Hollywood Vampires have announced the release of At Montreux Jazz Festival, a new live album documenting the supergroup's 2018 performance at the renowned Swiss festival and featuring previously unreleased cover recordings, including a tribute to Motörhead's Lemmy with Ace Of Spades.

Forge Festival will launch in Melbourne on Halloween with a multi-band bill at The Leadbeater Hotel in Richmond, featuring the return of Scar The Surface for their first performance in 12 years.

L.A.B will headline the inaugural Australian edition of 8TH Wonder, a new trans-Tasman festival bringing together artists from Aotearoa, Australia and the Pacific for a one-day event in Brisbane in January 2027.

The Presets will reunite with longtime contemporaries Cut Copy and Ladyhawke for a new touring event, Foreverafter, which will visit Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in January 2027, bringing together artists who helped define Australia's electronic music boom of the 2000s.

Neil Young's 1996 album Broken Arrow captured a band in transition and became the final chapter in a remarkable decade of rock records with Crazy Horse before its songs were documented on the live album and film Year Of The Horse.

Victor Willis, the founding lead singer and co-writer behind Village People's biggest hits including Y.M.C.A., Macho Man and In The Navy, has died at the age of 75 following a short illness.

A newly uploaded performance of Skyhooks playing their 1990 hit Jukebox In Siberia on Hey Hey It's Saturday has revived interest in one of the band's final chart triumphs and its enduring connection to Australian television history.

Snow Patrol have signed a new global recording agreement with BMG and will launch the partnership with the release of a new collaboration with Kylie Minogue, titled These Alarms.

Italian synthwave rock project V.B.O., featuring Wind Rose frontman Francesco Cavalieri and producer Simone Giusti, has released a new interpretation of Duran Duran's 1984 hit ‘The Wild Boys' ahead of the arrival of the band's debut album Vice Business Only.

Canadian hard rock artist Royale Lynn has released new single ‘Altar', accompanied by a new music video that expands on the dark pop and metal elements introduced on her debut album Black Magic.

Steve Hogarth, the long-serving frontman of Marillion, will perform in Australia for the first time this December, bringing his audience-led solo show H Natural to Sydney and Melbourne.

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Hugh Bonneville and Lisa McCune will star in a new Australian production of Noël Coward's classic comedy Private Lives, opening at Theatre Royal Sydney in February 2027 for a limited five week season.

NYE On The Hill will return to South Gippsland this summer with Ball Park Music, The Rions, Old Mervs and Pacific Avenue leading a line-up of more than 30 acts for the boutique Victorian festival.

Anjunadeep will return this summer with two standalone events in Sydney and Melbourne, marking the influential electronic label's first Australian shows in several years and coinciding with the 20th anniversary celebrations of promoter Finely Tuned.

Riley! have unveiled their new single 'Two Bucks', featuring Heart Attack Man's Eric Egan, ahead of the release of the Texas emo band's forthcoming EP To Live And Die In The American South on July 17 through Pure Noise Records.

Melbourne power pop veterans Icecream Hands will release Pineapple Pieces on 7 August, a four-track companion EP drawn from the recording sessions for their 2025 album Giant Fox Pineapple Tree.

Colin Hay celebrated his 73rd birthday with a deeply personal solo performance at Melbourne Recital Centre, delivering two hours of songs and stories that felt less like a concert and more like an intimate gathering with old friends.

Boy George has launched Artist Included, a new music and technology company that aims to help legacy artists create new master recordings using artist approved artificial intelligence, debuting with a newly recorded version of Culture Club's classic hit "Karma Chameleon".

Adelaide progressive metal band Control The Sun have returned with their second single, ‘Pyre', building on the momentum created by their debut release and first live appearance earlier this year.

Bad Wolves have unveiled a new line-up and released their first new music of 2026, introducing Sara "Killboy" Skinner as the band's new vocalist on the single ‘Paint It Red'.

GWAR have launched a fundraising campaign to support founding member Chuck Varga as the musician and artist continues treatment for cancer, with proceeds helping cover his medical and living expenses.

The Ace Frehley Band has cancelled its planned Australian tour for September 2026, one week after promoter Silverback Touring and founder Danny Bazzi came under scrutiny in a television investigation over alleged unpaid debts and refund issues.

The 2026 Art Music Awards will return to Melbourne in August, bringing together composers, performers and industry leaders to celebrate achievements across Australia's contemporary classical, jazz and experimental music communities.

Forty years after its release, Eurythmics' fifth album Revenge remains one of the duo's defining records, delivering global hits including 'Missionary Man', 'Thorn In My Side', 'When Tomorrow Comes' and 'The Miracle Of Love'.

Madonna's third album, True Blue, arrived on 30 June 1986 and became a defining release of the decade, producing five hit singles and establishing her as one of the most successful artists in popular music history.

Sixty years after its release, The Cyrkle's debut album Red Rubber Ball remains a snapshot of mid-1960s American pop, driven by the enduring success of its title track, co-written by The Seekers' Bruce Woodley and Paul Simon.

Big Country's third album The Seer turns 40 this month, marking a pivotal release that delivered the band's biggest UK hit single, a landmark collaboration with Kate Bush and a return to the Celtic influences that defined their early success.

Mental As Anything are once again digging deep into their catalogue, with founding members Peter O'Doherty and Reg Mombassa steering the band back towards the guitar driven sound that shaped the group's early years.

Level 42 will make their long-awaited Australian debut in January 2027, bringing their acclaimed World Machine album and a career-spanning set of hits to local audiences for the first time.