The shortlist of nominees for the 2008 Australian Music Prize has been announced. We’re taking bets and placing odds. Kinda.

The name Wolfmother II is now taken, but are Perth psychedelic trio Tame Impala following the same career trajectory? With the same accusations?

You know that sea shanty, that oriental motif, that clown theme, that car horn tune, that snakecharmer melody, the one about Hitler's single testicle? Here are the origins of those songs stuck in your head.

From the state of the grass to the latest in Australian flag fashions, our belated yet bumper round-up of this year's festivities has it all.

Epic hours-long queues, heavy-handed security staff, poor amenities and even worse sound… Enraged ticketholders are calling yesterday's Melbourne Laneway Festival the worst festival ever.

GLOBAL EXCLUSIVE: Australia's hottest new rapper speaks to The Enthusiast about women, Westside life, and snapkicking every other cunt in Australian hip-hop.

Melbourne-based hip-hop and reggae producer Mista Savona has made history by producing the first ever internationally distributed Australian dancehall riddim, the Fire Dragon Riddim.

What comes first for white rastas: their worship of the sweet leaf, their love of dub reggae, or their devotion to Haile Selassie I? We ask Ziggy Marley what he thinks.

An anecdote about Double J and Twice the T had The Enthusiast in tears of such hysterical laughter that we were moved to investigate: whatever happened to this short-lived New Zealand hip-hop group?