Canberra music

Scottish producer, DJ, singer, and songwriter Sam Gellaitry has officially entered a defining new chapter with the release of his long-awaited debut album Anywhere Here Is Perfect via Major Recordings / Warner Records. Already celebrated as one of electronic music's most inventive voices, Gellaitry now steps forward as a full-form artist, pairing his kaleidoscopic sound design with vulnerable lyricism and cinematic electronic production.

The Damned will pay tribute to their late founding guitarist Brian James with a powerful new covers album, Not Like Everybody Else, due for release on 23 January 2026 through earMUSIC. The record arrives as the punk icons mark their 50th anniversary, with founding drummer Rat Scabies reuniting with Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible, and Paul Gray for their first studio recording together in four decades.

Chicago singer-songwriter Delaney Bailey will release her sophomore album Concave on 21 January 2026 through AWAL, previewed by her atmospheric new single Far Away.

St. Paul & The Broken Bones have arrived at a new chapter in their journey, releasing their self-titled sixth studio album St. Paul & The Broken Bones today through their own label Oasis Pizza Records, distributed by Thirty Tigers. The Alabama eight-piece have built a decade-long career as one of the most dynamic modern soul collectives in the United States, and this release marks both a homecoming and a rebirth.

Nearly twenty years after their cult debut Thirteen became an underground classic of the indie-dance era, Teenager, the long-running collaboration between Nick Littlemore of PNAU and Empire of the Sun and New Zealand's Pip Brown, better known as Ladyhawke, return with their long-awaited second album Fourteen. The release arrives alongside the pulsing electro-acid groove of lead track Getting Tough.

Eora/Sydney indie-rock four-piece The Rions have officially dropped their long-awaited debut album Everything Every Single Day and they're hitting the road with a huge national tour this October.

Aotearoa's fiercest punk agitators Dick Move are back, unleashing their biting new single ‘Scared Old Men' as the next taste of their forthcoming album Dream, Believe, Achieve.