Generational pop icon Robyn announces a 2026 arena tour. The Sexistential Tour – which takes place in Europe, North America, and Australia across 20 dates – is Robyn’s first major tour since 2019 and will feature her biggest ever headline shows, including London’s 20,000 capacity O2 Arena and three consecutive hometown nights at Stockholm’s Avicii Arena. Tickets on sale now at robyn.com/tour. Robyn’s upcoming global tour will feature an exciting...
Sleaford Mods announce additional headline shows in Hobart and Perth, part of their upcoming Australian and New Zealand 2026 tour. Tickets on sale from 1pm local time here. This week Sleaford Mods teamed up with Aldous Harding for their new single, ‘Elitest G.O.A.T’, which was released on Tuesday, and taken from the band’s new album, The Demise Of Planet X, out today. Pulsing with chiming synths and propulsive beats, ‘Elitest G.O.A.T’ is a...
After selling out her first Melbourne date, Naarm-based artist Stella Donnelly has announced a second show at the Corner Hotel on Sunday 1 March 2026. The newly added date comes ahead of Donnelly’s Love and Fortune Tour, which launches in Australia this February before travelling through the UK, Europe and Japan. Please find full tour details and ticket links below. Donnelly also shares the music video for opening single ‘Standing Ovation’, which...
Fresh off the release of their critically acclaimed 2025 album More, Pulp are set to make their long-awaited return to Australian and New Zealand stages — marking their first visit in 13 years. The UK band have announced headline dates across Auckland, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, alongside an appearance at Adelaide Festival. Tickets and further tour details below. More is Pulp’s first album since 2001’s We Love Life and came...
Sleaford Mods have announced an Australian and New Zealand headline tour for April 2026. The band will kicks things off in Perth at the Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre Front Lawn, and continue through to Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Wellington and Auckland. Pre-sale starts on at 10am AEDT on Thursday 16th October and general sale will begin at 10am AEDT on Friday 17th October via handsometours.com. This will be Sleaford Mods...
Stella Donnelly announces international tour dates across Australia, United Kingdom and Europe in support of her forthcoming album Love and Fortune, due for release on Friday 7th November. A deeply personal and anchored body of work that traces the journey back to herself after a period of profound change. Recorded in Naarm/Melbourne, the album carries the grounding energy of place, offering a sonic landscape that feels both intimate and expansive....
The Smith Street Band return with ‘This Is It’ – the first single from their forthcoming seventh album. Dripping in the emotional honesty the band have come to be known for, the new track might just be their most vulnerable release to date. The new release comes with accompanying video clip, shot and edited by long time collaborator Nick Manuell, with Greg Rietwyk. ‘This Is It’ is a song about...
Sunbeam Sound Machine announces his very first headline tour in the US and Canada, he will be playing very special solo shows this April. Further tour details and ticket info below. Sunbeam Sound Machine, the project of multi-instrumentalist Nick Sowersby, has been shaping the modern psychedelic pop scene since 2013. Blending hypnagogic pop, indie garage rock, and neo psychedelia, Sowersby crafts immersive, dreamlike soundscapes that resonate with listeners on a...
Fontaines D.C. announce their ROMANCE Australian tour. They will play five headline shows and two festivals across the country in February and March 2025. They begin their Australian romance at Perth Festival on February 27th, before moving onto Brisbane where they will play at Riverstage on March 1st. The band will join the stacked lineup at Yours & Owls Festival in Wollongong on March 2nd before playing Sydney Opera House...
The Hard Quartet release their eponymous debut album and announce a run of Australian tour dates in early January 2025. Says the band, “Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney and Jim White formed The Hard Quartet in May 2023. They recorded a 15 song album in NYC and Malibu California without telling anyone except their families and friends – ideal times spent in idyllic locales. The Hard Quartet starts touring...
The National release a surprise second album of 2023, Laugh Track, out now! The album is a companion to and features material originally started in the same sessions as First Two Pages of Frankenstein. The National also confirmed Australian shows next spring with support from longtime friends Fleet Foxes. Full tour dates below. Laugh Track is the band’s most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+...
Melbourne-born duo Xylouris White tackle Australia with a debut appearance at the Queenscliff Music Festival and a run of east coast dates. The dynamic duo; lute player George Xylouris and drummer Jim White, will also include Meeniyan, Hepburn Springs, Hobart, Wollongong and Canberra alongside big city plays in Sydney and Melbourne. The tour comes off the back of 2023’s release The Forest in Me, an instrumental album drawn from multiple sessions spawned across two continents; Jim in New York City and George in Crete and pulled together by...
Following the recent upload of Ed Kuepper’s debut record to streaming services, it’s time to introduce The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper, the first live band experience of Ed Kuepper’s solo material since 2009. Today, Kuepper announces a national tour for this September in celebration of his lauded classic Honey Steel’s Gold being made available on streaming services from Friday, 9th June. Featuring Ed’s legendary sparring partner Mark Dawson on drums, Sunnyboys bassist Peter Oxley, plus celebrated pianist Alister Spence and brass maestro Eamon Dilworth, The Exploding Universe will tackle the best of Kuepper’s recent vinyl reissues Electrical...
Following the release of their acclaimed fifth album, Jen Cloher reveals the clip for the title track ‘I Am The River, The River Is Me’. Supports have also been announced today for the national album tour which kicks off in Perth on the 6th of May and concludes June 1st at the Sydney Opera House as part of the VIVID Live program. The title is taken from a Māori proverb with Jen sharing further insight saying “It holds especially deep significance for Iwi (tribes) along the Whanganui...
Dry Cleaning share ‘Gary Ashby’. The new single, from their second album Stumpwork (out 21 October), follows the travails of a beloved family tortoise lost in lockdown (“Have you seen Gary?”). Loaded with melodious hooks, the 2-minute jangle pop song is “a lament about a pet tortoise, escaped as a result of family chaos,” explains the band. “We wrote it in December 2020, one of the first new songs after the New Long Leg session.” To support the...
Following the release of last year’s album 3, Ngaiire returns with a new single ‘Fuchsia’. A continuation of the art project/experiment that Ngaiire has described as ‘a very expensive therapy session’. ‘Fuchsia’, with it’s subversive beats & Ngaiire’s signature vocals, is an exploration of all that is queer & taboo in post-colonial Papua New Guinea. Listen below! Ngaiire shares, “Fuchsia is about wanting autonomy on your choices, who you love, your body...
