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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 7, 2026.

“I think this has been an exercise in audacity and asking for what you want," says Bachelor Girl's Tania Doko. "I have completely no shame.”

The Beautiful Monument discuss their first new album in seven years, the real life grief behind the album, and leaving Evanescence vocalist Amy Lee on read.

With the dates and venues confirmed, it seems the highly anticipated line-up announcement for Good Things 2026 is imminent. So, while we wait, The Music rounded up who could perform - and who's ruled out - at this year's festival.

Dance-pop DJ, producer and singer horsegiirL – "half-horse, half-human" – is promoting 'horse music'. After airing 2022's viral My Barn My Rules, the German icon is promising an Australian tour. And she has an Aussie connection, having befriended and remixed Ninajirachi.

The frontman of the iconic Aussie heavy-rockers is gearing up for huge performances at Tamworth and BONFEST, and is under no illusions about the band's live reputation.

James Reyne opens up about Australian Crawl's history and why the band’s 2026 reunion tour is a one-off tribute to their legacy.

The Sydney-born, Bomaderry-based singer-songwriter has been out of the game for 13 years – but she's back making heartfelt indie-folk on her own terms.

Ahead of Australian Crawl's forthcoming reunion, a new book on the iconic band details their highs, lows, and myriad missed opportunities.

Nicknamed DOBBY by a taekwondo champion gone too soon, Rhyan Clapham unleashes 'Marshmallow', his deeply personal “time travel story” in album form, which finds the 'drapper' redressing a regret from 2009 that still keeps him up at night.

DICE’s newest LP, 'I Thought The Altitude Would Make It Worth The View', is an expansive, atmospheric ode to the becoming associated with a band finding their own heights.