Music

Prepare your earplugs (and your chakras) because Tool have just announced they’ll be playing two massive arena sideshows this summer, alongside their headline slot at Good Things Festival 2025

The creative couple and long-time collaborators have always been drawn to movies and music that hold a mirror up to who we are as Australians—the good, the bad, the fraught, the collective.

The Red Hot Summer Tour 2025 hasn’t even arrived yet, but Red Hot Summer 2026 is already preheating: Paul Kelly has been announced as the headliner of the touring music festival on a run of dates between January and March 2026, with an all-Aussie lineup, including Missy Higgins and The Cruel Sea.

Laneway Festival 2026 lineup brings Chappell Roan, Wolf Alice, PinkPantheress, BENEE & more to stages across Australia and New Zealand.

Dust off your disco pants, because British pop icon Sophie Ellis-Bextor has just announced that she’s bringing her brand of glossy disco pop back to the land Down Under this summer–but you better not steal the moves.

The Coachella line-up just dropped, and it's absolutely bonkers.

Psychedelic legends The Brian Jonestown Massacre are heading back to Australia in March 2026. Led by the mercurial Anton Newcombe, BJM have been bending minds since the early ‘90s with their hypnotic mix of garage rock, shoegaze and psychedelia. Now they're back.

CMC Rocks QLD’s back for 2026, and boy, are we geared up for this one.

What’s the go with Ticketmaster’s Face Value Exchange? And how can you use it to score tickets for a sold-out event, or offload tickets that you can no longer use? Here’s everything you need to know.

Olivia Dean is returning Down Under in October 2026 to kick off our spring season with her honey-sweet vocals and soul-filled lyrics. Touring her upcoming album The Art of Loving, the singer has just announced her Australia and New Zealand tour dates. Here are all the details.

The queen of pop-rap herself, Doja Cat, is coming to Singapore later this year with the Ma Vie World Tour.

The queen of pop-rap herself, Doja Cat, is coming to Australia and New Zealand later this year with the Ma Vie World Tour.

Your favourite summer festival is returning with big beats, big energy, and big changes. 

Off the back of their performance at HoMie's new Tiny Desk-inspired Store Sessions, Bad//Dreems chat to music writer Ben Madden about playing stripped-back music, writing a new record and finding rapport with a certain ilk of Aussie male.

This spring, Harvest Rock will make its much-anticipated return to Rymill & King Rodney Parks / Murlawirrapurka & Ityamai-Itpina, and the two-day music, food and wine festival has just unleashed a monster lineup that’ll have you booking annual leave before you get to the end of this article. 

Get ready to ditch your summer holiday plans, Tomorrowland spin-0ff CORE is officially coming to Melbourne. 

After selling out in record time, today, it was announced that the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper will be adding extra Sydney and Melbourne shows to his December tour. 

Bendigo has seriously diversified its portfolio since its opulent gold rush era. Now with an impressive food scene, buzzing creative community and regional charm aplenty, it's the weekend getwaway from the city you need to take. 

The celebration of art, light, music, and cutting-edge technology has returned for its fifth edition, with more kaleidoscopic installations, late-night gigs set to trippy projections, and a new program of dining events. 

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

The latest NSW Budget is big news for our festivals, films and creative industries.

Go ahead and bless your ears with the best Spotify playlists. 

If you're in the market for endurance EDM, upbeat pop bangers or heavy-based rap when you need to dig deep on your next run or gym session, we’ve got the playlist to keep you hitting goals.

BASSINTHECITY is a free pop-up event that'll get you warmed up for BASSINTHEGRASS, the Northern Territory's biggest music festival.

Whether you're into soul-shaking jazz, gritty punk, dreamy indie, or dancefloor-ready beats, these are the Vivid gigs that you won't want to miss. 

From curated lists of the very best cinematic music moments to coveted playlists emulating every major hip artist you need to know about right now, this line-up is a sure-fit for any kind of gathering.

FISHER's Out 2 Lunch Festival with Vodafone is back, and we have the insider scoop on how to grab up presale tickets. 

Your go-to guide on the best headphones and earbuds to buy in 2025.

Rev up your party engines people, Singapore GP has just announced the entertainment line-up that will add to the festive vibes at the Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix 2024.

Here's how you can snap up the country's hottest tickets.

 Deck the halls with sounds of Michael Bublé and the Queen of Christmas—Mariah Carey.

The hustle for tickets has been every bit chaotic while some economists have predicted a “TSwift Lift” to inflation as Swifties rush to book hotels and flights.

Combining the magic of a good summer music festival and an adventure-packed island getaway, Your Paradise offers a unique five-day festival experience like no other. 

Dipping into the decade of nostalgia, Yellowjackets on Paramount+ is back for another nail-biting season.

It's about damn time.

“Australian First Nations music is a powerful force that has existed for tens of thousands of years."

For artists like Isaac who are drawn to creating, music is undeniably in their blood, so we've teamed up with Australian Red Cross Lifeblood to dive a little deeper and uncover the passion for collaboration, live performance and a drive to contribute to the world around him that pump an unmistakable rhythm through his veins. 

We’ve linked up with Australian Red Cross Lifeblood to take you on a deep dive into Australian artists with music in their blood, and there’s no better place to start than with LK (her dad is Paul Kelly, and if that doesn’t suggest she was born with music flowing through her veins, we don’t know what does.)

Summer in Sydney is looking the goods. After a successful traffic-stopping inaugural festival in January of this year, it's just been announced ELEVATE Sydney will be returning next month to celebrate summer and the new year. 

A successful New Year’s Eve party—the kind people talk about for years to come—always has a few key ingredients; a rad crew of people, an endless grazing platter (preferably one that’s ‘gram-worthy), free-flowing booze and one seriously cracking playlist. While we can’t help with most of those things, we can ensure your party’s vibe remains high with our edit of the very best music out there.

Surprise, Christmas is not limited to just Mariah Carey.

Nestled in the beating heart of Surfers Paradise, we’ve found the perfect place for the ultimate fun day out. Think: epic games, live sport and a total foodie nirvana. So where can you find this awesome spot? Perched on the corner of Surfers Paradise Boulevard and Cavill Mall, boasting a 100-metre frontage opposite the world-famous Surfers Paradise Beach, is Paradise Centre. Home to over 90 stores, an alfresco dining precinct and a buzzing entertainment hub, gather your crew and make tracks here stat.

While we don’t like to play favourites here at Urban List, we can’t deny that when it ones to One Direction, Harry Styles has always been our number one! 

The award-winning musical has captivated Australian audiences but now the production will be drawing the curtains closed on Sunday, 27 February 2022—which means there's still plenty of time to nab your tickets. 

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In 2017, Kiama four-piece indie rock band Pacific Avenue was born, but their history goes way back.

We caught up with CIVIC and spoke to Jim over a couple of Sailor Jerry bevs about good vegan dinners, getting tattooed by Eddy Current Suppression Ring’s Danny Young, and how they’re planning to go ‘all in’ and finally celebrate their album release.

At just 23 years of age, Naarm singer and artist Kaiit (she/they/he) is one of the most exciting talents to grace the Australian music scene and bless our ears with her sweet and honeyed vocals. 

It’s the news that our locked down souls needed—the world’s biggest Hip Hop artist Snoop Dogg is returning to Australian shores for his most epic tour down under yet!

We couldn't be luckier here in Perth to be home to some incredible talent—especially when it comes to music. 

Isol-Aid Homegrown is a collaboration providing creative and financial support to emerging acts across Australia and New Zealand.

It’s her first tour since 2017.

We caught up with Amy Shark ahead of her national tour (which kicks off Friday 11 June in Newcastle) to talk about her new album, hitting the road again and the song that makes her feel the most vulnerable. 

Starting out as DJs and fast becoming favourites on the festival circuit, opening for the likes of Marshmello and RL Grime, sisters Briony and Savannah Osei of Kinder have been on a wild ride of creativity the past few years. 

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.

When it comes to homegrown talent, we are seriously blessed here in Australia—that busker down the street could be the next world-wide sensation (Tones And I we’re looking at you). Which is why we’re always pumped to chat to talented musicians at the beginning of their journey and they don’t get much more exciting than Budjerah.

We caught up with Tash Sultana to discuss being at peace both professionally and personally, creativity during lockdown and the hope of playing for full capacity crowds again.

We sit down with Australian singer-songwriter Thandi Phoenix to uncover what makes a luxe long lunch.

We sit down with Touch Sensitive to chat about the perfect movie night set-up.

We bloody love music festivals. With a cracking line up of epic musicians and mates by your side on the d-floor—it’s good vibes personified. But thanks to COVID so many of our favourites were either cancelled entirely in 2020 or postponed—yep, that’s what we call the total opposite of good vibes. 

It seems like everyone wants a little bit of G Flip in their lives right now. The Melbourne-based singer dropped a sweet collab with Illy in late 2020, performed at the Australian Open just last week and on 6 March, they’ll be taking centre stage on the TikTok float at the Mardi Gras parade blessing our ears once again with another sweet live gig. 

It’s true, our love for hip hop runs deep. We’re big fans of the genre’s boundary-breaking, rebellious attitude (perhaps a love that’s been magnified after living through the insanity that was 2020) and it’s the leading part in the revival of '90s streetwear fashion. 

It's going to be a big year for music.

For the swooners, the crooners and antics under the doonas.

We’re a sucker for a good playlist, allowing our favourite Netflix series to live on, way after the credits roll.