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Metallica

Metallica Kick Off 2025 Tour - What To Expect On Their Australian Dates

tour dates Down Under since they headlined Soundwave Festival in 2013. The band will perform in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, and Auckland with special guests Suicidal Tendencies and Evanescence

Kobie Dee

Kobie Dee Announced As Headliner For Final Ngana Birrung Festival

Ngana Birrung Festival will make its fourth and final return to Western Sydney this coming May for a vital celebration of rising First Nations stars in Australia. Hosted ... Mauboy, Nooky and Barkaa , and playing standout sets at festivals in Germany and London, and at Yabun and the Sydney Opera House locally. Bringing it all back home, the Bidjigal

Industry / News

Lost Paradise 2023

Five NSW Music Festivals To Be Saved By $2 Million Government Funding

major festivals. The investment is only the first round of the Contemporary Music Festival Viability Fund to be shared since its establishment in September 2024. A combined total ... Wollongong and Listen Out and Field Day in Sydney. The emergency fund aims to combat the cancellation of beloved festivals like Splendour In The Grass, Falls Festival, Spilt Milk

Dom Dolla & Kid Cudi

Dom Dolla Teams Up With Kid Cudi On 'Forever'

from Madison Square Garden below. Dom has secured a busy year of major international festival performances, including at Bonnaroo , Lollapalooza , Hard Summer , Creamfields , Kapa Futur , and Dour . He’ll also ... Australia of all time. Reviewing the Aussie producer’s show at The Domain in Sydney, The Music ’s Jake Fitzpatrick wrote that Dom Dolla have the audience exactly what they

Knotfest Brisbane

'Hellbound' Metal Cruise Heading To Australia In 2026

inaugural metal music cruise is called Hellbound and will sail from Darling Harbour, Sydney, from Thursday, 22 October, to Sunday, 25 October, in 2026. The line ... register for the Destroy All Lines pre-sale here . While Destroy All Lines promotes festivals such as Good Things and Knotfest , as well as all of the metal and alternative

Lady Gaga

Final Date Added To Lady Gaga's 2025 Australian Tour

Saturday, 13 December, at Sydney’s Accor Stadium. Pre-sale tickets to the second Sydney show (13 December) will be available next week. Mastercard cardholders and Vodafone mobile customers ... Gaga is one of three headliners at this year’s Coachella Music and Arts Festival. She put on a spectacle last Friday (11 April), and will return to the desert

1tbsp

1tbsp Teases Upcoming EP With New Single ‘Rush (Missing Out On Me)’

familiar with the work of ex-Brisbane, now Sydney-based songwriter and producer 1tbsp, you’d already know everything he released is a destined dancefloor filler. His latest single ... following month. During his visit, 1tbsp will also play Electric Forest and Shambhala festivals in Michigan and British Columbia. All tickets to his upcoming shows can be purchased here . While

Features / Music

The Plot In You

Walmart Parking Lots & Sold-Out Gigs: The Plot In You's Most Memorable Shows

shores in January 2026, hitting venues in Fremantle, Adelaide, Chelsea Heights, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. Since their formation 15 years ago, The Plot In You have gathered critical acclaim ... sold-out headline run in 2022 before wowing crowds at the 2023 Good Things Festival , The Music previously summed up the band’s previous visits like so: “...if you missed

Bodyjar & Press Club

Bodyjar & Press Club Headline Canberra’s Dansonfest 2025

Dansonfest 2025 are calling on Naarm heavyhitters Bodyjar and Press Club to headline the festivities. Bodyjar are returning to our country’s capital for the first time since 2019, feeding ... Elsewhere on the lineup you will find Wollongong’s Steel City All-Stars , Western Sydney’s Amends , Newcastle’s Local Resident Failure , Boudicca , Jamie Hay & Liam White , and Sydney

News / Festivals

Billie Joe Armstrong performing with The Go Go's at Coachella

The Five Biggest Coachella 2025 Moments (So Far)

festival. Embedded Content Embedded Content Embedded Content SPEED bring hardcore to the stage Yes, SPEED are Australian, but they needed their own shoutout for bringing Sydney hardcore to the world ... band brought the riffs and a flute solo to one of the biggest festivals in the world. Embedded Content Bernie Sanders introduces Clairo & makes hard-hitting speech For those

News / Festivals

Simple Plan at Good Things Brisbane

Good Things Festival Confirms 2025 Event Will Go Ahead, Reveals Dates

organisers confirmed that this year’s festival would go ahead and revealed the dates. As always, the Melbourne date is on a Friday, Sydney on a Saturday, and Brisbane ... leave nice and early if you need: Good Things Festival – 2025 Dates Friday, 5 December – Melbourne Saturday, 6 December – Sydney Sunday, 7 December – Brisbane Unfortunately for hard rock and heavy

Odd Mob

Odd Mob Announces Australian National Tour

announced his Australian headline tour, with the four-date run kicking off at Sydney's Metro Theatre, 6 September, then making stops in Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne. Harry Hope ... This Australian tour comes off the back of a stacked international run, including Major festivals like Tomorrowland , EDC Las Vegas , Parookaville, and a sold-out headline

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