Cameron Winter performing solo at Carnegie Hall for Live At Carnegie Hall
Cameron Winter Announces First Live Album, Live At Carnegie Hall

Cameron Winter will release his first live album, Live At Carnegie Hall, documenting his December 2025 solo performance at the New York concert hall.

August 20, 2026
Anya Alchemy Melbourne singer-songwriter portrait for Don’t Say You Never Felt It
Anya Alchemy Teams With Alice Ivy For New Single Don’t Say You Never Felt It

Melbourne singer-songwriter Anya Alchemy has released Don't Say You Never Felt It, a new collaboration with producer and songwriter Alice Ivy that signals a new phase in her evolving alt-pop sound.

August 20, 2026
Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham performing together
Felicity Urquhart And Josh Cunningham Announce 18-Date Go North Go South Tour

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.

August 20, 2026
The Dandy Warhols will return to Australia and New Zealand in November and December 2026 for the Pin Ups tour
The Dandy Warhols Announce 2026 Australian And New Zealand Tour

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.

August 20, 2026
Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2026 artists including Rebirth Brass Band, Benjamin Clementine, BIGYUKI and Haus Party
Melbourne International Jazz Festival Unveils 2026 Program

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.

August 20, 2026
The Tortured Souls Justin Davies Gold-Lined Melancholy
The Tortured Souls Release Gold-Lined Melancholy Ahead Of Debut Album

The Perth collective led by Justin Davies has released Gold-Lined Melancholy, the third single from its forthcoming debut album Unforgettable Days.

August 20, 2026
Bush The Sea Of Memories 15th Anniversary Edition
Bush Celebrate The Sea Of Memories With 15th Anniversary Edition

Bush will mark the 15th anniversary of The Sea Of Memories with a remastered edition featuring nine bonus tracks, due September 25, 2026 through earMUSIC.

August 20, 2026
Aaliyah One In A Million 30th anniversary
Aaliyah’s One In A Million Turns 30

Aaliyah's second album, One In A Million, reached its 30th anniversary earlier this month, marking three decades since the record transformed her artistic direction and helped define a new generation of R&B production.

August 20, 2026
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Type O Negative’s October Rust Turns 30

Type O Negative's fourth studio album, October Rust, turns 30 on August 20, marking three decades since the Brooklyn gothic metal band expanded its sound beyond the heavier foundations of Bloody Kisses.

August 20, 2026
Huey Lewis And The News Fore! album cover
Huey Lewis And The News Fore! Turns 40

Huey Lewis And The News reached the commercial peak of their 1980s run with Fore!, the 1986 album that produced five Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 singles, including the No. 1 hits “Stuck With You” and “Jacob's Ladder”.

August 20, 2026
2026 Art Music Awards winners and performers at The Timber Yard Melbourne
2026 Art Music Awards Winners Announced

Paul Stanhope, Alex Turley, Mindy Meng Wang, Monica Lim, Nat Bartsch and Liza Lim AM were among the major recipients as Australia's art music community gathered in Melbourne for the 2026 Art Music Awards.

August 19, 2026
Strung Out
Strung Out Announce Australian Tour Supports For 30th Anniversary Of Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues

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.

August 19, 2026
Ronnie Wood performing with Hollywood Vampires at The O2 Arena London
Ronnie Wood Joins Hollywood Vampires For Brown Sugar In London

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.

August 19, 2026
David Bowie in 1965 during the Shel Talmy recording sessions
David Bowie Unveils 1965 Demo Today From Shel Talmy Sessions

A previously unreleased 1965 demo, Today, is the latest preview from The Shel Talmy Recordings, a 22-track collection documenting David Bowie's formative recordings with the influential producer.

August 19, 2026
Jimmy Webb portrait for Yours For The Taking: The Found Songs Of Jimmy Webb
Jimmy Webb Opens His Archive For Yours For The Taking

Jimmy Webb will release 13 previously unheard songs on October 23, drawing from compositions written across more than six decades and featuring new recordings with Graham Nash, Michael McDonald, Amy Grant, Marc Cohn and others.

August 19, 2026
Ann Wilson, Heart. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Ann Wilson Announces Consecrated Ground With Tripsitter Ahead Of Australian Tour

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.

August 19, 2026
The Tullamarines return with new single Flight Path in 2026
The Tullamarines Return With New Single “Flight Path”

The Adelaide indie-pop four-piece The Tullamarines turn writer's block, self-doubt and creative burnout into their latest single following a year of international touring and career milestones.

August 19, 2026
Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger documentary poster featuring Liam and Noel Gallagher
Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger Trailer Reveals Emotional Reunion Story

The new documentary captures Liam and Noel Gallagher confronting the history of Oasis as they reunite for the Oasis Live '25 tour.

August 19, 2026
Rodrigo Y Gabriela performing live with acoustic guitars
Rodrigo Y Gabriela Set For January 2027 Australian Tour With OurHome

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.

August 19, 2026
Matilda The Musical Royal Shakespeare Company Australian 2027 tour
Matilda The Musical Returns To Australia In 2027

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.

August 19, 2026
Bayker Blankenship performed at CMC Rocks QLD 2026
Bayker Blankenship Announces First Australian Headline Shows

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

August 19, 2026
Frank Beard, drummer and founding member of ZZ Top, performing with the band
Frank Beard, ZZ Top Drummer And Founding Member, Dies At 77

Frank Beard, the drummer whose precise backbeat helped define ZZ Top across more than five decades, has died at 77.

August 19, 2026
LØLØ photo by Whitney Otte
LØLØ Shares Pretty Little Wreck Ahead Of Good Things Festival

LØLØ has released the new single Pretty Little Wreck ahead of her December appearance at Good Things Festival in Australia.

August 18, 2026
Lobby Loyde Plays With George Guitar
Lobby Loyde’s Plays With George Guitar Reissued By Aztec Records

Aztec Records has reissued Lobby Loyde's landmark 1971 debut solo album Plays With George Guitar, digitally remastered by Gil Matthews, extending a long musical relationship between two key figures in Australian rock history.

August 18, 2026
Mastodon photo by William Lacalmontie
Mastodon Turn Hurricane Helene Into ‘In The Ruins’ On Marrow Deep

Mastodon have released “In The Ruins”, a song shaped by Troy Sanders' experience of Hurricane Helene and the grief surrounding the band's recent losses, ahead of the August 28 release of *Marrow Deep*.

August 18, 2026
Dannielle Gaha
Dannielle Gaha Returns To John Farnham’s Music For Rod Laver Arena Celebration

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.

August 18, 2026
Gary Óg performing live on acoustic guitar
Gary Óg Announces Five-Date Australian Tour For October 2026

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.

August 18, 2026
TV On The Radio performing with Wolf Like Me connection to Spider-Man Brand New Day
TV On The Radio’s Wolf Like Me Finds A New Life In Spider-Man: Brand New Day

TV On The Radio's 2006 hit “Wolf Like Me” has become part of the Spider-Man story, appearing early in Spider-Man: Brand New Day while the song's original video director Jon Watts has his own history with the franchise.

August 18, 2026
Collective Soul Touch And Go album artwork and Eye On You video
Collective Soul Revisit The 1980s On New Album Touch And Go

Collective Soul draw on The Cars and 1980s new wave for Touch And Go, with Eye On You providing the clearest expression of the album's retro influence.

August 18, 2026
Echo and the Bunnymen Apples for Isaac
Echo & The Bunnymen Release The Light That Surrounds You From Apples For Isaac

Echo & The Bunnymen have released The Light That Surrounds You, the latest preview of their first album of new music in 12 years, Apples For Isaac.

August 18, 2026