The PULSE 'zine made its powerful entrance last March, celebrating non-males in the Australian heavy music community. Spearheaded by Melbourne/Naarm-based creative Allison Watters, the DIY independent 'zine makes a comeback this year for PULSE: Issue 2, featuring another ten conversations with women currently dominating in their field.

TFW the Splendour group chat lights up…. AND we’re back. The annual Splendour in the Grass festival weekender is calling! Start planning your escape from the same-same of everyday life and get hyped for all the magic that awaits at Ngarindjin / North Byron Parklands from Friday 19 July to Sunday 21 July 2024, with onsite camping available from Wednesday 17 July.

BendiGLOW Youth Fest is an all-ages music and skate festival with a line up featuring Melbourne-based heavy outfit The Last Martyr, supported by the charismatic, post-hardcore Some Heard Trouble and is an event not to be missed!

We’re late to the party here BUT; It’s a good thing that festivals and live music are back on the menu this year because you’ll be able to bring 2022 to a close this December in sensational fashion; Good Things Festival, is officially returning to ignite mosh pits and more along the east coast.

Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga! Falls is beyond excited to announce that bona fide global superstars and Lil Nas X favourites, The OG Wiggles, are confirmed to perform at all three Falls events this summer!

Yep, Falls is ready to elevate your New Year with exciting new venues in VIC and WA and a fresher, deeper lineup and electronic experience than ever before!

Message your best festival mates and prepare to party your way into 2023, camping at Pennyroyal Plains VIC or North Byron Parklands NSW, or cityside at Fremantle Park WA when Falls returns with a lineup that includes some of the biggest acts on the planet right now alongside a host of festival favourites and exciting stars of the future across three main stages.

Beyond The Valley will return as a 4-day camping festival this New Year’s Eve, taking place from 28th-31st December 2022.

They've released a video off their social media pages today with Bicep’s “Glue” as the background song. Take from that what you will…

May 2022 will see Melbourne four piece Press Club jump back in the tour van to play shows in Melbourne, Geelong, Sydney, Canberra, Wollongong, Hobart and Brisbane. Having spent much of the last year or so focused heavily on writing for a new album the band have promised fans the first taste of new tracks as well as golden oldies from albums Late Teens and Wasted Energy.

Australia’s favourite music, food and art festival Spilt Milk today unveils the highly anticipated line-up with some of the biggest names set to take over the stage this summer.

One of Australia’s most in-demand and fastest-selling music, food and art festivals, Spilt Milk is making its return for 2022!

THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GO FULL TILT…

Just when you thought Full Tilt was done and dusted for 2022, the team at Destroy All Lines have brought their A game to deliver a sequel of truly epic proportions, with an army of international and local alternative acts ready to descend on the East Coast this July.

The countdown is officially on! In just two weeks’ time, Tarwin Meadows will be heaving with the colossal sounds of UNIFY 2022 and the festival just got bigger!

Full Tilt Festival is thrilled to announce in line with the recent government announcement, the festival will be operating at 100% capacity with no restrictions in 2022.

ChillCheney sets a dark and energetic mood with his new single ‘Laying Low, set to be released on the 20th of October. This single is a defining moment for the young artist, recounting his experiences and vivid thoughts in lockdown.

Overflowing with love and a belly full of fruit, Brunswick local ray of sunshine Fiz drops cozy new track Ripe. Full of warm tones and fruity riffs, the release plants her as one of the country's most intriguing new artists.

Ruby Gill shares a compelling new single ‘you should do this for a living’ - a song about what it takes to navigate male power, pressure and coercion in the music industry. The song was written, recorded and produced in Melbourne/Naarm and features a choir of prominent female-identifying voices, Angie McMahon, Maple Glider, Mimi Gilbert, Hannah Cameron and Hannah Blackburn.

Following on from her recently lauded performance at Splendour XR and a stunning rendition of Gang Of Youths’ ‘Deepest Sighs’ for Triple J’s Like A Version, Australia's most thrilling and revealing new pop artist Gretta Ray today releases her debut album ‘Begin To Look Around’ and shares the video for her new single‘Love Me Right’.

Angus & Julia Stone hadn’t planned to make another record — for a while, at least. But life had other machinations in mind, as it always has with Angus & Julia. The pair were famously brought back together by the legendary Rick Rubin and now again, were presented with an impossible-to-ignore opportunity, to reconsider themselves as artists in a new way — as composers, scoring for an award-winning video game.

Likening his music to being trapped in a multicoloured ball pit, DoloRRes blends hip-hop, experimental rock & electronica to create his unique world of whacked-out sound & mind-bending visuals. Today, premiering via Acclaim, DoloRRes shares the new video for his latest single D.T.R and announces his debut EP, It’s All Happening Somewhere Else dropped on Wednesday 11 August.

Aussie hiphop king Drapht shares his electrifying new track Problem Here, featuring fellow local Perth hypes Complete and Eli Greeneyes. Accompanied by a killer video, Problem Here is the second taste of the prolific artist’s brilliant new album Shadows and Shinings, an introspective and complex release demonstrative of Drapht’s impressive penchant for reinvention, out September 10. To celebrate the new album, Drapht will be hitting the road in September for a massive national tour.