One of the premier bands of the 1980s, Australia's Midnight Oil is plotting a return to international prominence with that unmistakable big-bass, big-drum sound and the charismatic, herky-jerky ...

The Midnight Oil warrior faces the fight of his life as he deals with stage 3 cancer, armed, as ever, with songs.

Bones Hillman, bassist and singer for politically charged Australian rock group Midnight Oil, died Saturday at his home in Milwaukee following a battle with cancer. He was 62. "He was the bassist with ...

Sometime around the day when “the music died,” on February 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly’s plane crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing him, Ritchie Valens and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, depending ...

Reunion tours are a dime a dozen these days. Leave it to the seasoned Australian band Midnight Oil — currently on their first world tour in two decades, dubbed “The Great Circle 2017” — to raise the ...

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- The former lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil announced Thursday that he will run for parliament with the opposition Labour Party - and party leaders said ...

The music of Peter Garrett has always been politically charged. Now the towering, baldheaded former singer of Midnight Oil is charged with practicing politics -- as Australia's new environment ...