Hilltop Hoods was flogged on Triple J and became festival favourites off the back of the party-starting anthem “The Nosebleed Section”, which famously sampled “People in the Front Row” by American ...

"Flower Power"-era performer Melanie's children Beau Jarred, Leilah and Jeordie have honored her legacy by re-recording a collection of her lullabies.

When Melanie Safka made her way to Woodstock in 1969, she was an unknown 22-year-old singer-songwriter without a hit to her name. She must have been the only performer driven to the festival by ...

Melanie's discography includes her Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper "Brand New Key" (which Ray Charles and Nina Simone released their own renditions of), "What Have They Done to My Song Ma" and "Lay ...

In the early Seventies, Safka left Buddah Records to set up her own Neighbourhood Records with Schekeryk. Brand New Key topped the US charts and featured on her most acclaimed album, Gather Me.

An anthem now all but cemented in the Great Australian Songbook, the breakout 2003 track famously samples 'People in the Front Row', a 1972 track by Melanie Safka.

It was her appearance at the Woodstock festival in upstate New York in August 1969 that helped propel Melanie Safka to stardom. Performing as Melanie, she had already released two albums, which ...

Melanie’s sing-song pop smash “Brand New Key” seems innocuous today, but when it was released in 1971, it was considered fairly risqué. A deep dive.

Melanie, the singer-songwriter who rose through the New York folk scene, performed at Woodstock and had a series of 1970s hits including the enduring cultural phenomenon “Brand New Key,” has died.

She was 76. Born Melanie Safka, the singer rose through the New York folk scene and was one of only three solo women to perform at Woodstock.