David James Young
David James Young is a freelance writer from Wollongong, Australia. He has been working as a music and arts journalist since 2008. He is also the host of the podcasts All My Friends Are in Bar Bands, Hottest 100s and 1000s and The Big Show Show Show.
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Watch Kid Kapichi invade Hastings United FC in new video for ‘Let’s Get To Work’
"My two biggest loves in life will always be music and football"

Olivia Dean adds more UK and European dates to 2024 ‘Messy’ tour
"It's gonna be very special, and I can't wait to sing with you all"

Thief robs We Came As Romans’ hotel room, jumps from fifth-floor balcony
"We unfortunately had an odd run in Adelaide this morning"

Laufey announces 2024 ‘Bewitched’ UK and European tour
From Dublin to Reykjavík, Laufey's continental tour will begin in February

CHVRCHES’ Lauren Mayberry makes solo debut with piano ballad ‘Are You Awake?’
"Thinking a lot about loneliness and homesickness" inspired the frontwoman's first solo song

On ‘Cleave’, Vallis Alps are back from the brink: “We had two paths: give up completely or see if we could salvage things”
Somewhere between Sydney and New York, the electronica duo nearly imploded – but a mediation process, and a reckoning with identity, kept them alive

John Farnham’s son Robert on hit documentary ‘Finding The Voice’ and his father’s recovery: “We’ve heard him singing again”
Ahead of the documentary’s DVD and Blu-ray release this Wednesday, Robert Farnham talks to NME about “lovely, passionate” director Poppy Stockell, seeing Olivia Newton-John in the film and more

‘Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story’: 5 things we learned from the new documentary about the Aussie music industry legend
The new film, out in Australian cinemas this month, tells MG’s life story through archival interviews with his family, friends and the man himself

Lil Uzi Vert announces North American ‘Pink Tape’ tour for October 2023
The 'Just Wanna Rock' rapper will take to the stage for a month-long run later this year

Watch Billy Joel and Joe Jonas duet ‘Uptown Girl’ in London
"This was a bucket list moment," said Jonas of the first-time duet

Watch Elton John perform an emotional ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ on final night of farewell tour
Sir Elton originally embarked on the 'Farewell Yellow Brick Road' tour in September 2018

The Slingers – ‘Sentimentalism’ review: underground sensations surface with an impressive “motel pop” debut
The Melbourne five-piece embrace kitschy crooning and keeping their cool on a debut album several years in the making