News: Infinity Song set for 2026 Australia and New Zealand tour
Infinity Song will return to Australia in January 2026 with shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, alongside a debut New Zealand performance in Auckland.
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News: Connan Mockasin announces Sydney Opera House Playhouse shows
Connan Mockasin will play an intimate headline show at the Sydney Opera House Playhouse on 16 October, his first Australian appearance since 2019.
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News: Evanescence announce three headline Australian shows for October–November 2025
Evanescence will return to Australia for three headline shows in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney this October and November, ahead of their stadium appearances with Metallica.
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News: Tom Odell’s Wonderful Life Tour set for Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in January 2026
Tom Odell will return to Australia in January 2026 for the Wonderful Life Tour, marking his first full run since 2014 and following his recent sold-out Opera House shows. The tour coincides with the release of his seventh album A Wonderful Life, a record that finds Odell balancing anxiety and fragile hope with unflinching honesty.
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Album Review: Big Thief’s Double Infinity Finds Beauty in the Collision of Opposites
On their sixth album, Big Thief distill contradiction into melody—songs that hold sweetness and shame, mortality and permanence, all at once. Double Infinity is a luminous meditation on duality that cements Adrianne Lenker as one of the most fearless songwriters working today.
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Live Review + Photo Galleries: Melbourne Ska Orchestra at Altar Bar, Hobart 05.09.2025
The Melbourne Ska Orchestra (MSO) brought their good-times vibes and warmth as they rode into town on a chilly Hobart evening, bringing their spaghetti-Western inspired, Ballad of Monte Loco tour…
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Album Review: CMAT’s Euro-Country Turns Heartbreak and Humour Into Pop Brilliance
On her third album, CMAT folds Irish politics, late-stage capitalism, and intimate confessions into a vivid pop-country palette. Euro-Country is at once biting and funny, sad and euphoric, proof of an artist who can turn a diss track about Jamie Oliver and a ballad about financial collapse into the same dazzling world.
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Live Gallery: Sabaton storm Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion with history in their veins 6.09.2025
At the Hordern Pavilion, Sabaton’s stagecraft feels less like a concert and more like a living archive. Every blast of pyro, every martial stomp of rhythm, refracts through their two-decade devotion to metal as historical testimony. Before them, Amaranthe fold pop and death metal into something combustible, proof that even genre orthodoxies can burn bright under the right hands. Together, the two bands turn a Sydney night into an intercontinental lesson in scale, spectacle, and sheer force.
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Live Gallery: Don Broco Keep Their Promise in a Sweaty Return to Sydney’s Manning Bar 5.09.2025
Don Broco turn Manning Bar into a furnace of energy, delivering on promises made to Australian fans and setting the stage for their next chapter, with RedHook laying the groundwork in a blistering support slot.
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News: Australia and New Zealand set to receive fresh psychedelic blast from Brian Jonestown Massacre in 2026
US cult psychedelic outfit, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, have announced an extensive Australia-wide tour set to hit our shores in March 2026, including a date in Auckland, New Zealand to…
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