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The Melbourne International Jazz Festival has added six more events including multi-Grammy Award winner Samara Joy making her first Australian appearance.

The Crowded House Red Hot Summer tour has gotten even hotter with two more dates added for Bribie Island, Queensland and Mornington, Victoria.

The Hunter Valley in New South Wales coming up to the 11th anniversary of Dashville Skyline.

The Teskey Brothers will headline the 2026 edition of Ocean Sounds for Victoria’s Philip Island in January.

Crowded House will perform more live shows for 2025 for Red Hot Summer, as well as Mannum’s Sounds by the River and Mackay’s Legends on the Lawn.

OneRepublic will tour Australia for a fifth time and this time headline outdoor show on the Lookout Festival.

Mariah Carey will return to Australia to headline an all-star line-up for Fridayz.

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.

The Wiggles are heading to Deniliquin to perform at the 2025 Deni Ute Muster.

ZZ Top will return to Australia this weekend for their first Aussie shows in 12 years.

Face To Face Touring had its biggest weekend ever delivering presenting 19 Aussie acts to tens of thousands punters at four events in two states.

ZZ Top drummer and co-founder Frank Beard has stepped aside from the band temporarily due to unspecified health issues.

Blondie and The Clash never performed together on the same bill. While both bands were influential at the same time in the late 70s, there is no record of Blondie (from New York) or (from London) playing or recording together.

One classic rock Australian album turning 20 this year is the debut album for Wolfmother ‘Wolfmother’. The album was a major international success reaching no 3 in Australia, no 22 in the USA and 25 in the UK. Despite its international success Andrew Stockdale says he currently has no plans to mark the occasion of the 20th.

Australia’s Groovin The Moo will not return in 2025 after also being cancelled in 2024.

The full list of Australian sideshows for Knotfest is here.

The Governors Ball is on for 2025 with the New York City event bringing in Tyler The Creator to headline night one, Olivia Rodrigo on night two and Hozier for the third and final night.

Melbourne band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will host a three day residency at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in the USA this year with three different sets over three days.

The St Kilda Festival has revealed Peter Garrett & The Alter Egos, Cub Sport and Jem Cassar-Daley will perform at the 2025 event. The full line-up will be revealed on 18 January 2025.

Bluesfest has added more artists to the 2025 line-up Missy Higgins and George Thorogood joining the line-up.

ZZ Top and George Thorogood & The Destroyers will return to Australia in 2025 for Red Hot Summer.

The Cruel Sea, Peter Garrett & The Alter Egos, Spiderbait, DMA’s, Baby Animals and Boy & Bear make up just some of the line-up for the 2025 Twilight At Taronga series.

Artists from the Good Things music festival have a slew of sideshows across the nation in the first two weeks of December.

The ‘Gong’s Yours and Owls Festival line-up for 2025 has been revealed with The Kooks, Goo Goo Dolls and Bodyjar in amongst a line-up including Allday, the Dreggs and Windang’s own Hockey Dad.

Icehouse will headline Red Hot Summer 2025 on a bill with an all Australian line-up of Noiseworks, Wolfmother, Eskimo Joe, Baby Animals, Killing Heidi and Bachelor Girl.

Pete Murray and Eskimo Joe will go off short in Western Australia in January for SummerSalt.

Bluesfest has added another 18 acts including Kasey Chambers, Xavier Rudd, The Cat Empire and Hilltop Hoods.

The 2024 One Electric Day line-up has just been announced with Noiseworks headlining the annual event at Melbourne’s Werribee Park.

Wildlands is back for the 2024/2025 New Years week with one day festivals planned for Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.

The main feedback since the Face To Face Touring announcement of the Victorian show for Tina Arena and Richard Marx ‘Don’t Ask …Again Tour 2024’ was “what a great line-up”. Now the tour is going national.