Playlisted: Everything you need to know about Australian music right now

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Featuring Powderfinger, Kylie, The Presets, The Drones, Silverchair, Jet, INXS, Sarah Blasko, Eskimo Joe, The Veronicas, The Living End, Australian Crawl, You Am I, Delta Goodrem and many more, Playlisted takes the pulse of Australian rock 'n roll with a series of short, sharp chapters from music journalist Craig Mathieson. Smart, opinionated, funny and often controversial, each chapter launches from a single significant track on an illuminating musical journey - into an underrated album or an overrated career. It's neither encyclopaedic nor heavy-handed, preferring to cut to the chase while mixing together rock stars and pop princesses, artists and frauds. It will have you digging through your music collection, and searching out the new acts discovered within.

Craig Mathieson is the author of "Hi-Fi Days" and "The Sell-In, " and he writes about music for the" Age," "Rolling Stone," and the" Sydney Morning Herald. "He is also a former editor of "Juice "and "Max" magazines and spent six years as the film critic for the "Bulletin."