Music

Sydney Fringe Festival: bigger and bolder than ever in 2025
This year's Sydney Fringe Festival is embracing more local and international talent than ever and a decentralised model of place.

Support Act
Crisis Relief Grants
Crisis Relief Grants and support are available to musicians, managers, crew and music workers across all genres experiencing financial hardship as the…

Kimberly Akimbo review: a Broadway musical hit now making its Australian premiere
The Australian premiere of a Tony Award-winning musical, first staged in Adelaide and now in Melbourne.

Shock to bewilderment as ANU strips cultural legacies and denies creative futures
Whose good idea was it to take an axe to ANUs Schools of Art and Design, Music and Museum Studies?

Zilla & Brook
The Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues
The Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues is back from October 31st to November 3rd.

Tomorrowland Australia: electronic music festival coming to Melbourne in 2026
What does Tomorrowland Australia mean for Australian artists, audiences and the live music economy?

Triple J Hottest 100 poll reveals Australia is growing up
From INXS to The Veronicas, Triple J’s all-time Hottest 100 celebrates the changing sound and audience of Australian music

Luminescence Chamber Singers
Garden of Earthly Delights
Luminescence Chamber Singers probe the pleasure and peril of excess in Garden of Earthly Delights. Seductive, sublime, and unsettling in…

Would INXS make it today? Rethinking the rise of Aussie icons
As INXS tops Triple J’s all-time Aussie songs list, it’s worth asking: could a band like theirs still break through…

The Audition review: a new musical gets a promising start in Tasmania
There were only four performances of The Audition in Hobart, but this musical was a hit.