Laneway Festival releases 2025 dates and venues

Our favourite Trans Tasman touring festival, Laneway Festival is marking its return today with confirmation of dates, cities and venues…

Damien Rice announces Australian return for theatre shows in January/February 2025

Following an incredible sold-out tour in May 2023, prolific Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice returns to Australia for an extensive series…

It Thing are keeping at the forefront of music trends

Having emerged as fresh contenders on Melbourne’s art-punk scene after 2021’s debut Syrup, It Thing are back with new EP…

Sigur Rós to embark on Australian orchestral tour in May

Teaming up with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra, the band will deliver their signature ethereal…

R&B star Leon Bridges is coming to Geelong for A Day On The Green

Grammy Award winner and contemporary R&B star Leon Bridges will sweep local audiences off their feet when he returns to Australia in…

“I’m soaring – it feels like a birth”: Agnes Manners has a full-circle moment on new single

Matthew Gravolin is no stranger to the Australian music scene. As the former founder and ex-guitarist of punk rock piece,…

Finding a new reason to dream: CKY celebrate 25 years

“You want a tour of my house? We just moved in, my mum just left actually, we‘ve been loading in…

FINNEAS returns to Australia

GRAMMY® and Academy Award-winning songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, FINNEAS is set to perform in Auckland, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in…

The Ballot for Golden Plains XVII has been unlocked

Back for its seventeenth year, Golden Plains is bound to be mindblowing. Taking place across the weekend of 8, 9…

Kylie Minogue adds new Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane shows to Tension Tour

Following incredible ticket demand in the now exhausted Telstra presale, Frontier Touring confirms three new Australian shows for Kylie’s hugely…

Skegss will soundtrack your next roadtrip with Pacific Highway Music

In Australia’s modern indie-rock scene, Skegss are somewhat like the Red Hot Chili Peppers or Fleetwood Mac. You can put…

The Ferguson Rogers Process will launch new album on the road

Meet Ferguson Rogers Process: a creative coming together of two of Australia’s biggest musical-minds in Tim Rogers (You Am I)…

Kim Churchill announces over 50 shows on ‘Lovely’ tour

Celebrating the announcement of his forthcoming album It’s Lovely To Have You Here, due for release Friday 11 October, Kim…

Katy Perry to give Australia the tour of a Lifetime

TEG DAINTY has this morning announced that one of the best-selling music artists of all time, Katy Perry, is set…

Small but mighty: Omega Ensemble take on Chopin’s piano concerto

Featuring Frédéric Chopin’s spectacular first Piano Concerto, Finnish composer Olli Mustonen‘s Nonet II and a world premiere from exciting new Australian…

The Hard-Ons are running their way into a new sound

Peter ‘Blackie’ Black of the Hard-Ons speaks to me with the softness of an internalised aftermath. The consequential fatigue of…

Notorious Norwegian black metallers, Mayhem return to Australia for 40 year celebration

It has been 40 years since Mayhem introduced the world to the most brutal sounds, styles and stories of the…

Yours and Owls expand booking roster, entering the Victorian market

Wollongong-based music company Yours and Owls has this morning announced a significant expansion of their venue booking roster that sees…

Joan As Police Woman announces 2025 Australian tour dates

Highly acclaimed American songwriter Joan As Police Woman (Joan Wasser) returns to Australia following the success of her 2022 Australian…

Dua Lipa has just announced a fifth and final Melbourne show

Dua Lipa is set to bring her electrifying live show to Australia in 2024, much to the excitement of fans…

How the Geelong Music Network is strengthening Geelong’s music community

For years the strategic question has been asked, “What makes a strong and thriving music scene?”  It’s not a simple…

Fontaines D.C. are back to being risk-takers on Romance record

Having lauded Dogrel (2019), as one of the best punk releases of the last decade, Fontaines D.C.’s two most recent…

Daryl Braithwaite is bringing his ‘You Won’t Go Home Whistling the Lights’ tour to Geelong

Iconic Australian singer/songwriter and ARIA Hall of Fame Inductee Daryl Braithwaite is bringing his You Won’t Go Home Whistling the…

Kasey Chambers announces Backbone Australian tour to kick off 2025

ARIA Hall-of-Famer and revered singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers is heading back on the road, today announcing a massive Backbone Australian Tour…

 

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