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With our weekly updated 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, July 17, 2026.

The Adelaide quartet’s self-produced debut album delivers enough catchy, contrast-driven indie rock to land them a US record deal and an equally-impressive world tour.

Australia’s prog metal guitar prodigy, Plini, discusses new album 'An Unnameable Desire', his upcoming headline tour, and the potential of creating pop songs and working with vocalists.

Hip-hop queens Salt-N-Pepa are joining R&B headliners Boyz II Men and Australian first-timers Bell Biv DeVoe on a supernova triple t(h)reat Australian tour. And, almost 30 years after their last album, they're tantalising day-one fans with a late-career studio comeback.

As Australian radio is largely dominated by a track alleged to be AI-generated, the bigger problem is that the general public doesn't appear to actually care.

Guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen discusses the band's latest "palate cleanser" of a single as they prepare for a December run of dates.

When he's not touring the globe as Queen's frontman or starring in Broadway musicals, Adam Lambert is an exceptional artist in his own right. His sixth studio album, 'ADAM', shows he really can do it all.

With our weekly updated 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, July 10, 2026.

Andrew Farriss on finding the confidence to take the stage as a front guy post-INXS, the draw of country music and his searching new solo record, 'The Prospector.'

Ahead of Lorna Shore's massive 2026 Australian tour, Will Ramos remembers meeting his idols, watching his bandmate get burnt by the Australian sun, and more with The Music.

The Parcels member talks about the Christmas Blues, and the fear and vulnerability in deciding to release his own solo music.