Hilltop Hoods, Violent Soho and Amy Shark lead a seven-act lineup for festival dates in Perth, Melbourne and Wollongong.

KALEO will return to Australia and New Zealand in February 2027 for the Way Down Under We Go Tour, revisiting the catalogue that established the Icelandic band internationally.

Things Of Stone And Wood will release their second album of 2026, The Final Forest, ahead of a national album launch tour in November.

The Wallflowers will make their Australian debut in December, performing Bringing Down the Horse in full alongside Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Long After Dark.

Bonnaroo will not take place in 2027, with organisers giving the festival grounds in Manchester, Tennessee, a year to recover after repeated severe weather events.

The Sunnyboys' 1981 debut will be revisited in a four-LP box set featuring previously unreleased vinyl material, archival recordings and a 32-page booklet, alongside the first book dedicated to the landmark album.

Rise Against, James Blake, DMA'S, Wolf Alice, Dizzee Rascal, Dylan Gossett, Spacey Jane and The Amity Affliction lead the first announcement for the fifth On The Steps summer concert series.

Rare Records will celebrate 35 years in Melbourne with Mammal, Sydonia, .hinge, Bushido and Tyson & Forbes at 170 Russell on October 31.

Hypersonic Festival will return to Melbourne and Sydney in November with Armin Van Buuren, W&W, Showtek, Timmy Trumpet and Hybrid Minds among the announced headliners.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.