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Live Gallery: Kodaline bring their final Australian tour to Sydney’s Enmore Theatre 03.09.2026

Kodaline are back in Sydney tonight, but this time everyone in the room knows there will not be another tour waiting somewhere down the road. After more than a decade…

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News: Bruno Mars adds new Australian and New Zealand stadium shows due to demand

Bruno Mars has added more stadium shows to the Australian and New Zealand leg of ‘The Romantic Tour’, with Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland all picking up extra dates following…

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Track: Logic1000 teams up with Christine and the Queens for ‘The Only One’

Logic1000 has released ‘The Only One’, a new collaboration with Christine and the Queens and the latest track to emerge from her forthcoming second album ‘Confirmation!’. The single comes with…

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Track: Spanish Love Songs announce ‘FUTURE NAUSEA’ and release ‘Good American’

Spanish Love Songs are looking firmly ahead on their fifth album ‘FUTURE NAUSEA’, although they are not particularly thrilled by what they see. The Los Angeles band will release the…

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News: Megan Moroney announces Australian arena tour for May 2027

Megan Moroney is heading back to Australia in May 2027, returning less than two years after her first visit with a considerably bigger run of headline shows. The Nashville singer-songwriter…

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Premiere: The Hunter Express slink into view on atmospheric new single ‘Easier’.

There’s a particular kind of songwriting that only arrives when you stop trying to write it. That’s the space The Hunter Express found themselves in with ‘Easier’, the Melbourne outfit’s…

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Track: unpeople reveal anthemic new single ‘blueprints’ ahead of debut album

unpeople are continuing the build towards their debut album with ‘blueprints’, a new single that finds the UK four-piece easing back slightly on the heaviness without sacrificing the size of…

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News: The Hoodoo Gurus ‘Rewind – All Killer, No Filler’ Tour adds Hobart date with Ratcat and The Stems also set to hit The Odeon Theatre

Due to high demand for the Rewind – All Killer, No Filler Tour, one of Australia’s most enduring and beloved musical acts, Hoodoo Gurus, have decided to “cross the pond”, confirming a new Hobart show…

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News: beabadoobee announces Australian arena tour for March 2027

beabadoobee is heading back to Australia in March 2027, and this time she is making the jump to arenas. The London-based artist will bring The Powerlines Tour to Brisbane, Melbourne…

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News: Geoff Tate to perform ‘Operation: Mindcrime’ and ‘Queen of the Reich’ in full in Australia

Geoff Tate is returning to Australia with a set that reaches from the earliest days of Queensrÿche through to the album that became the band’s defining conceptual work. Presented by…

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