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Metallica turned their Brisbane M72 show into a Queensland punk celebration, surprising fans with a stadium-shaking cover of The Chats’ Smoko.

Brisbane announces new outdoor music series On The Banks for March 2026 featuring De La Soul, The Streets, Bernard Fanning, Peach PRC and Marlon Williams.

Eddie Izzard will return to Australia in June 2026 for a national tour of her acclaimed one-person staging of The Tragedy Of Hamlet, performing in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.

Cornel Wilczek, Megan Washington and Joff Bush were among the major winners at the 2025 Screen Music Awards in Brisbane, celebrating the best in Australian screen music across film, television and gaming.

4ZZZ marks five decades with ZED50 at Roma Street Parklands on 25 October 2025, a two-stage celebration headlined by The Saints 73-78 and Regurgitator, featuring a broad cross-section of Brisbane talent.

ROYA will debut in Australia in January 2026 with a three-date east coast run. The Danish duo will perform in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

Tommy Richman will bring his Coyote Tour to Australia this November, with Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne shows announced. Trevor Spitta joins as special guest.

Fire Records will release Long March Through the Jazz Age, the last recordings of Chris Bailey and The Saints, on 28 November 2025. The release will arrive just days after what would have been Bailey’s 69th birthday, serving as a poignant final chapter in the story of one of Australia’s most important and influential bands.

On 8 December 1975, Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZ (Triple Zed) launched one month after the Gough Whitlam Dismissal with announcer John Woods being transmission with The Who ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’.

Brisbane will be treated to a special event with Iceland’s Sigur Rōs performing tonight at QPAC.

Brisbane is the benefactor of a new music event Night In The Parklands off the back of the successful Sydney event Night at the Barracks.

Ed Kuepper and Ivor Hay will take the 2024 edition of The Saints into 2025 for the UK in November for (so far) five shows.

The playing times for artists on. Knotfest Australia 2024 have been revealed for the three shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park will head to Australia in September as a guest speaker for the BigSound music conference.

Elton John’s Farewell Hello Brick Road tour has signed off for Australia with his final performance in Brisbane on Saturday. (21 January 2023).

The 2021 Bigsound music conference in Queensland has been cancelled.

Henry Rollins has been announced as the keynote speaker for BigSound 2021.

Drummer Queens, a new original Australian theatre production, will premiere for performances in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in 2021.

The FireFight Australia bushfire benefit concert had more than one million viewers across Australia on Sunday.

Queen + Adam Lambert’s first Australian show in Brisbane last night was a washout but, like the song, the show must go on.

Queen’s Brian May shouted down an arse-clown from Channel 7 after the intrusive cameraman disrupted Brian’s personal time while posing with fans at Brisbane airport.

Spod has directed the new DZ Deathrays video ‘In-To-It’ with help from Alexander Orlando Smith.

Brisbane’s own Ballpark Music will headline the opening night for the cities newest music venue The Fortitude Music Hall.

The Bennies and King Parrot will shake Brisbane for Halloween 2018.

The Bigsound music conference and festival has announced the first 75 acts to play the the event for 2018.

Major new titles coming this week from: Sheppard, Lily Allen, Lykke Li, Megadeth, The Bamboos, The Charlatans, Kanye West & Kid Cudi, The Beach Boys, Sugarland, Dierks Bentley and The Mavis’s.

Sheppard formed in Brisbane in 2009 with siblings George, Amy and Emma Sheppard with Jason Bovino and Michael Butler joining in 2011 and drummer Dean Gordon joining in 2013.

Brisbane musician Fergus Miller aka Bored Nothing, has died at the age of 26.

Madonna was having a bit of fun at her Brisbane show on Wednesday night. She even performed a Kylie Minogue song.

Radio rating around Australia were released today with the Triple J network continuing to dominate the prized 25-39 year old demographic in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.