Listen to Radio Birdman’s “We’ve Come So Far (To Be Here Today)” from the new album Zeno Beach. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Sometimes, the right guys get ...

The ARIA Hall of Fame inductees are billing the shows as “farewell performances”, but whether or not the tour will indeed mark their final swansong remains to be seen. “The rationale is to go out ...

The best punk rock bands usually have long hair. Bands like The Stooges, Ramones, Black Flag, and seminal Australian punkers Radio Birdman. While somewhat obscure in America, Birdman are legends back ...

Radio Birdman will make you forget Midnight Oil. Newsflash: “Late-’70s Australian punk legend Radio Birdman is touring America.” Just another reunion tour? Think again. This is a noteworthy event.

Next up at the BrooklynVegan-presented Music Driven series at Williamsburg’s Nitehawk Cinema is a screening of Descent Into The Maelstrom, the 2017 documentary on legendary Australian punk band Radio ...

Like Magma, last week’s stars of theartsdesk’s reissues weekly, Australia’s similarly black-clad Radio Birdman favoured a uniform look. And also in common with the idiosyncratic French combo, they had ...

Thanks to Tim Perlich, today we learned that the documentary film on Australia’s cult act Radio Birdman (1974-78), Descent into the Maelstrom: The Radio Birdman Story, is nearing completion. It has ...

Radio Birdman, one of Australia’s first and best punk bands, broke up in 1978 before they ever got a chance to tour America. Now, the reconstituted Birdman – with four original members, a retooled ...

In 1972 guitarist Deniz Tek left frigid Michigan to attend medical school in sunny Sydney, and wound up doctoring Australian rock-and-roll. Tek's Motor City aggression, learned from bands like the ...

With a table-clearing smash of Who-like power chords, Radio Birdman grandly announced that they were back in the game from the very first track—the appropriately titled “We’ve Come So Far (to Be Here ...

These Australian legends took their spot in the Great Brief Spurt hall of fame when early-80s underground-rock geeks pronounced their 1978 debut LP, Radios Appear, a lost punk classic. (Sire dropped ...