlovic and Royel Maddell, known as Royel Otis, took out Emerging Songwriter of the Year. Jude York covered Kylie's global hit Can't Get You Out of My Head. ( AAP: Con Chronis ) Here's the full list of 2025 APRA Music Award winners. Peer-Voted APRA Song of the Year: U Should Not Be Doing That, Amyl and The Sniffers Songwriter of the Year: Troye Sivan Emerging Songwriter of the Year: Royel Otis — Otis Pavlovic and Royel Maddell International Recognition Award: Keanu Torres (Keanu Beats) Most Performed Australian Work: Houdini — Dua Lipa, by Kevin Parker/Dua Lipa/Caroline Ailin/Daniel Harle/Tobias Jesso Jr. Most Performed Australian Work Overseas: Unstoppable — Sia, by Sia Furler/Christopher Braide Most Performed Alternative Work: Paradise — Coterie Most Performed Blues and Roots Work: New Love — Ziggy Alberts Most Performed Country Work: Take Forever (Hally's Song) — Cooper Alan Most Performed Dance/Electronic Work: Saving Up — Dom Dolla Most Performed Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Work: Epitaph — Make Them Suffer Most Performed Hip Hop / Rap Work: Fall Back — Lithe Most Performed Pop Work: Houdini — Dua Lipa Most Performed Soul Work: Space — Kaiit Most Performed Rock Work: Through The Trees — King Stingray AAP
The Age
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
It may not be trendy, but I'd still send my kids to single-sex schools
Look, I fancy myself as being as modern as anyone who remembers chanting 'Peace, Charger, Fosters Lager' in the 1970s or drinking Tang while watching Lost in Space can be. If you ignore all the mid-century furniture, contemporary is my vibe. I know burrata is over, that statement belts and solo travel to secondary cities are hot. I've seen Amyl and the Sniffers live and am into hyperrealistic drama series. And yet, I can't drag myself into the current day and admit single-sex schools should not still be a thing. The subject came up for me and my husband this week on a dog walk, sparked by news that enrolments at Melbourne's all-boys Xavier College have dropped 19.5 per cent in the past five years. That doesn't mean single-sex schools are out of favour – Brighton Grammar's numbers jumped 12.3 per cent in the same period – but maybe parents who once went for Xavier's old-school tie are apparently looking elsewhere. Loading Like, to co-ed classrooms. Funny that education is still something Chris and I discuss, given we've got no more school decisions to make ever. But single-sex vs co-ed? It's an evergreen debate. Literally everyone has a take, often impassioned. Mine? That single-sex schools are weird. A relic. A social experiment that makes no sense in a world where boys and girls are supposed to work side by side on equal footing.
Sydney Morning Herald
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
It may not be trendy, but I'd still send my kids to single-sex schools
Look, I fancy myself as being as modern as anyone who remembers chanting 'Peace, Charger, Fosters Lager' in the 1970s or drinking Tang while watching Lost in Space can be. If you ignore all the mid-century furniture, contemporary is my vibe. I know burrata is over, that statement belts and solo travel to secondary cities are hot. I've seen Amyl and the Sniffers live and am into hyperrealistic drama series. And yet, I can't drag myself into the current day and admit single-sex schools should not still be a thing. The subject came up for me and my husband this week on a dog walk, sparked by news that enrolments at Melbourne's all-boys Xavier College have dropped 19.5 per cent in the past five years. That doesn't mean single-sex schools are out of favour – Brighton Grammar's numbers jumped 12.3 per cent in the same period – but maybe parents who once went for Xavier's old-school tie are apparently looking elsewhere. Loading Like, to co-ed classrooms. Funny that education is still something Chris and I discuss, given we've got no more school decisions to make ever. But single-sex vs co-ed? It's an evergreen debate. Literally everyone has a take, often impassioned. Mine? That single-sex schools are weird. A relic. A social experiment that makes no sense in a world where boys and girls are supposed to work side by side on equal footing.
CBS News
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Kinetic Australian punks Amyl and the Sniffers headline the Fox in Oakland
Australian punk band Amyl and the Sniffers bring their high-energy stage show and songs from their latest album Cartoon Darkness to the Fox Theater in Oakland Saturday night with support from punk/metal power-pop crew Sheer Mag. Since first coming together in 2016, the Australian quartet has risen to become one of the most celebrated new acts to emerge from Down Under in the past decade. Formed by pint-sized, bleach-blonde singer Amy Taylor (aka the band's namesake Amyl) and her housemates in suburban Melbourne, the group named itself after the party drug amyl nitrate or "poppers." Taking cues from classic '70s proto-punk (particularly Iggy and the Stooges), glam, pub rock and modern punk, the band's recorded and released their debut EP Giddy Up that same year, reportedly tracking the four songs in just 12 hours. While the raw early recordings featured on that recording and the follow-up Big Attraction EP showed the band's knack for writing short -- often only 90 seconds long -- catchy blasts of punk, it was their feral live show that established the band in Australia. Shows often found the diminutive vocalist spending as much time crowd surfing or on the floor dancing with the audience as onstage during performances. The group would enter the studio to record their debut full-length with producer Ross Orton (the former drummer for UK synth-punk band Add N to X), releasing their eponymous album in 2019 on Flightless, the label affiliated with popular Australian psych band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (ATO and Rough Trade would issue the record in other parts of the world). The album would receive uniformly high praise from critics, earning the ARIA Award -- Australia's version of the Grammy -- for Best Rock Album and getting nominated for the Australian Music Prize. King Gizzard had already provided Amyl and company with their first significant exposure in the U.S., taking them out on a North American tour the year prior. The quartet would become a regular attraction at festivals its native Australia, Europe and the States, appearing at Coachella and Oakland's own garage-punk celebration the Mosswood Meltdown. While the pandemic put a pause on the band's momentum and busy touring plans, Amyl and the Sniffers issued their sophomore effort Comfort to Me to another round of ecstatic notices last year. While maintaining the group's aggressive musical attack, some of the new songs found Taylor ruminating on self-empowerment, sexual politics and emotional vulnerability that elevated the visceral impact of the album. In 2022, the band returned to the Bay Area for a pair of sold-out shows at the Great American Music Hall in in the spring and paid the region another visit to headline the first night of the Halloween Meltdown in Oakland's Mosswood Park. The band has issued an expanded edition of Comfort to Me that featured a full live performance recording made on an empty dock in Melbourne during the pandemic. The band embarked on another national tour last summer that included several festival stops, including a raging set at Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park. Last fall, the quartet released its latest effort, Cartoon Darkness . While still retaining their unbridled punk fury and Taylor's trademark snarl and biting humor at its center, the band's third album shows them stretching into more melodic territory. Still as blunt and profane as their earlier songs (see album opener "Jerkin'" and its video packed with blurred, full-frontal nudity for proof), this round of tunes focuses some of Taylor's bile at the punk rock gatekeepers who question her legitimacy ("U Should Not Be Doing That"). At the same time, the singer questions her own onstage image on "Tiny Bikini" and turns more introspective on a couple of uncharacteristically quieter songs ("Bailing On Me," "Big Dreams"). Amyl and company bring their latest tour to Oakland's Fox Theater on Saturday night , returning to the biggest Bay Area venue the band has headlined. For this show, they are joined by acclaimed Philadelphia-based punk band Sheer Mag. Contemporaries who also feature a distinctive powerhouse female singer in Tina Halladay -- the two groups appeared together at two editions of the Mosswood Meltdown in 2019 and 2022 -- the band's roots stretch back to when the vocalist and fellow core members Matt Palmer and siblings Kyle and Hart Seely while attending Purchase College in New York. Relocating to Philadelphia, the band formed in 2014 and soon started churning out 7-inch singles equally informed by punk, '70s hard rock (especially the harmonized twin-guitar sound of Thin Lizzy) and power pop. Sheer Mag has released three albums while touring with such diverse bands as PUP, Coheed and Cambria and Power Trip. The group put out its latest Playing Favorites a year ago on Jack White's Third Man Records. Amyl and the Sniffers with Sheer Mag Saturday, April 12, 7 p.m. $39.50-$59.50 (sold out) Fox Theater
