Gotye has made it four straight week at number one on the ARIA singles charts with his track “Somebody That I Used to Know.” Sadly Adele reclaimed her number one spot on the albums’ charts, forcing Gotye’s Making Mirrors down to number three.
Jessica Mauboy also slipped this week. Her track “Inescapable” fell from number five to six, which still isn’t bad considering it’s been hanging around for a month and a half now.
Jack Vidgen also ran out of a little steam. His album Yes I Am fell from number three to six. Something tells me the real testimony to this kid’s talent is what he can manage when the Australia’s Got Talent hype dies down, and he gets a bit of time to record an album rather than just bashing one out.
With so many albums slipping, it’s exciting to see Icehouse score a top five debut for their newest greatest hits collection White Heat: 30 Hits.
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Some of Australia’s leading musicians are coming together to pay tribute to the late, great Jimi Hendrix at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on October 29.
Baron Wolman, Rolling Stone’s first ever photographer, is heading to Australia to celebrate exhibitions of his rock photography in Sydney and Melbourne. The shows will draw from Baron’s book Every Picture Tells a Story … The Rolling Stone Years, which hits stores today.
Gotye has scored a chart doubler, taking out the top spots on both the 
Gotye has continued his reign at the top of the 
Gurrumul Yunupingu was the big winner at this year’s National Indigenous Music Awards. He took home five gongs: Act of the Year, Album and Artwork of the Year for Rrakala, and Song and Film Clip of the Year for “Gathu Mawula,” a collaboration with Blue King Brown.
With Father’s Day fast approaching, I figured it was a great to reflect on the things my Dad has taught me over the years. After a few decades on this planet there are have been plenty of tidbits passed down to me, so I figured it’d be easiest to share with you my top fifteen (a top ten was just too hard!).
My earliest memories of sharing music with Dad occurred on long car trips. We were lucky enough to take two holidays every year; one to a favourite caravan park in Forster or Salamander Bay, and the other to an interstate destination. This was before the days of cut-price airlines. Dad would rouse us in the wee small hours of the morning, hoping that my sister and I would sleep soundly until we were a few hours away from home. After all, we had a lot of driving ahead of us!
A lot of time has passed since those family road trips, but Dad and I are still very close. These days we tend to share more music and musical stories after dinner parties and at concert venues than we do in the car. But in many ways, not too much has changed. I still occasionally thumb through the pages of the music mags, and I’m amused to see that my Dad’s old favourites still occasionally feature. Perhaps I should get him a