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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Mike King will investigate the psychology of high-control groups across six Australian cities, with tickets on sale August 13.

The sixth single from Stanley Simmons' forthcoming debut album Dancing While The World Is Ending is accompanied by a new music video directed by Greg Furman.

Former Models drummer Barton Price explores the connection between composition, memory and visual art in a new exhibition opening in Melbourne on 19 August.

Phil Jamieson has cancelled his entire 2026 PJ Air Tour after slipping on stage during a performance on Friday night and fracturing his L1 vertebra. The Grinspoon frontman was unable to continue the show and was taken by ambulance to Latrobe Regional Hospital, where medical tests confirmed the lower-back injury. Jamieson has been prescribed bed rest and faces an extended recovery period, forcing the cancellation of his national tour just days before the release of his second solo album, 10Charlie.

Heart have completed recording their first studio album in a decade, with Nancy Wilson confirming the new material is scheduled to be delivered to the band's record label by the end of August. The development comes as Ann Wilson prepares for her first Australian solo shows in November with Tripsitter.

Suzi Quatro will return to Australia in November and December 2026 for six headline shows with Baby Animals, followed by four Red Hot Summer appearances alongside an Australian rock line-up.

Katie McNeil Diamond travelled to Melbourne for the Australian premiere, while Broadway creatives Sonny Paladino and Yasmine Lee spent months preparing the Australian company for the musical's first production outside the United States.

Seattle garage rock band The Darts (US) have been announced as special guests for two Australian dates on The Damned's September 2026 Australian tour, joining the pioneering British punk group for concerts in Brisbane and Melbourne.

Australian rock veterans The New Christs have been confirmed as special guests for The Damned's Melbourne concert, adding one of Australia's most enduring underground rock bands to the Australian leg of the British punk pioneers' Final Damnation Tour.

DMA'S have confirmed the support acts for their Australian Tour 2026, with Los Angeles band Automatic, Melbourne's Floodlights and Sleepazoid joining the East Coast run that will also celebrate the 10th anniversary of the band's debut album, Hills End.

Australian singer-songwriter Rick Price will take his new music and career-spanning catalogue on the road this spring with a national acoustic tour built around his latest single, 'Call On Me'.

Perth songwriter and producer Benny J Ward has released the new single 'Fear Of Going Out' through Cheersquad Records & Tapes and announced two Melbourne performances with his live band Benny J & The Psych Ward, featuring members of The Meanies, Even and other Australian alternative rock acts.

Australia's only festival dedicated to The Beatles returns to Bathurst from 20 to 23 August with more than 50 events across four days, as organisers release additional tickets for two previously sold out headline performances.

MaRLo will mark the 10th anniversary of his Altitude festival brand with its largest Australian event to date, featuring a 15,000-capacity production at Flemington Racecourse and a world exclusive back-to-back performance with Will Sparks.

Japanese pop-punk pioneers Shonen Knife will return to Australia this October with a national tour timed to the Australian and New Zealand release of their newly recorded album Let's Knife: Re-Cut, revisiting the record that helped establish the band internationally more than three decades ago.

Swedish guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen has confirmed his 23rd studio album, Hell Or High Water, will be released on 13 November, alongside the premiere of its first single, 'Now Or Never'.

Jimmy Barnes will lead an all Australian line-up for the 2027 edition of Sounds By The River, with Jon Stevens, Birds Of Tokyo, Eskimo Joe, Baby Animals, Chocolate Starfish and Sarah McLeod also confirmed for the South Australian festival.

New Zealand band Six60 will return to Melbourne in November for a one-off performance at the Royal Botanic Gardens as part of the 2026 Live At The Gardens concert series, marking the group's first Melbourne headline appearance in several years.

New Jersey artist Public Works has released the new single ‘Sunburn', the first music to emerge following the project's signing to Hopeless Records. Frontman Jacob Dietrich says the song evolved from memories of summer nights in Seaside Heights into a deeply personal account of the breakdown of a relationship.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Ann Wilson will perform four Australian shows in November as part of her Ann Wilson & Tripsitter, The Voice of Heart tour, marking her first visit to the country as a solo artist. Special guests Dragon will support the dates, which precede her appearance at Carreras & Friends in Brisbane.

ZZ Top have cancelled their scheduled Hollywood Bowl concert with Cheap Trick due to what management has described as "unforeseen personnel matters", with automatic refunds to be issued for all ticket holders.

The St Louis progressive rock band, led by David Surkamp and joined by Iain Matthews, will present their 1975 debut album in its entirety across five Australian cities in July 2027.

Daniel Caesar has expanded his Son Of Spergy Tour with Australian and Latin American dates, bringing his first headline arena tour to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in November 2026 following the release of his fourth studio album.