Midnight Oil

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Rob Hirst Was the Engine of Midnight Oil

January 23, 2026January 24, 2026 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Blue Sky Mine, Blue Sky Mining, Forgotten Years, Midnight Oil, Peter Garrett, RIP, Rob Hirst

Remembering the Australian band’s drummer and songwriter

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Rock 

King of the Mountain: Midnight Oil’s Peter Garrett Turns 70

April 16, 2023April 16, 2023 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment 1988, 1990, 70th Birthday, Australia, Blue Sky Mining, Diesel and Dust, Jim Moginie, Midnight Oil, Peter Garrett, Rob Hirst

Revisiting a pair of archival interviews with the Australian rock legend

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Records 

The Rock & Roll Globe Top 30 Albums of 2022

December 31, 2022December 31, 2022 Rock and Roll Globe Staff 1 Comment $ilkmoney, Alvvays, April March, Beyonce, Billy Woods, Black Star, Black Thought, Cave In, Danger Mouse, Eddie Vedder, Freedy Johnston, Harry Styles, Horace Andy, Kendrick Lamar, Little Simz, Midnight Oil, Pusha T, Robyn Hitchcock, Rosalia, Ry Cooder, Sloan, Spiritualized, Sudan Archives, SZA, Taj Mahal, Taylor Swift, The Beths, The Smile, Urge Overkill, Wet Leg, Weyes Blood

Amidst a sea of key releases, what made this year’s list?

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Alternative Rock New Wave Rock 

The Time Has Come: Midnight Oil’s Diesel and Dust at 35

August 22, 2022August 22, 2022 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 1 Comment 1987, 35th Anniversary, Aborigines, Australia, Beds Are Burning, Bones Hillman, Columbia Records, Diesel and Dust, Jim Moginie, Martin Rotsey, Midnight Oil, Peter Garrett, Peter Gifford, Rob Hirst, The Dead Heart

Looking back on the Australian band’s most successful LP

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Alternative Rock Music Journalism 

Pop Top 40: Modern Rock Tracks for the Week Ending March 24, 1990

April 1, 2020April 1, 2020 T.A. Inskeep 2 Comments Adam Ant, Cowboy Junkies, Depeche Mode, Electronic, Michael Penn, Midnight Oil, Oingo Boingo, Peter Murphy, Pop, Robert Palmer, Sinead O'Connor, Social Distortion, The Beloved, The Blue Nile, The Church, The Cramps, The Creatures, The Smithereens

This is as peak “Poppy Bush Interzone” as it gets

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Folk Indie Rock North Americana 

Josh Rennie-Hynes and the Evolution of Australian Americana

September 3, 2019September 4, 2019 Ron Hart 2 Comments Australia, Josh Rennie-Hynes, Midnight Oil, Paul Kelly, The Ahern Brothers

On a grant from his country’s government, the onetime Ahern Brother heads to Nashville to cut an outstanding third solo album

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