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The return of Bluetile Lounge: 'We just wanted to be like the bands we loved'

Gallery: Pitch Music & Arts, March 6-10 2026

Golden Plains review – finding joy in the interstices

Australian music media is horny for Spotify

The Streets review - laddish melancholy rendered as musical theatre

Pulp review – Sheffield band's music feels more relevant than ever

'I fucken loved it' - all the highlights at Pulp's show in Melbourne

Getting close to POiSON GiRL FRiEND

The good, romantic and freaky at Spasta’s Valentine’s Day party

The soft glow of Maria Somerville's Luster

Cameron Winter review – woozy tension and unbelievable simplicity

Alex G review - two titanic hours of chaos

The Necks: mad harmony and tortuous invention

Local Woman: 'I'm creating my own pop paradigm'

Ecstatic Underworld headline set caps off inaugural New Year's at the Bowl festival

'We certainly weren't showing off': Essendon Airport on their minimalist masterpiece 'Sonic Investigations (Of the Trivial)'

Meredith Music Festival review – the full spectrum of emotions on a Supernatural weekend

Perfume Genius review – one of the world's best live performers

Jeremy Dower on his new album of minimal techno and faux jazz

Dr Sure's Unusual Practice reject fascism on new single 'No Pigs'

Maggie Tra explores displacement and belonging on Cyclo Theory

WITCH look back on their legacy: 'We didn't realise it was Zamrock'

Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory review – big and small, all at once

Kacey Musgraves at the Opera House – confetti cannons and an old-fashioned good time

Sharon Van Etten embraces change with The Attachment Theory

How birdwatching, The Terminator and Scotch eggs influenced screensaver’s Three Lens Approach

Does the Australian Music Prize want to decontextualise music?

Can't Stop It! is the definitive Australian post-punk compilation

Nina Protocol has a radical proposal for a fairer streaming economy

Harvest Rock musicians plant native seedlings in Pakapakanthi

Why does every man in a band in Australia look the same?

A gradual taking off, revealing – Cate Le Bon’s Michelangelo Dying

Here's the lineup for Golden Plains 2026

A short history of Finding Figaro

Finding Figaro's 9th birthday: sunshine and dance music

Jazz-trained electronic collagist L Lewis on his new record Intervals

Earthly and unearthly delights at second annual -TOPIA festival

CADENA is breaking the stereotype of a Latin American arts & culture festival

If Spotify really cares about Australian music then why the culture of fear?

Liz Pelly confirms what we already know: Spotify friggin’ stinks

Underworld, I Hate Models, Ben Böhmer announce Carriageworks shows

Hatchie on her new album 'Liquorice': 'I just care less about what others think'

The world is ready for the ingenuous, broken songs of Guy Blackman

DJ Python shows utter contempt for the continuous mix DJ format

Birdsnake take their downtempo electronica underwater

Laurel Halo & Leila Bordreuil evoke a landscape in permanent flux

Tyler, The Creator review – a blockbuster show couched in contradiction

Hannah McKittrick: 'In a city, we remember that we are beautiful together'

All the music festivals in Australia in 2025/26

Meredith Music Festival 2025 lineup: TV On the Radio, Pa Salieu + more

Emily Wurramara: 'It's so important to tell people how you feel'

Bumpy loses track of time on her new single 'Cosy Comfy'

The best new Mexican music: Mengers, Luisa Almaguer, Vanessa Zamora + more

Dick Diver review – the inner north equivalent of the Oasis reunion

RONA. returns with ‘Show Me’: ‘I wanted the next body of work to say something really important’

Sarah Blasko on her first two albums: 'I didn’t really know what I was doing'

Phoebe Rings' Ben Locke on band breakups and depression

CLAMM: 'I used to think that I didn’t care about politics'

Unsound Adelaide review – music to make you feel

Spasta review – nothing but good times at winter dance party

Through all the twists and bends: Killing Heidi on 25 years of Reflector

All I wanna do is have some fun - on pop music nostalgia and comfort listening

Is Dark Mofo the most exciting event on the cultural calendar?

Picture a conversation between one person: an interview with Alabaster DePlume

The best Australian music of May – Ela Stiles, Maggie Tra + more

Day Tripper review – RISING's dial-turning festival within a festival

DIIV review – heavy guitars and existential doom in Melbourne

Jessica Pratt review – aural bliss is over too soon in Melbourne

Mount Kimbie review – band brings Melbourne crowd to the brink of catharsis

Supergrass review – I Should Coco anniversary tour comes to Melbourne

Beth Gibbons review – emotional immediacy at Melbourne's Rising

Ichiko Aoba review – Japanese musician enchants in Melbourne

Trackwork founder UTILITY on Vv Pete and artistic risk-taking

ANOHNI’s Opera House show was a furious, heartbreaking night of mourning

The Lemonheads review – electric, sugar-rush niceness in Sydney

Western Sydney R&B artist SAHXL: “I’m not trying to sound like no one”

Sigur Rós & the MSO review – introspection and psychedelia at Melbourne's Hamer Hall

Npcede review – hard beats and disgraceful noise at Phoenix Central Park

Simon Barker and Hinano Fujisaki take inspiration from cicadas

Slowdive review – UK shoegazers are more than a nostalgia act

Teether & Kuya Neil's YEARN IV is the great Australian rap album

The best Australian music of April 2025 – sina, Sleep D + more

HTRK review – band creates mystic closeness at Melbourne's Forum

Five years of Music In Exile – Australia’s only not-for-profit record label and registered charity

The best Australian music of 2025 (so far)

Head Gap studios burned down but they're determined to rebuild

Toto, Christopher Cross review – yacht rock revival in Melbourne

Golden Plains review – there’s no place like the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre

MJ Lenderman review – North Carolina songwriter has it all

Magic Music review – jazz, Japanese and Persian music at Phoenix Central Park

Billie Eilish review – mania and messy fun on popstar’s first night in Melbourne

Kutcha Edwards review – songs of sorrow and survival