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Alfred Hitchcock may not have imagined his taut 1935 espionage thriller The 39 Steps reborn as a Monty Python-flavoured stage spoof, but that is exactly what Patrick Barlow’s Olivier and Tony Award-winning adaptation delivers.

Wildlands Festival is officially returning for Summer 2026, with organisers confirming two massive editions in Brisbane on New Year’s Day and Perth on January 3rd.

Miranda Young’s Olivia: Grace and Gratitude has been updated for 2025. The new edition—published by Melbourne’s Wilkinson Publishing, adds fresh perspective to a story that continues to expand long after Olivia Newton-John’s passing. It also includes a brand-new chapter that reframes Olivia’s legacy through today’s lens, deepening the book’s tribute to one of the city’s most adored cultural figures.

"Tell us a story" ...That’s how Paul Kelly begins his forthcoming album SEVENTY, an invitation as old as childhood, whispered from the back seat of a family car or around a glowing campfire. Who better to ask than Australia's master storyteller himself? For more than 45 years, Paul Kelly has chronicled lives, characters and contradictions with matchless insight and heart.

The Strokes and The War On Drugs are coming To Australia but you’ll only see then see them in Adelaide.

The most memorable Ted Bullpitt Kingswood Country line is “You’re not taking the Kingswood”. “Pickle Me grandmother” comes in a close second place. Now there is new Kingswood country.

Melbourne’s newly formed art-rock collective Bleak Squad—comprised of four luminaries from the Australian music scene—have unveiled their third single and music video, “Blue Signs”, ahead of their debut album Strange Love.