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.

A new Australian production of Noël Coward's classic comedy Private Lives, starring Hugh Bonneville and Lisa McCune, has added a Melbourne season following record first-day ticket demand for its Sydney premiere.

Grammy-nominated instrumental duo DOMi & JD BECK will return to Australia in November for three East Coast theatre shows supporting their second album WHO ASKED?.

Massive Attack's first Australian headline tour in 16 years is set to begin this week after the Bristol collective revealed the setlist performed at their South Korea show on August 1, offering a preview of a career-spanning performance built around Mezzanine favourites, Blue Lines essentials, Heligoland material and unexpected cover versions.

Canadian punk band Propagandhi will return to Australia and Aotearoa in January and February 2027 for their first regional tour in almost eight years, with dates across Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Barwon Heads, Melbourne, Wellington and Auckland supporting their latest album At Peace.

The 2003 Christmas film will be screened with a live symphony orchestra in four Australian cities this December, with performances featuring the score by Craig Armstrong alongside the film's soundtrack.

Paul Kelly will return to Sydney's Kings Cross for a one-off performance at the Potts Point Hotel on 30 August, coinciding with the release of the expanded edition of his 2025 album Seventy and marking another chapter in his long association with the neighbourhood that helped shape his songwriting.

Jimmy Barnes will headline the 2026 One Electric Day festival at Werribee Park, joined by The Living End, Ian Moss, Baby Animals, Chocolate Starfish and Bachelor Girl when the event returns to Victoria this November.

Things of Stone and Wood have released "Fade Away", the latest single from their comeback album Rae Street, while confirming more Australian performances and signalling that a second new studio album will follow later in 2026.

Jason Donovan will be joined by Nadine Garner and Jeremy Proulx when the full cast is unveiled for the new Melbourne production of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, opening at the Athenaeum Theatre in November.

Peter Gabriel has unveiled 'One By One', the latest preview of his forthcoming album O\I, continuing the lunar release strategy that first defined I/O and offering further insight into the conceptual themes behind his next studio project.

Australian musical theatre performers Catherine Alcorn, Sally Bourne, Lena Cruz and Chelsea Gibb will lead the cast of the 2026 Australian production of Menopause The Musical, with the long running international hit returning to Australian stages from August.

Michigan post-hardcore band Chiodos will return to Australia for the first time in more than a decade this November, performing their landmark 2005 debut album All's Well That Ends Well in full across five headline shows with Rain City Drive and The Beautiful Monument.

Wildlands Festival has announced its 2026/27 lineup, bringing together major international electronic artists including John Summit, Skepta, WORSHIP, KI/KI and Disco Lines for New Year's Eve in Brisbane and a January 2027 event in Perth.

SIX The Musical has opened in Melbourne for its third season, bringing the Tudor wives of Henry VIII back to the Comedy Theatre in a pop concert-style production that has developed a dedicated following since its Australian debut in 2022.

ABC will return to Australia in March 2027 for their first full national tour in more than a decade, with Martin Fry leading a six-date celebration of The Lexicon of Love and the band's catalogue of classic pop songs.