Listen to Radio Birdman’s “We’ve Come So Far (To Be Here Today)” from the new album Zeno Beach. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Sometimes, the right guys get ...

The ARIA Hall of Fame inductees are billing the shows as “farewell performances”, but whether or not the tour will indeed mark their final swansong remains to be seen. “The rationale is to go out ...

Radio Birdman, one of Australia’s first and best punk bands, broke up in 1978 before they ever got a chance to tour America. Now, the reconstituted Birdman – with four original members, a retooled ...

In 1972 guitarist Deniz Tek left frigid Michigan to attend medical school in sunny Sydney, and wound up doctoring Australian rock-and-roll. Tek's Motor City aggression, learned from bands like the ...

Thanks to Tim Perlich, today we learned that the documentary film on Australia’s cult act Radio Birdman (1974-78), Descent into the Maelstrom: The Radio Birdman Story, is nearing completion. It has ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

There are no showtimes for Descent Into the Maelstrom The Untold Story of Radio Birdman. You can stream it or buy it on digital platforms below.

With a table-clearing smash of Who-like power chords, Radio Birdman grandly announced that they were back in the game from the very first track—the appropriately titled “We’ve Come So Far (to Be Here ...

These Australian legends took their spot in the Great Brief Spurt hall of fame when early-80s underground-rock geeks pronounced their 1978 debut LP, Radios Appear, a lost punk classic. (Sire dropped ...

Because second acts in rock are tiresome, it would seem Radio Birdman's reunion is a completely unnecessary exercise by a band whose existence was roughly as obscure as it was brief. But nearly 30 ...