The eclectic tracks from INXS' breakout album "Kick" ricocheted across pop and rock radio in 1988: From the funk-rock No. 1 leadoff single "Need You Tonight," to the frenetic pace of the ...

Electronic drums and power chords signal the album-opener Guns In The Sky, Hutchence’s vocal spitting across the track, before we get to the jangly-guitared New Sensation, where Beers’ pedalled ...

An unprecedented set of rock and pop blockbusters came out of 1987: U2’s “The Joshua Tree,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Tunnel of Love” and Guns N’ Roses “Appetite for Destruction” on one side, Michael ...

INXS kick another chart milestone with The Very Best, the Australian alternative rock band’s career retrospective.On the latest ARIA Albums Chart, the best-of its enters week 375 in the Top 50, and a ...

Andrew Farriss invited high school classmate Michael Hutchence to join his band Doctor Dolphin in Sydney, Australia in the mid-’70s. Over the next few years, Farriss’s brothers Jon and Tim joined the ...

“I’ve never been as nervous as I am right now for any show I’ve ever done,” said Courtney Barnett. That's because the Australian singer/songwriter wasn't playing a normal set—she was getting ready to ...

Singer Michael Hutchence died in 1997 and INXS stopped touring in 2012. This sets up the perfect opportunity for a tribute band called Kick – The INXS Experience. Kick lead singer Cory Massi even ...

Alexander Burchardt doesn’t look anything like Michael Hutchence. Yes, he’s handsome like the INXS singer, and has a similarly defined jawline, but the resemblance stops there. But through ...

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Thirteen years after the premature death of their frontman, Australian rockers INXS still have not settled on a full-fledged replacement. But the five members of the most successful homegrown rock act ...