Caroline Rose has announced the new album Gentling The Horse At The Walt Whitman Mall, due October 23 on their newly established SUCK records label, alongside the release of the new single “Chow Mein”.

Tom Waits' 1976 album Small Change will be reissued on vinyl on October 2 to mark its 50th anniversary.

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.

Anthrax have released ‘Everybody's Got A Plan', the third single from their forthcoming album Cursum Perficio, due September 18.

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.

Madonna and Kylie Minogue have officially released their first studio collaboration, ‘Love Sensation (Afterhours Mix)', following its surprise live debut at Madonna's Club Confessions event during WorldPride Amsterdam.

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.

Twenty years after its release, Christina Aguilera's ambitious double album Back To Basics remains one of the defining artistic statements of her career, combining classic jazz, blues and soul influences with contemporary pop and R&B production while marking a significant creative shift for the singer.

Fifty years after its release, Linda Ronstadt's Hasten Down The Wind remains one of the defining albums of the 1970s, cementing her place as one of popular music's most influential voices while expanding the creative boundaries of country rock.

The Monkees singer has released a new video for the Vicki Peterson composition ahead of his six-song Timeless EP, September 4.

British producer and musician William Orbit, whose work reshaped the sound of Madonna, Blur, All Saints and other major artists, has died aged 69.

Bill Armstrong AM, the pioneering Australian recording engineer, studio owner, producer and broadcaster who helped establish the country's modern recording industry and was a founder and managing director of Melbourne's EON-FM, has died aged 97.

Neil Young will release Second Song with The Chrome Hearts on September 18, marking his first studio album following 2025's Talkin To The Trees and bringing together newly recorded material with songs drawn from his early songwriting archive.

The Avalanches will release their fourth studio album, No Bad Memories, on October 16, 2026, alongside new single ‘Can't Get Over Losing You' featuring Portraits of Tracy.

Green Day's new coming-of-age comedy Nimrods follows three teenagers chasing a Green Day concert in Los Angeles, with a 30-track soundtrack spanning the band's catalogue, live recordings and new music.

Ella Hooper has announced her next studio album ‘Overnight Success’, alongside the release of the deeply personal new single ‘When The Shit Went Down’, with a national Australian tour beginning in October.

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.

Bristol band Split Chain have previewed their forthcoming motionblur [DELUXE] with two newly reworked songs featuring Postdrome and Commoner ahead of the digital release on September 11 through Epitaph Records.

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'.

Joan Jett has postponed two September performances after undergoing surgery for a fractured vertebra, while preparations continue for the 45th anniversary reissue of her landmark 1981 album I Love Rock 'N Roll later this month.