Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham performing together
Felicity Urquhart And Josh Cunningham Announce 18-Date Go North Go South Tour

Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham will take Everything Around You on the road with an 18-date Go North Go South Tour across NSW and Victoria.

August 20, 2026
The Dandy Warhols will return to Australia and New Zealand in November and December 2026 for the Pin Ups tour
The Dandy Warhols Announce 2026 Australian And New Zealand Tour

The Dandy Warhols will return to Australia and New Zealand in November and December 2026 for the Pin Ups tour, including a first Australian orchestral collaboration with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and an appearance at Meredith Festival.

August 20, 2026
Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2026 artists including Rebirth Brass Band, Benjamin Clementine, BIGYUKI and Haus Party
Melbourne International Jazz Festival Unveils 2026 Program

Melbourne International Jazz Festival will bring more than 550 artists from 18 countries to the city from 16 to 25 October, with 150-plus events across 30 venues.

August 20, 2026
Strung Out
Strung Out Announce Australian Tour Supports For 30th Anniversary Of Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues

Strung Out will bring their 30th anniversary celebration of Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues to Australia in September, with local punk acts joining the band across eight headline shows.

August 19, 2026
Ronnie Wood performing with Hollywood Vampires at The O2 Arena London
Ronnie Wood Joins Hollywood Vampires For Brown Sugar In London

Ronnie Wood joined the Hollywood Vampires at The O2 Arena in London for a surprise performance of The Rolling Stones' “Brown Sugar”, a song the Stones retired from their own live repertoire because of its controversial lyrics.

August 19, 2026
Ann Wilson, Heart. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Ann Wilson Announces Consecrated Ground With Tripsitter Ahead Of Australian Tour

Ann Wilson will release her second studio album with Tripsitter, Consecrated Ground, on September 25, extending her solo recording career ahead of her first Australian shows as a solo artist.

August 19, 2026
Rodrigo Y Gabriela performing live with acoustic guitars
Rodrigo Y Gabriela Set For January 2027 Australian Tour With OurHome

Rodrigo Y Gabriela will return to Australia in January 2027 for six national dates supporting their forthcoming album OurHome, a record shaped by Japan, personal loss and a renewed focus on acoustic guitar.

August 19, 2026
Matilda The Musical Royal Shakespeare Company Australian 2027 tour
Matilda The Musical Returns To Australia In 2027

The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Matilda The Musical will return to Australia in 2027, opening at Melbourne's Princess Theatre before seasons in Sydney and Brisbane.

August 19, 2026
Bayker Blankenship performed at CMC Rocks QLD 2026
Bayker Blankenship Announces First Australian Headline Shows

Bayker Blankenship will return to Australia in December for three headline dates in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane following his CMC Rocks QLD debut.

August 19, 2026
Dannielle Gaha
Dannielle Gaha Returns To John Farnham’s Music For Rod Laver Arena Celebration

Dannielle Gaha, the former John Farnham vocalist whose 1989 duet “Communication” became a Top 20 Australian hit, will return to Farnham's music for The Songs Of John Farnham: A Living Legend at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena on September 20.

August 18, 2026
Gary Óg performing live on acoustic guitar
Gary Óg Announces Five-Date Australian Tour For October 2026

Gary Óg will return to Australia in October for five performances across Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth, revisiting the repertoire that has defined his three-decade career in Irish rebel and folk music.

August 18, 2026
XMusic Australian rock showcase at Soapbox Beer Brisbane
XMusic Announces Three Nights Of Rock In Brisbane

XMusic will stage three nights of Australian rock, hard rock and metal at Soapbox in Fortitude Valley from September 1 to 3, marking five years of the independent label.

August 17, 2026
Smokie 2026
Smokie Announce Australian Greatest Hits Tour For 2027

Smokie will return to Australia in February and March 2027 for a national Greatest Hits Tour spanning 11 dates and revisiting the songs that established the Bradford band as one of the defining British pop-rock acts of the 1970s.

August 17, 2026
Deep Purple photo from earMusic
Ritchie Blackmore Reunites With Deep Purple After 33 Years

Ritchie Blackmore Reunites With Deep Purple For First Time In 33 Years Ritchie Blackmore returned to the Deep Purple stage at Jones Beach in New York for the first time since his 1993 departure, joining the band for Smoke On The Water during the encore.

August 13, 2026
Dom Dolla
Dom Dolla Announces Green Velvet, Torren Foot And RONA. B2B DJ JNETT For Melbourne Stadium Show

Dom Dolla has announced the special guests for his September Marvel Stadium homecoming, with Green Velvet, Torren Foot and RONA. b2b DJ JNETT joining the Australian-exclusive event.

August 13, 2026
Petite Biscuit
Petit Biscuit Announces Australian Tour Ahead Of New Album Insomnia

French electronic artist Petit Biscuit will tour Australia in September and October, with the shows preceding the release of his new album, Insomnia, on 21 October.

August 13, 2026
Meredith 2026
Meredith 34 Lineup Announced With Dijon, Underscores, Eddy Current Suppression Ring And Killing Heidi

blockquote> Meredith 34 will bring an eclectic international and Australian lineup to the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre from 11 to 13 December 2026, with the second round of the festival's ticket ballot now open.

August 13, 2026
The Saints 2026
The Saints ’73-’78 Announce Live At Club ’76 And 2027 Australian Tour

The Saints '73-'78 will release a newly unearthed 1976 live recording, Live At Club '76, alongside an Australian tour marking 50 years since the release of (I'm) Stranded.

August 13, 2026
Dave Hill
A Perfect Circle Add Dave Hill To Australia And New Zealand Tour

Dave Hill will join A Perfect Circle and Puscifer for the band's December 2026 Australia and New Zealand tour, adding a comedy and live music component to the six-date run.

August 12, 2026
D.A.D.
D-A-D Return To Australia For The Very Best Of Tour

Danish rock veterans D-A-D will return to Australia and New Zealand in March 2027 for a five-date run built around the songs that have defined more than four decades of the band's career.

August 12, 2026
Massive Attack photo by Jonathan White, Rod Laver Arena, www.instagram.com/rodlaverarena
Massive Attack Turn Rod Laver Arena Into A Political Battleground

Massive Attack brought their first Melbourne headline show in 16 years to Rod Laver Arena, combining a career-spanning set with an uncompromising audiovisual examination of Gaza, surveillance, capitalism, climate change, Donald Trump and the concentration of global wealth.

August 12, 2026
Suzi Quatro performing live during her 42nd Australian tour
Suzi Quatro Interview: 42nd Australian Tour, Freedom & More

Suzi Quatro is returning to Australia for her 42nd tour, and she has no shortage of stories to tell.

August 12, 2026
Colin Hay performing with Men At Work during their 2026 Australian tour
Men At Work To Play Red Hot Summer Sideshows In Australia 2026

Colin Hay will lead the current Men At Work line-up with four additional Australian tour dates in October and November, marking 45 years since the release of the band's landmark debut album, Business As Usual.

August 12, 2026
The Rubens announce Group Therapy album and Australian national tour
The Rubens Announce Group Therapy Album And National Tour

The Rubens will release their sixth studio album, Group Therapy, and take the new record on an extensive Australian tour beginning in October.

August 12, 2026
David Berry, Bert LaBonté and Rodger Corser cast in The Shawshank Redemption Australian stage production
The Shawshank Redemption Announces Australian Cast For 2027 Stage Tour

David Berry, Bert LaBonté and Rodger Corser will lead the Australian stage production of The Shawshank Redemption from January 2027.

August 11, 2026
David McCormack with TRS80
David McCormack’s TRS80 Announces September Shows And New Single Home Surgery

David McCormack's TRS80 will release new single Home Surgery and perform three Australian shows in September with Trevor Ludlow And The Hellraisers, The Stress Of Leisure and Map Ends.

August 11, 2026
Limp Bizkit headline the Good Things Festival 2026 lineup
Good Things Festival 2026 Lineup Led By Limp Bizkit

Limp Bizkit will headline Good Things Festival 2026, with the nu metal pioneers leading a major alternative music lineup across Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane this December. The festival will also feature Simple Plan, Spiritbox, Polaris, The All-American Rejects, Bad Religion, Alexisonfire, Grinspoon, Millencolin, Ministry, MxPx, Neck Deep, P.O.D., The Devil Wears Prada and a broad selection of Australian and international acts.

August 11, 2026
Jaime Martin
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Announces 2027 Season With Beethoven, Australian Premieres And New Leadership

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will mark its 121st year in 2027 with a season combining major symphonic repertoire, new Australian commissions, international artists and performances designed to broaden access to orchestral music across Melbourne and Victoria.

August 10, 2026
Rolling Thunder
Rolling Thunder The Concert Announces January 2027 Australian Tour

Songs That Defined A Generation will bring the music of the 1960s and 1970s to Queensland stages in January 2027.

August 10, 2026
Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ansari Announces Australian And New Zealand Tour For 2026

The comedian, actor, writer and director will bring his new Hypothetical stand-up show to Auckland, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in September and October.

August 10, 2026