Cosmic Psychos have been elevated to headline status at Thrashville 2026 after American punk pioneers FEAR were forced to withdraw from their long-awaited Australian tour due to health concerns involving frontman Lee Ving.

Brian Fallon will release his first solo album in more than five years this September, with Not Bad For New Jersey featuring guest appearances from Brandon Flowers, Phil Collen, Lori McKenna and Marc Ribot.

Canadian alternative psych-rock outfit Meltt have unveiled their new album Pathways, a 13-track collection that arrives as the Vancouver quartet prepare for an extensive North American headline tour. The release marks the band's first full-length project since 2023's Eternal Embers and captures a period of significant personal and creative change for the four musicians as they navigate the transition from their twenties into a new stage of life.

Sydney roots rock outfit Joeys Coop have announced the release of their third album, Sawdust Memories, due on July 3, alongside a national run of shows stretching across the second half of 2026. The band has also unveiled the album's lead single, In The Pines, which arrives today and will be officially launched at Sydney's MoshPit venue on June 25.

Australian music will take a prominent place in the Melbourne International Film Festival's first reveal for 2026, with the world premiere of Jebediah: Are We OK? and the Australian screening of The Best Summer emerging as two of the standout music titles in the festival's opening announcement. The films revisit pivotal moments in alternative music culture, one through the story of a Perth band that survived three decades together, the other through newly discovered footage from one of Australia's most significant music festivals of the 1990s.

Slow Pulp have revealed details of their third studio album Melodie, due for release on 18 September through ANTI-, alongside the release of the album's lead single ‘Better Man'. The announcement marks the next chapter for the Chicago based quartet, who have steadily built a reputation as one of the more distinctive voices in contemporary American indie rock since emerging from Wisconsin's underground music scene a decade ago.

American deathcore outfit Left To Suffer have released ‘Gun In The Duffle Bag', the first track issued since the band formally joined Hopeless Records earlier this year. The song arrives six weeks after the Atlanta group announced its signing to the influential independent label and serves as the first indication of the band's creative direction under the new partnership.

Rick Beato, the producer, educator and one of YouTube's most influential music commentators, will visit Australia and New Zealand for a series of live shows in October 2026.

Simple Minds will return to Australia in February 2027 for a five-date arena tour celebrating five decades of music, with electronic music pioneer Gary Numan joining the tour as special guest.

Australian Grammy Award winner Cassian will return home this spring for two major outdoor headline performances in Sydney and Melbourne, marking his first Australian headline dates since a sold-out national run earlier this year.

Fifty years after its release on June 11, 1976, Neil Diamond's Beautiful Noise remains one of the defining albums of his career, a record that reshaped his artistic direction and launched a new phase of commercial and creative success. Arriving at a crucial point in Diamond's career, the album paired the singer-songwriter with Robbie Robertson of The Band and delivered a sound that expanded beyond the familiar pop framework that had made him an international star.

Motörhead has announced the seventh instalment of its ongoing Lemmy Forever initiative, with a new ceremony set to take place at Download Festival in Donington on June 12, 2026. The event will see a miniature version of Lemmy Kilmister's custom urn, containing a portion of the late Motörhead founder's ashes, installed at the festival's Lemmy's Lounge as part of a permanent tribute to one of rock music's most enduring figures.

Former Beastie Boys headquarters and recording space G-Son Studios is being restored and reopened as a community arts centre and live venue, with a new Kickstarter campaign launched to fund the revival of the historic Atwater Village site in Los Angeles.

Julie Hagerty and Robert Hays, the stars of the 1980 comedy classic Airplane! (released as Flying High in Australia), are reuniting for Airplane! Live, a touring event combining a full screening of the film with an on-stage conversation and audience Q&A. The tour revisits one of cinema's most influential parody comedies, with new behind-the-scenes reflections from its principal cast members.

Dustin Lynch turned CMA Fest 2026 into a two-part takeover, returning with his Pool Situation: Nashville and Nightlife Party Club Set, drawing thousands across rooftop and club events that have become annual fixtures in the festival calendar while his single “Easy To Love” continues its climb at country radio.