Everything You Need To Know About The 2026 Star-Studded Red Hot Summer Tour

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Franz Ferdinand for triple j's 'Like A Version'
Franz Ferdinand Cover Amyl & The Sniffers For 'Like A Version'
Scottish rockers Franz Ferdinand recently brought hits and new songs to Australia, and while they were here, they spent some time in the triple j studio and performed an Aussie ... original song does, Kapranos said the band instead opted for a “really rough, raw” sound on the synthesiser to give the song a “sleazy vibe.” Kapranos admitted he would never
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Mumford & Sons
Mumford & Sons Add Extra City To 2026 Australian Tour
additional concert, Mumford & Sons have now locked in five arena dates across Australia and New Zealand. The tour begins at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Friday, 24 April ... just months after last year’s Rushmere . Presented by Secret Sounds and Live Nation MUMFORD & SONS PRIZEFIGHTER TOUR - AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND 2026 WITH SPECIAL GUESTS FOLK BITCH TRIO
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John "Jellybean" Benitez at Defected Croatia
John "Jellybean" Benitez On The Secrets To His Decades-Long Career: 'When I Play Music And People Are Dancing, I'm So In That Moment'
ended up never happening. “But I have a lot of Instagram followers from Australia 'cause, when I'm playing internationally, if it's Ibiza or Mykonos or somewhere people will ... promotional vinyl format for DJs (and invented by disco pioneer Tom Moulton ). "Those sounded so much better than the grooves on a seven-inch record," he says. As Benitez established
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Red Hot Summer Tour 2026
Everything You Need To Know About The 2026 Star-Studded Red Hot Summer Tour
beginnings as a three-act bill travelling across Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia for six shows in 2011, the Red Hot Summer Tour has become a cultural behemoth ... released her album The Second Act . A sequel album to her classic The Sound Of White , upon its release, it topped the ARIA Australian Albums Chart and the overall albums
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Obscura
Obscura To Debut Travelling Festival SHRED FEST In Australia In 2026
Bookings and the SHRED FEST websites. “We’re thrilled to bring Shred Fest to Australia in 2026 alongside the crushing talents of Fallujah, Anoxia, and Ashen,” Obscura commented ... venue to meet you, talk music, and celebrate the most extreme sounds around. Come early, stay late, and support every act. We can’t wait to see you all there
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Flight Of The Conchords
Flight Of The Conchords Confirm First Performance In Eight Years
Joke Fest , heading to Los Angeles this May, Variety and Consequence of Sound report. The pair last performed together on their 2018 tour, which ended with the HBO special Flight ... shows, which featured acoustic guitars and satire. In addition to a successful career in Australia and New Zealand, the pair frequently featured at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and hosted
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Courtney Barnett
Courtney Barnett Announces New Album 'Creature Of Habit'
emotionally resonant album was written in the wake of Barnett’s move from Australia to Los Angeles and the closure of her long-running record label, Milk! Records . Those changes ... track this song, and each time it either wasn’t finished or didn’t sound right, and each time we had to start again,” Barnett said. “I kept hearing this
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Rob Hirst
10 Magic Rob Hirst Musical Moments Outside Midnight Oil
commercially successful. And it shouldn’t be a surprise, with members of two of Australia’s biggest bands at the time creating this debut single that crashed into the ARIA ... Hirst’s collaboration with singer/songwriter Paul Greene created an amazing album which captured the sound of suburban summers. The album In The Stealth of Summer sold over 20,000 copies
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Forrester Savell
Behind The Desk With Forrester Savell: 26 Years Of Solitude, Sound And Survival
finishing touches on yet another – and likely genre-defining – album release.  The producer, sound engineer, master and, more often than lately, mixer is usually alone, and himself quiet ... prodigy kid tinkering with analogue recording gear. Growing up in Western Australia, music-making arrived late for him and imperfectly. He quit formal lessons early – a regret that lingers – then
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Kylie Minogue @ RAC Arena
Venues: Two Launches In Sydney, New Owners, Financial Dramas, Scalper Fines, Court Dramas & More
World Square on Saturday January 24. They're promising state of the art sound, immersive LED walls and the most moving lights in the Southern Hemisphere. Opulent rooms for groups ... night-life back to where it should be.” Lady Gaga Grossed $91.98M In Australia Lady Gaga might have profusely apologised to her Australian Little Monsters at each
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Split Enz
Split Enz Expand 2026 'Forever Enz' Australian Tour
more information. Formed by Tim Finn in New Zealand in 1972 before relocating to Australia in 1975, Split Enz are behind some of the most beloved hits ... tours and special events, including the 2009 Sound Relief concert, which, coincidentally, was the band’s last show in Australia. Presented by Live Nation by arrangement with WME SPLIT
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David Byrne
Live Review: David Byrne @ Brisbane Entertainment Centre
wave band Talking Heads, which led the charge of the new wave sound from 1975 and into the early ‘90s, before the band’s split.  In Byrne’s life ... dance. The Who Is The Sky tour touched down in Australia on January 17th, following an Auckland show across the Tasman, and a prior US tour.  Brisbane