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Leaps And Bounds Music Festival will return to a full ten-day format in July 2026, with venues across Yarra hosting free and low-cost live music, cultural events and community celebrations.

Byron Bay replaces Bluesfest with a multi-venue Easter music takeover featuring The Wailers The Living End and Taj Farrant across the Shire.

Shinedown have pulled out of the Rock The Country Festival, saying their mission is to unite audiences through music and avoid further division.

Freaks of Nature has announced the first wave of artists for Freakyard 2026, returning to Riyadh with a multi stage immersive festival experience featuring global electronic music stars.

Laneway Festival has added five emerging triple j Unearthed artists to its 2026 national lineup, with performances scheduled across every city in February.

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.

Dark Mofo will return to Hobart from 11–22 June 2026, bringing back its iconic midwinter rituals, firelight feasts and world-class music under the Tasmanian night sky.

Both New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti cannot see major concert events returning in 2020.

The Australian Festival Industry Conference (AFIC) is back in 2020 for three days of festival management workshops.

Sugar Mountain has revealed the line-up for the 2015 with NAS leading the announcement performing his 1994 debut ‘Illmatic’ in full.

Calvin Harris, Skrillex, Tiësto, Alesso to head Stereosonic 2014.

The Screaming Jets will headline Australia’s newest music festival, Groundswell, at Lake Tyers Beach in Victoria in January.

The Presets are the last minute addition to Splendour In The Grass, replacing London Grammar who pulled out of the event overnight due to the illness of Hannah Reid.

Robert Plant and Kylie Minogue are just two of the performers for the iTunes Music Festival this year.

Dan Sultan and Husky are two of the latest additions to the Queenscliff Music Festival.

Two Door Cinema Club have become the second band in as many days to withdraw from Splendour In The Grass.

Green Day will prepare for their major headline sets at this summer’s Reading and Leeds Festivals by playing a very intimate warm-up show at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on August 21st.

The Living End and John Butler Trio will perform at the Queenscliff Music Festival outside Melbourne in November.

Never before have so many major music names been in Australia at one time. Without question, Australia is the music centre of the universe right now and that is with thanks to three people … Peter Noble, Michael Chugg and Rob Potts.

The Rolling Stones will perform at the Glastonbury Music Festival this year.

Roger Daltrey has pulled out of his upcoming Australia tour and Bluesfest appearance citing “unforeseen scheduling conflicts” as the reason.

Yes have added a Perth date to their run of Bluesfest sideshows in April.

Roger Daltrey has added a Perth date for his upcoming Australian tour.

Chris Cornell says that comments he made during the Soundgarden set at the Big Day Out in the Gold Coast on Sunday were directed at the BDO organisers, not Kanye West.