Rhythms Music Magazine

By Ian McFarlane

Vale Bill Armstrong 24 June 1929-7 August 2026

Bill Armstrong AM, the pioneering giant and visionary of the Australian recording industry, has died at the age of 97. As a recording engineer, studio owner, producer and broad...

Emma Donovan’s great album of interpretations, Take Me to the River, is still on constant play. Emma did a sold-out show in Melbourne the other week and the album deserves much wider recognition, I reckon. Ruby Jones’s album, Souvenir

Episode 35 of On The Record begins where last week’s conversation left off: with Glen Hansard. 

Brian Wise and Michael Mackenzie watch the Irish singer-songwriter’s funeral, a ceremony that made plain the depth of affection held for the Frames frontman, Once star and inveterate musical collaborator.

Mackenzie was especially struck by the accounts o...

Blaze Foley’s songs are revisited by a new generation of roots and Americana artists on Sittin’ With Blaze: A Tribute To Blaze Foley, released today via Lost Art Records.

The 13-track collection focuses on songs from Foley’s early “tree house” period in Georgia, drawing from recordings later issued by Lost Art Records on the 2010 collection Sittin’ By The ...

Buddy Miller will release Buddy Miller on September 11, 2026 via New West Records. The 12-track set is his first solo album in fifteen years and was produced by Miller, recorded by Mike Poole, and mixed by Miller and Alasdair MacKenzie. It follows In the Throes, his critically acclaimed 2023 collaboration...