The new era of alternative rock and punk arrives in Australia this March with NEW BLOOM FEST, a brand-new touring festival set to launch next month. Featuring some of the freshest up-and-coming artists in the scene, today NEW BLOOM FEST is also announcing an expansion beyond the festival events, with headline shows locked and loaded from some of the international NEW BLOOM FEST artists throughout March.

In line with health announcements, The City of Maribyrnong has made the decision to reschedule the upcoming edition of West Set to August 2021.

In an Australian first, an entire symphony orchestra will head to a remote Indigenous community to collaborate with remote First Nations artists singing traditional songs at the famous Barunga Festival this June.

Inverse, Music Victoria, the Victorian Music Development Office and Moon Mother Productions are thrilled to present the winners of their recently announced Music VR Backers Fund – a first-of-its-kind grant offered to assist Victorian artists in connecting with fans in new and exciting ways, utilising live virtual reality technologies.

Seventeen more sleeps and counting until we land at Dalton Park in Wollongong for Yours & Owls! It's time to get your crew together and start planning; set times are in!

Attention kids! We haven’t forgotten you! The Yours and Owls All Ages show has moved to May 8, same COVID Safe venue and same COVID Safe time.

One of Australia’s most popular and versatile entertainers, ARIA Award-winning, multiplatinum-selling recording artist David Campbell brings his Back In Swing big band show to the Sunset Piazza, completing the 2021 season program.

The award-winning mental health music charity Listen Up Music is announcing Torch Fest Brisbane, a full-day festival on the 10th of April at the West Room featuring 12 radiant Queensland artists and bands.

Strawberry Fields 2021 has official SOLD OUT! General public tickets went on sale this morning and sold out within one hour.

The time has finally come. Welcome, Meadow 2021.

The Australian Alternative music scene is set to fire back up in a massive way and Brisbane fans will get to experience it first as we go Full Tilt in June 2021.

We’ve already heard the sort of vibes Sydney songwriter Oly Sherman has been working with for 2020 on his January release, ‘Madness’, and now we’re getting more insights into this talented musician’s building stock of work. Releasing his new single ‘Homeboy’ this month, Sherman swathes polished songwriting in slick production and indie influences. Another strong step forward for Sherman, ‘Homeboy’ is one of his most intimate offerings yet.

TEISCHA today reveals a standalone live visual for standout track ‘silence’, taken from her widely praised mixtape and visualiser momentary. The piece finds Teischa in front of a bare wall, black t-shirt, microphone in hand, lit only by a wall projector displaying reels from momentary and the lyrics of ‘silence’ laid bare on her face and body. 

Tasmanian indie folk pop duo Runaway Belles have today released their debut single The Weekend, a story of a love that is never set to last. Featuring the exquisite voices of Tash Parker and Emma Anglesey, the duo are also housemates which is convenient in these isolation times.  To celebrate their first release, the girls have announced a Facebook livestream set for 8pm every Monday in May.

A pandemic can close our venues, ban our gigs and end our gatherings, but You Can’t Stop The Music!  Melbourne’s beloved radio station PBS 106.7FM is dusting off the dancing shoes for its annual Radio Festival from Monday 18 May to Sunday 31 May. This year’s festival refuses to let a little isolation get in the way of the biggest on air fundraiser party the FM bandwidth can handle. PBS is inviting listeners to put their money where their ears are and join or renew this May to keep the tunes rolling for another nonstop boogie around the sun. 

Fearless Records will be hosting a one-time only, global event featuring most Fearless artists, and even a new artist signing announcement!

Melbourne’s Didirri today announces the rescheduling of his upcoming Australian headline tour, which was due to take place across the country throughout April. The new tour dates will now take place in the same venues throughout November.

Due to the recent developments in the Covid-19 outbreak, the organisers of Meadow have announced the cancellation of Meadow 2020 in order to comply with the orders imposed by the State Government under the State Of Emergency declaration commencing Monday 16 March.

Groundbreaking Australian musician Tim Minchin has revealed his new single “Leaving LA”, to be released via BMG. “Leaving LA” is a predictably sardonic and poignant meditation on the conundrum that is La-la Land. A combination of the pop and orchestral stylings that Minchin is renowned for, the release comes at the head of his mammoth sold out national tour.

It is with intense disappointment that we announce that My Chemical Romance will not be coming to Australia to play Download. As we are unable to deliver a complete line-up to meet the standard that Download fans both expect and deserve, we have very reluctantly made the decision to cancel Download Australia 2020.