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Armin van Buuren

Armin Van Buuren To Head Up Australia's Hypersonic Festival

Sydney Showgrounds on Saturday, November 29th, and the following day at Melbourne Showgrounds on Sunday, November 30th. First teased last week, Hypersonic was hyped as another “multi-genre” music festival ... swiftly becoming one of Australia’s most anticipated music festivals each year, with events in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney, and Melbourne. Across its multiple-year history, Stereosonic brought out acts

Features / Music

Tivoli In The Round

Top 10 Must-See Gigs At This Year’s Brisbane Festival

more for 2025. Here are a few of the gigs taking place at Brisbane Festival this year that The Music is most looking forward to. Phantastic Ferniture ... first made the trek to Australia in 2024 for exclusive shows in Sydney and Melbourne, meanwhile, Brisbane Festival marks their debut performance in the Queensland capital for a limited

SoSo

SoSo's Wild Discount Plan To Reach Number One On The ARIA Charts

Sydney-based “offensively average” pop-punk band SoSo are releasing their debut album in October, and they’re asking for help to top the ARIA Charts . Not just the Australian ... been “overlooked for support slots, ignored by radio,” and “shut out of every major festival.” They added, “No matter how hard we hustle, the industry pretends we don’t exist

Industry / News

Jaddan Comerford, ISHAN, and Sidhartha Todi

UNIFIED Music Group Team Up With 7Entertainment & Startist In New Joint Venture

UNIFIED continues its expansion into India. UNIFIED has already promoted ISHAN at The Hills Festival in Meghalaya, who later opened for Bryan Adams in Kolkata. In partnership with Mantra Roots ... March, the companies presented Jahnavi Harrison (with support from Keli Woods ) in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth

News / Festivals

Stereosonic Festival

New EDM Festival Heading To Australia

bright orange image is the reveal of two dates and venues: the festival will visit Sydney Showground on Saturday, 29 November, and Melbourne’s Showgrounds on Sunday, 30 November. “Introducing ... Australia, including Dreamstate in Melbourne and Sydney, Ascend Adelaide , Altitude: Elements of Unity , Hyperdome: Phoenix Rising , Transmission , Tempo , and other festival events. SYMBIOTIC Presents shared in the comments

Features / Interviews

Ninajirachi

Ninajirachi Explores The 'World And Lore Building' Behind Debut LP 'I Love My Computer'

Robinson , his trademark complextro style a pivotal influence, and traversed the country with Laneway Festival . Next, she'll embark on her sold-out Dark Crystal IV tour – first stop Naarm/Melbourne ... School for a joint Vivid Sydney program. As Wilson and her team mulled over the bill, she decided to stage an inclusive mini-festival – booking acts with whom she recognised

Features / Music

The Darkness

'We're Operating At A Higher Level Than Normal': The Darkness' Justin Hawkins Reflects On 'Dreams On Toast' And Their Love Of Australia

chance to do what we did in the UK, which is turning up at festivals and trying to blow people away," he remembers. "We'd already done all that work ... Hill, Newcastle, NSW Wednesday, February 25th – Waves, Wollongong, NSW Friday, February 27th – Enmore Theatre, Sydney, NSW Saturday, February 28th – Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide, SA Sunday, March 1st – Odeon, Hobart

The Strokes

Are The Strokes Planning An Australian Tour?

Splendour In The Grass – along with sideshows in Melbourne and Sydney – in 2022. Before then, they performed at the festival in 2016 and 2010, and embarked on headline dates

News / Festivals

Tool's Maynard James Keenan performing live

Tool & Weezer Lead Mammoth Good Things Festival 2025 Line-up

through classics from 2013’s The Other Side . Embedded Content Elsewhere, the festival has locked in Australian rock music icon James Reyne , plus additional locals CIVIC , Inertia , Yours Truly ... venue of Sydney Showground on Saturday, 6 December, and concludes at the Brisbane Showgrounds on Sunday, 7 December. Pre-sale tickets for the 2025 Good Things Festival will be available

Linkin Park

How To Score Tickets To Linkin Park's 2026 Australian Tour

decade. Returning Down Under for the first time since performing at the 2013 Soundwave Festival and a number of sideshows, the One Step Closer rockers will perform in arenas ... March, before heading to Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Sunday, 8 March, and Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on Saturday, 14 March. With so much space between dates

The Lumineers

'Ho Hey': The Lumineers Plot 2026 Australian Tour

Music Bowl on Friday, 9 January, the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Tuesday, 13 January, Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on Friday, 16 January, the Adelaide Entertainment Centre Arena on Sunday ... album, AUTOMATIC , released in February 2025. Reviewing their performance at the 2022 Harvest Rock festival in Adelaide, The Music ’s Melissa Griffin stated that The Lumineers “led a joyful crowd

Linkin Park

Linkin Park Announce 2026 Australian Tour

Australia in March 2026. Their first stops Down Under since playing at Soundwave Festival in 2013 – and a string of headline dates – Linkin Park will arrive in Australia with ... March, before heading to Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Sunday, 8 March, and Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on Saturday, 14 March. With so much space between dates

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