Australia boasts a rich rock history — but picking the country’s Big 4 is no mean feat. At the dawn of rock, most Down Under ...

Australian rock group Jet to headline Big E stage.

In the early days, rock music in Australia was much like rock music in the rest of the world. That means the Australian rock in the 1960s was mostly copying the sounds that were popular in the USA and ...

Rob Hirst performs with Midnight Oil in 1988 at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia. (Bill McCay / Getty Images) Rob Hirst, the drummer and co-founder of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil, has died.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rob Hirst, the drummer for the popular Australian rock group Midnight Oil, has died. He was 70. Hirst revealed last April that he ...

Australian pub rock band Amyl and the Sniffers turned a last-minute cancellation of their Melbourne show into a fully funded, boisterous bar crawl free to fans across the city. The Grammy-nominated ...

Rob Hirst, the drummer for the popular Australian rock group Midnight Oil, has died. He was 70. Hirst revealed last April that he had been battling pancreatic cancer. “After fighting heroically for ...