Purple Sneakers

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.

New credits have been added to Fawaz's airplay-dominating track, alerting listeners to the presence of AI-generated vocals and drums.

Spilt Milk sold out in advance last year, hosting acts such as Kendrick Lamar, Doechii, Dominic Fike, and more.

The festival will feature names such as Fireboy DML, Timbaland, Stefflon Don, Adrian Dzvuke, and many more.

Now entering its twelfth year, the upcoming Lost Paradise follows an incredible edition that sold out “in record time”.

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.

Another 18 acts have been added to this year's Queenscliff Music Festival, joining Peter Garrett & The Alter Egos, Kate Miller-Heidke, Baker Boy and more.

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.

triple j’s One Night Stand will take over the Griffith Showground on Wiradjuri Country on Saturday, 5 September.  

The book revisits “twenty glorious years” in Sydney that included “an explosion of the arts, pushing the envelope of staid and conventional culture.”