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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Midnight Oil 's Rob Hirst has unveiled a deeply personal new EP, A Hundred Years or More, recorded while undergoing treatment ...

Australian rockers Midnight Oil interrupted their Portland concert Monday night at Revolution Hall to honor the victims of Friday's MAX stabbing. "We're very upset about hearing what happened to these ...