Andrew Farriss has been writing and creating music most of his life. He was co-founder, keyboardist, and main composer for INXS, the Australian band that rocketed to fame in the 1980’s with songs like ...

There was always something a little disreputable about INXS. Despite being one of the bigger rock bands on the planet for the better part of a decade, releasing a string of critically and commercially ...

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 ...

The members of INXS never believed that their music died with lead singer Michael Hutchence in 1997. But the band faced a problem: how to take 17 years of music, including several big '80s hits, back ...

For most of his music career, Andrew Farriss was happily in the backline for INXS. He was the group’s primary songwriter, mind you, an Australian Songwriter’s Hall of Fame inductee who, with the late ...

The guy who made some of the best dance-rock music ever has been a country fan most of his life. As a teenager growing up in rough-and-tumble Australia, Andrew Farris - cofounder, ...

What was it like to read all these fan memories in the book? Farriss: The books’ amazing. It’s amazing that when people are really dedicated fans of an artist or a band or whatever, they’ll go to ...

Rolling Stone‘s interview series King for a Day features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and singers who had the difficult job of fronting major rock bands after the ...

You know it’s summer when music dominates the calendar — these days both in-person and online. Some major events are on tap for the coming weekend. Six of the most notable include: • Paul McCartney ...