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Melbourne is about to have a new music venue. Brunswick Ballroom, inspired by the Continental Café in Prahran in the 90s, will kick off with its first gig on 25 February.

‘Come From Away’ is one of the most powerful theatre shows of the 21st century. Now, as Australia returns to a Covid norm after 2020, the impact of this show has increased substantially.

The Royal Melbourne Hospital Scrub Choir is going viral again. This time it is with the Christmas song ‘We Wish You’.

Leo Sayer has poked his head in front of a camera to recite a poem to honour the roadies, the backbone of the live music industry.

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

Courtney Barnett will perform from the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne for a global event that will stream live to cinemas all over the world on 17 December.

Hillsong Church now owns Melbourne’s icon Festival Hall, the venue where Ian Dury sang ‘Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll’, Ozzy Osbourne sang ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ and the Sex Pistols played. So did those evil Beatles who had that sinister band member Lennon who once said they were “bigger than Jesus”. Hallelejah!

Melbourne musician/songwriter Sam See has slammed the maskless morons who protested for the ‘freedom’ has FREEDUMB.

Something for Kate will released ‘The Modern Medieval’, their first album in eight years in November.

The Casanovas are often aligned with AC/DC as a pub rock band but Damo Campbell and Tommy Boyce think otherwise.

Leo Sayer has written one of his most poignant songs ever with a message for Melbourne ‘My City In Lockdown’.

Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission has recorded a new song called ‘Mint Condition’, inspired by a Short Form drama series of the same name.

When the proposed Victorian Lockdown Laws were initially proposed it was the live music sector that was hit first and hit the hardest.

Robbie Williams World Tour concert for the Grand Prix in Melbourne has been cancelled.

Miley Cyrus has pulled out of her performance for the Melbourne Grand Prix this week because of Caronavirus.

TISM – arguably Australia’s most iconic slice of the alternative underground – are on Spotify and Australians aged 35 to 45 are rejoicing!

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will dedicate the first of three free concerts to the Red Cross, they announced today.

Melbourne Ska Orchestra will be the party band for the end of year performance at Memo Music Hall in St Kilda.

Former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher was mid-way through his former Oasis hit Supersonic last night when the power was cut.

American neo-folk artist Ani DiFranco will return to Australia for the first time in a decade with a quick run of shows across the country.

Thembi Soddell, Elision, Emily Bennet and Cat Hope in her duo Super Aluminium with Lisa MacKinney are just some of the Aussie acts set to perform at Copy That, Copy Cat for the Jolt Sonic Festival 2019 in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has confirmed that there will be a State Funeral for Melbourne icon Sisto Malaspina who was murdered by terrorist Hassan Kalif Shire Ali on Friday afternoon.

Melbourne icon Sisto Malaspina deserves a State funeral following his execution at the hands of a terrorist in Bourke Street on Friday afternoon.

So Frenchy So Chic, the annual day of French music, food and wine, will return to Sydney and Melbourne in January.

Joe Camilleri has produced an absolutely charming video for the new Black Sorrows song ‘Fix My Bail’.

The Living End returned to their hometown Melbourne for a very special performance, to play the After Party show for the AFL Grand Final.

Guns N Roses have used a billboard in Melbourne to announce their Australian tour for 2017.

Violinist Patrick Roberts has finished recording his new song ‘Legacy’ and is preparing to debut the song live in his hometown Melbourne at the Forum in July.