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Steph Strings will release her debut album Feel Alive in January 2026. The Melbourne artist shares the new single Devil Woman and confirms global tour dates.

Kaiser Chiefs will return to Australia in November to celebrate 20 years of Employment, joined by The Delta Riggs for a national tour.

Laufey continues her holiday tradition with Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town, following a global breakthrough year and record-breaking tour.

Former Squeeze drummer and celebrated portrait artist Gilson Lavis has died aged 74. Lavis was the rhythmic force behind some of the most influential British pop songs of the late 1970s and 1980s.

Deep Purple’s fearless 1975 studio album Come Taste The Band reaches its 50th anniversary, celebrating the daring Mark IV line-up with Tommy Bolin.

Ninajirachi has won the 21st SoundMerch Australian Music Prize for I Love My Computer, adding another milestone to a breakout year.

Metallica’s Kirk Hammett will bring The Collection: Live to Sydney for a special one-night conversation event celebrating his new guitar book.

Spotify has been hit with lawsuits alleging Discovery Mode functions like pay-for-play, and that fraudulent streaming inflates play counts. Our balanced review explains the issues and implications for artists and listeners

Metallica paid tribute to The Angels in Adelaide with a powerful performance of Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again, just one week after Jelly Roll saluted the same classic in Melbourne.

BASSINTHEGRASS returns to Darwin’s Mindil Beach on 16 May 2026 with Peking Duk, The Teskey Brothers, G Flip and more on a stacked line-up.

Korpiklaani have released an English-language version of their cover of Joe Jackson’s ‘Got The Time’, famously covered by Anthrax. The track blends folk metal frenzy with punk-thrash energy.

Crowded House will headline the first Golden Hour concert on Bondi Beach in February 2026, alongside Thelma Plum for a new annual end-of-summer event.

American alt-rock band Rain City Drive will visit Australia for the first time in March 2026, performing five shows nationwide with support from TX2 and Melrose Avenue.

Smokey Robinson And The Miracles mark the 60th anniversary of ‘Going To A Go Go’, the Motown classic that delivered four iconic singles and cemented Robinson as a soul pioneer.

Sydney Festival celebrates 50 years in January 2026 with Hot Chip at the Opera House, First Nations leadership, free outdoor events and international performance premieres across the city.

Skindred Forge A New Chapter With You Got This, A Title Track Built On Resilience, Coming April 17 On Earache Records.

Delaney Bailey will release her debut album Concave in January 2026, unveiling an emotional, atmospheric world shaped by grief, growth and romantic-era influence.

UK duo The Itch mourn lost nightlife culture with new single Space In The Cab, ahead of their First Fifty appearance at The Great Escape.

Billy F Gibbons will hit the road in January and February 2026 for 28 U.S. dates with drummer Chris Layton and organist Mike Flanigin.

Nick Cave’s The Death Of Bunny Munro arrives on BINGE 20 November, starring Matt Smith and scored by Cave and Warren Ellis.

Blackbriar honour All Hallows’ Eve with a haunting new piano parlour version of The Fossilised Widow, drawn from their gothic masterpiece A Thousand Little Deaths.

Cat Power will celebrate 20 years of The Greatest in 2026 with the Redux EP and a full-album world tour featuring her Dirty Delta Blues band.

Dirty Three will return to North America in 2026 for their first U.S. and Canadian shows in 14 years, following their 2024 comeback album Love Changes Everything.

The Cure’s The Show of a Lost World concert film arrives in cinemas on 11 December, capturing their one-night-only 2024 performance of Songs of a Lost World in full, plus a tribute to Seventeen Seconds.

Dita Von Teese will return to Australia in August 2026 with Nocturnelle, her most opulent live production yet. Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane dates confirmed.

The Growlers will return to Australia in January 2026 for their first tour in six years, joined by Melbourne’s The Grogans on most East Coast dates.

South Summit launch a new creative era with We Are, a gritty, beat-driven anthem ahead of exclusive Melbourne and Sydney shows and major global dates.

José González returns with his tender new Spanish-language single ‘Pajarito’, a whimsical acoustic song inspired by childhood and independence, paired with an AI-crafted video.

Alan Niven, former manager of Guns N’ Roses, has launched legal action claiming the band is preventing the release of his memoir Sound N’ Fury. The book is printed but blocked pending a court ruling.