Music

We've cherry-picked all the unmissable Brisbane concerts coming up this year.

Kiwi pop icon Lorde has finally dropped dates for the Australian and New Zealand leg of her tour. 

Brisbane Festival is returning in September 2025 with another epic lineup of art installations, theatre, live music and everything in between.

Pull up your calendar and block out a weekend (or seven) and tune into some unmissable festivals coming to our corner of the world. 

From the institutions that we know and love to small neighbourhood venues, these are the best live music venues in Brisbane.

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Perth's iconic Ice Cream Factory Summer Festival is once again crossing the WA border to bring a massive night to our eastern shores. 

Save the date for a second round of new music festival, Day For It, which is heading back to Brisbane in October headlined by Flight Facilities. 

Amazing news: The Festival Of The Stone is back in Byron Bay on 5 June 2021 and heads up, tickets will sell out real quick.

Summer Sounds Festival is heading for Brisbane, headlined by Ball Park Music and Violent Soho.

Mark the first weekend of March 2021 in your calendar music lovers, because Wildlands music festival is officially coming back to Brisbane this summer 

Welcome to Culture Curve—your go-to guide to what’s on the rise and slide in culture in December 2020.

The Tivoli are making ‘dinner and a show’ cool again, with a series of seated events dubbed Open Season.

Taking over Ovolo The Valley for one epic weekend in October, reimagined music and lifestyle festival REMIX HOTEL will have you jiving to Groove Armada from the comfort of a luxe hotel room.

COVID-19 might have stolen music festivals from us this year, but praise the music gods because Splendour In The Grass has just dropped tickets for its 2021 reboot and the line-up is positively banging! 

The multi award-winning musical, created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, was initially due to head to our shores in March 2021. But with a little thing called COVID getting in the way, that's on the back burner for now. Fortunately, there's still a chance to see the ground-breaking hip hop musical, and you don’t even need to max out your credit card for it. Hype up, because Hamilton the movie is coming direct to your lounge.

But now, with bars and venues able to re-open in limited capacity, we’re excited by the prospect of finally seeing a live show again—and the first ones to hit the post-iso calendar has finally been announced.

We all knew it was coming and now it's official—Splendour In The Grass has been cancelled for 2020.

The Tivoli is giving you the chance to book an intimate takeover of their entire venue, for you and nine friends.

It’s time to warm up those vocal cords because Birds of Tokyo are coming to Brisbane next year, to perform with the legendary Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

Brisbane's libraries may be closed, but Brisbane City Council's online library catalogue is packed full of ebooks, audio-books, magazines and movies to help you stave off boredom while you’re cooped up at home. 

If you’ve always bemoaned the lack of true dive bars in Brisbane, Fortitude Valley's new Suzie Wong's might just be right up your alley.

Forget about cherry-picking your gigs this month, because Melbourne’s hottest new festival—Can’t Do Tomorrow—is serving up fiery musical acts left and right. Not only is Can’t Do Tomorrow going all out in the street art scene, but the music lineup is not something to be scoffed at. With the likes of Melbourne legends TEYMORI and MzRizk, Triple j favourite Cool Out Sun, Australian dance music powerhouse DJ JNETT and more, Can’t To Tomorrow is about to become your ultimate February gig haven. And because we’ve always got your back, if you use the promo code URBANCDT when you book, you get $10 off your ticket cost.

Is there a better way to spotlight local and regional talent than at an intimately local ceremony? If so, I’m listening.

Yes queens, it’s true. One of the Spice Girls is heading to Brisbane this year to headline The Wickham’s fabulous celebration of all things LGBTQ+, Big Gay Day. 

Fisher has teamed up with Sets on The Beach and Triple J and will be hitting the Riverstage in Brisbane this April.

The epic new musical festival announcements just keep coming, with the news of Greener Pastures hitting the Gold Coast in 2020. 

As always, the Falls Festival lineup is bang on point and the perfect way to wave in 2020.

​We’re long-time fans of Aussie hip hop legend Illy so we’ve been chomping at the bit to hear his new beats. Turns out, the wait was worth with it with singles Then What and newbie Lean On Me tearing up the charts and showing how much the artist has grown in his approach to music. While we’re hanging for his next album (hint: it’s looking like March) and tour, we’re stoked Illy’s hitting the festival circuit hard this summer, bringing his good vibes to regional Australia.

Brisbane’s newest music festival is here to change that, with limited doggo tickets available for those who want to treat their four-legged friend to some good tunes. 

Get ready to circle Friday 18 October in your diary, Brisbane, because hitting your social feeds this morning is news that American rapper TYGA is adding one more stop to his upcoming visit to Australian soil.

While they might not have ever hit the charts or had a music video go viral on YouTube, there’s plenty of movie tunes that you no doubt know every bar to, and it’s these musical numbers that are being brought to life in a live concert from the Queensland Symphony Orchestra this November.

For yet another year Brisbane’s own BIGSOUND festival is providing the absolute goods: phenomenal hip-hop, pop and electronic experiences from some of Australia's best and upcoming artists.

Travis Scott, the rapper on everyone’s playlists right now, has just confirmed he’s headed down under for one show only—and it’s going to be an absolute banger. 

The Tivoli, already one of Brisbane’s most stand-out performance venues, has just dropped the announcement that they’ll be unveiling a brand new space for gigs at in their Valley home.

If you’ve always thought that the one thing the streets of Brisbane could really use a lot more of was the opportunity for group sing-a-longs, then you’re in luck with the arty exhibition hitting town this month. 

The mammoth line-up has finally dropped so mark your calendars.

It’s the weekend of your beer (and cider)-drinking, food-scoffing, rocking-out dreams: two whole days devoted to celebrating our city’s love for a good brew and delicious food to match, against a backdrop of one of the best live music lineups around.

Forget nominating a DD to ship you and your crew down to Byron or up to Brisbane so you can catch international superstars perform, because the Gold Coast just scored the most epic music festival ever!

Hans Zimmer, musical genius and composer of almost every epic movie score in existence, will be touring the East Coast of Australia this spring.

If you haven’t heard of Brisbane-based rapper Jesswar, you will soon. Talent like this has a way of getting noticed.