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PBS is a leader in the blues and roots genres. If you enjoy blues, country, bluegrass, doo wop, gospel, Ska or old-school Rhythm and Blues then we definitely have something for you!

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Mildlife - Chorus

Mon 11 Mar 2024 to Sun 17 Mar 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Chorus, the third studio album by Mildlife. 

On Chorus, Mildlife link microcosmic personal meaning with a macro view from on high. Chorus is the sound of singular entities coalescing into a wondrous whole. It’s harmonious togetherness and celebratory symbiosis. And it’s the band’s ultimate statement of their borderline mystical unity, their unified theory of groove.

Listen back: The Juke Joint LIVE at Port Fairy Folk Festival 2024

Sun 10 Mar 2024
PBS Events

Experience PBS making radio live on stage at this year's Port Fairy Folk Festival.

Port Fairy Folk Festival 2024

Fri 8 Mar 2024 to Mon 11 Mar 2024
PBS Presents

Port Fairy Folk Festival has revealed its first artist line up for 2024.

IWD 2024 at PBS!

Fri 8 Mar 2024
PBS News

March 8 is International Women’s Day!   

To mark the occasion PBS programmed a full 24 hours of radio celebrating the incredible women and gender diverse musicians and DJs in our community.   

Listen back to hear some of your favourite shows presented by the amazing women of PBS, including: iconic announcers, live performances, special guest presenters, a Studio 5 Live session from Sugar Fed Leopards, and heaps more! 

Check out the links below to each radio program.

Moor Mother - The Great Bailout

Mon 4 Mar 2024 to Sun 10 Mar 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is The Great Bailout, the ninth studio album by Moor Mother aka Camae Ayewa. 

Called “the poet laureate of the apocalypse,” by Pitchfork, Ayewa’s music contains multitudes of instruments, voices and cacophony that take on themes of Afrofuturism and collective memory with the forebearers of jazz, hip hop and beat poetry in mind. 

Watch: Drive Live 2024

Mon 19 Feb 2024 to Fri 23 Feb 2024
PBS Events

Join us as we revisit our massive Drive Live from back in February! Thanks to the legends at Trade Creative, we're able to relive the amazing week with videos of the full live performances. 

From Monday February 19 - Friday February 23, Drive Live 2024 featured two acts performing daily – LIVE, and direct to our PBS community via the airwaves from Collingwood Yards' Music Market.

Maddison Carter - Polymorphic

Mon 19 Feb 2024 to Sun 25 Feb 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Polymorphic, the groundbreaking project from Melbourne based visionary percussionist and composer Maddison Carter.

High Times 2024

Sun 18 Feb 2024
PBS Presents

PBS, Northcote Theatre, Good Intent & Close Counters present High Times. 

Join the celebrations for Northcote Rise Festival’s return after 13 years across three spaces on Sunday February 18: Northcote Theatre, Bastings St and High Note. 

Opelousas - Opelousafried

Mon 12 Feb 2024 to Sun 18 Feb 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Opelousafried by Melbourne’s swamp-blues powerhouse Opelousas.

Opelousafried showcases an evolution in the interplay between Kerri Simpson’s visceral vocals and  powerfully raw guitar, Anthony “Shorty” Shortte’s hypnotic grooves and swamp-soaked percussion, and
Alison Ferrier’s menacing electric guitar, keening amplified fiddle and sultry vocal tones.

Yirinda - Yirinda

Mon 12 Feb 2024 to Sun 18 Feb 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is the self-titled debut album by Meanjin/Brisbane duo Yirinda. The band combine ancient Aboriginal language with sublime modern production. Fred Leone and Samuel Pankhurst’s music invokes thousands of generations of story and culture, while emerging as something entirely new.