With the playlist, Friday Finds: This Week’s Best New Music, The Music’s team gathers the best new songs you need to hear every Friday. Here are our picks released this week, August 21, 2026.

After enjoying breakout success with their self-produced 2022 debut, the Sydney psych quartet hit a wall while recording the follow-up. The solution? To strip everything away to the bare essentials.

Australian metal heavyweights Alpha Wolf cancel remaining 2026 shows following the departure of vocalist Lochie Keogh.

After a former Parkway Drive associate pleaded guilty to historical sexual abuse, a larger investigation has been launched into the area's toxic abuse culture of the early '00s.

Australia is debating who owns yesterday’s songs while ignoring who can afford to make tomorrow’s, writes UNIFIED Music Group Artist Manager Matt Walters.

Two original '60s members step down, bringing an end to one of rock music's longest-running touring careers.

Extreme rain hit the Mundi Mundi Bash, so artists are taking over Broken Hill with free pop-up gigs.

"We have always loved it down under, which is why it’s been The Dandy Warhols’ second home for almost 3 decades," said singer Courtney Taylor-Taylor.

"This has been the most gut-wrenching decision I have ever had to make," said Mundi Mundi Bash founder and organiser, Greg Donovan.

DICE hit the Brisbane leg of their tour, and their chart-topping album award is in sight the entire time, literally.

It was released 50 years ago today.

Having cut her teeth in bands, fostering multiple projects over the years, Catalina Richardson, the creator behind LINA, her latest project, has stepped into an expansive portrayal of human capabilities in her debut album, 'SUCKER'.