6+ hour, 23+ min ago  (326+ words) Australia's community radio stations are putting in serious work for local music, delivering an estimated $153 million in annual value to the industry while blasting more than double the local content of commercial networks. A groundbreaking new report, Community Radio and…...

7+ hour, 18+ min ago  (423+ words) The 2026 East Gippsland Winter Festival program has dropped and it's already screaming sell-out. Running from 19 June to 19 July, the month-long celebration has evolved from a post-bushfire community response into one of regional Australia's must-do cultural events, blending art, music, Indigenous…...

6+ hour, 7+ min ago  (318+ words) Richmond's Swan Street just levelled up its Italian credentials with the opening of Spaghetti Club on Thursday, 14 May. Born from a faded orange recipe book carried from Sicily to Melbourne, the new Southern Italian spot from MAMAS Dining Group is…...

5+ hour, 34+ min ago  (264+ words) US underground rap phenom Osama Son is finally touching down in Australia for his first-ever headline tour, bringing his chaotic, high-octane sound to venues across the east coast. Known for pushing the boundaries of rage-leaning trap with aggressive, distorted production…...

13+ hour, 1+ min ago  (214+ words) Returning to Brunswick Ballroom, Melbourne Soul Weekender has been a fixture on the Australian soul scene since 2009, and it's not hard to see why; this is one of the country's premier rare soul events, drawing DJs and punters from interstate…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago  (283+ words) After dominating charts, festivals and overseas stages throughout 2025 and early 2026, Spacey Jane are heading back down under for a victory lap that no fan will want to miss. The Western Australian band have announced the Heading Back Down Under Australian…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (349+ words) A3 Festival is heading back to Lardner Park in Victoria for its third edition, running 2730 November 2026. The electronic music festival, presented by Novel, has built a reputation for treating the entire weekend as one cohesive environment: sound, lighting, spatial design and…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (833+ words) Running across 26, 27 and 28 June at the Theatre Royal, the festival brings together a mix of Australian and international nonfiction films united by the theme Love " the antidote. We're talking real human stories, hard truths and the occasional DJ afterparty. The…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (421+ words) That grinning face at the end of the St Kilda foreshore has been welcoming people through its doors since 1912, so it makes a kind of perfect sense that one of the city's most beloved institutions is also becoming one of…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (411+ words) Last night, Merri-bek city councillors voted to defer the proposal that the Sydney Road Street Festival and Coburg Night Market be cut down from every year to every two years. As part of the city's Festival Programs Refresh, a proposal…...