Over his 50-year career, journalist Derek Maitland survived conflict zones, witnessed the aftermath of bombings and negotiated with armed militants. Now he is in the toughest battle of his life fighting cancer.

Tasmanian singer Maddy Jane will be performing for crowds bigger than the population of her island home when she supports former One Direction singer Harry Styles on his "intimate" Australian tour.

A Perth mother says she was shocked when told she needed to pay $100 for a ticket for her 10-week-old son to enter a Paul Kelly concert in Kings Park.

Advocates for pill-testing at music festivals resort to their plan-B in order to make test kits available to punters at Canberra's Spilt Milk festival, after a derailed attempt to use the event for Australia's first trial of the controversial practice.

The Roem brothers, from West Papua, aren't supposed to be here — alive, that is. It's something they think about every day, and it informs their dance and music.