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Tim Rogers, newly inducted into the Rock ‘N' Roll Hall of Fame, will return to the stage in March and April 2026 for a rare run of intimate solo dates. The tour, titled Le Charme Defensif, brings the celebrated Australian songwriter into close-quarters rooms across Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT, offering a direct connection to a career that has shaped Australian music for more than three decades.

AC/DC's earliest recordings with founding vocalist Dave Evans have remained one of Australian rock's great unknowns for more than half a century. While fans have long debated the extent of Evans' contribution before Bon Scott's arrival in late 1974, very little has ever been formally confirmed-until now.

Taylor Acorn will return to Australia in March 2026 with her first national headline tour, announcing four shows with American alt-pop-rock band Arrows In Action as special guests. The visit follows the October release of her second full-length album Poster Child, a record that has pushed the Nashville-based artist into the global pop-punk spotlight. Acorn's new tour will commence in Melbourne on 1 March, continue to Brisbane and Adelaide, and close in Sydney on 6 March.

It has now been 30 years since Bruce Springsteen released The Ghost Of Tom Joad, a stark and deeply human record that shifted him away from stadium anthems and back into the quiet, shadowy corners of American storytelling. Released on 21 November 1995, the album arrived at a moment when Springsteen had just reunited in the studio with The E Street Band for part of his Greatest Hits collection, yet he chose to follow that reunion not with bombast, but with one of the most intimate projects of his career.

Taj Farrant has shared the news that he will be opening for two ZZ Top shows in Arizona this November.

Australia’s loudest beer ambassadors, Cosmic Psychos, are cracking another tinny and throwing it straight in your face. The band has premiered their brand-new single I Like Beer, the first taste of their upcoming twelfth studio album I Really Like Beer, out November 7.

Duff McKagan will revisit his long history in rock this October with the release of Lighthouse: Live From London, a 19-track live album and full-length concert film recorded last year at London’s Islington Assembly Hall during his sold-out Lighthouse Tour ’24.