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Jack Tregoning

Jack Tregoning is a music and culture writer based in Sydney

February 2026

  • Bad Bunny performs in Sydney, Australia on 28 February 2026

    ‘For us, it’s like Christmas’: Bad Bunny gets rapturous welcome at first-ever Australian show

  • Australian singer-songwriter May-a photographed on the roof of the Sony studio in Sydney, Australia

    Guardian Australia's headline act
    May-a: ‘I was not in a good place – no one’s in a good place when they get a neck tattoo’

January 2026

  • 2025 Austin City Limits Music Festival - Weekend TwoAUSTIN, TEXAS - OCTOBER 11: Olivia Dean performs during 2025 Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park on October 11, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Erika Goldring/WireImage)

    Olivia Dean’s Man I Need wins Triple J’s Hottest 100

  • From left to right: Keli Holiday, Ninajirachi, Olivia Dean and Spacey Jane.

    Triple J’s Hottest 100: more than 2m votes have been cast – but who will win?

December 2025

  • Australian musicians

    Summer essentials
    The 16 best Australian albums of 2025

    Your guide to Australia’s best music of the year, including Folk Bitch Trio, Ninajirachi, Tame Impala and others

September 2025

  • Melbourne gig for Killing Heidi's 25th anniversary tour of their album Reflector.

    ‘Why are all these twentysomethings at a Killing Heidi show?’ How nostalgia tours took over Australian music

    The band are among a wave of artists hitting the road this year to celebrate landmark albums. It reflects deeper trends in the Australian music landscape, where new artists are struggling to cut through
  • Genesis Owusu

    Walk with ...
    Genesis Owusu: ‘We are not each other’s enemies. Trans people and immigrants aren’t the reason your eggs are expensive’

    The Aria-winning artist on eating cheese plates with his fans’ parents, the benefits of Canberra and why community is the antidote to division
  • Brothers Oliver and Louis Leimbach of Lime Cordiale

    Musicians v the climate crisis: ‘We’re trying to put on the greenest show in Australia’

    A two-week tour produces the equivalent of an average household’s yearly carbon emissions. So some bands, including Lime Cordiale and Cloud Control, are trying small changes – like ditching confetti – and big ones, like building solar farms

June 2025

  • Photography from DZ Deathrays gig at the Koala Tavern in Capalaba, QLD on Saturday 29 March 2025 as part of their Weekend Warriors Regional Australian Tour. Full gallery: https://sublimesyndrome.pixieset.com/dzdeathrays/ Photography by Carly Grace - @sublimesyndrome

    ‘It’s unfeasible to run this model much longer’: is this the end of the Australian regional tour?

    Musicians are reporting low ticket sales for gigs that end up costing them money to play – before 11th-hour turnarounds that bring out huge crowds. But is such a risky ecosystem something bands want to deal with?

October 2024

  • The Kid Laroi on stage

    SXSW Sydney: now in its second year, has the festival found its feet?

  • Rüfüs Du Sol perform their sold-out pop-up show at Sydney’s Botanic Gardens

    Rüfüs Du Sol, Dom Dolla, Flume, Fisher: inside Australian dance music’s global boom

August 2024

  • X Club sit on a rock

    Australian critic's picks
    Critic’s pick: X Club, the hard and fast DJ duo raving around the world

    Since breaking out in the early pandemic, the Brisbane pair have captured dancers globally craving raucous, strobing techno. They’ll leave you breathless

May 2024

  • Tim Levinson and Kenny Sabir from Elefant Traks

    ‘When things dry up, we can’t just call daddy’: Elefant Traks, the DIY label that changed Australian music

  • Haai

    Australian critic's picks
    Critic’s pick: Haai, the DJ making euphoric electronica with Kylie, Fred Again and Jon Hopkins

April 2024

  • Jebediah

    Guardian Australia's headline act
    ‘When we get into a room, it feels like it’s 1995’: Jebediah on their first album in 13 years

    In our new monthly series Headline Act we spotlight the Australian artist we’re most excited about – and they make us a playlist

March 2024

  • The crowd at last year’s Splendour in the Grass

    First Groovin the Moo, now Splendour: why are Australia’s music festivals falling over?

    The industry is reeling as a ‘multitude of factors’ combine to hurt ticket sales – and the path forward appears uncertain
  • ‘What’s immediately obvious about Hyperbolic is that it’s prefabbed for the Spotify age’: Pnau’s new album

    Pnau: Hyperbolic review – comeback from kings of kitsch can sound overly polished

    After a tortuous career that briefly peaked with a viral remix of Elton John and Dua Lipa, the trio return with 10 reliable hits – while sacrificing some of their bizarro glory
  • Logic1000, Australian DJ and musician

    Australian critic's picks
    Logic1000: one of dance music’s most intriguing artists enters a new era

    Co-signed by Four Tet, the Sydney-born producer and DJ finally has a debut album: a ‘love letter to house music’, and to the messiness of life

February 2024

  • Fred Again performs in the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday night.

    House music
    Fred Again at Sydney Opera House review – a record-breaking, turbocharged night

    About 125,000 people tried to get tickets for this surprise show, announced by the savvy British DJ on the day – and the result was a direct hit to the brain’s pleasure centres

October 2022

  • Mode festival

    Mode festival review – ‘elevated’ dance music brings new life to Sydney’s Cockatoo Island

    The former penal colony has been the sandstone-and-steel backdrop for art shows, concerts and festivals – but nothing quite like Mode
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