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Mon 28 Oct 2024 to Sun 3 Nov 2024

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Just My Luck from BATTS, the project of Naarm/Melbourne-based musician, Tanya Batt.

The recent release follows her AMP nominated sophomore album ‘The Nightline’ which was supported around the world by BBC 6 Music, NPR, Brooklyn Vegan, NME, Sterogum and other prominent outlets. Batt’s main focus for the third album was to fall in love with music again, to find the joy and playfulness in it all, something she felt she had lost through grief and the toxicities that exist in the industry.

Mon 21 Oct 2024 to Sun 27 Oct 2024

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Luminous As It Is from award-winning songwriter Coda Chroma.

Coda Chroma (aka Kate Lucas) creates music that sways between cinematic folk and baroque pop, with otherworldly harmonies, honest and existential lyrics, suspended in deeply nuanced production.

Mon 14 Oct 2024 to Sun 20 Oct 2024

This week’s PBS Feature Album is the debut album Stiletto by six-piece hypnotic dance-punk ensemble Gut Health.

Recorded in 2023 with long-term collaborator Julian Cue (CIVIC, Screensaver) and Gut Health’s Dom Willmott on a 24-track reel-to-reel tape machine, Gut Health’s debut full-length offering is an immersive ten-track foray into dancefloor-inducing soundscapes and punchy prowess, with songs oscillating between infectious up-tempo numbers, hypnotic bliss and chaotic noise edging precariously toward collapse. 

Mon 14 Oct 2024 to Mon 11 Nov 2024

Amrap has announced a new partnership between the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) and Gadigal Information Service (GIS) to relaunch the First Sounds compilation series.

Mon 7 Oct 2024 to Sun 13 Oct 2024

This week’s PBS Feature Album is A Lion Is A Lion, the latest release from Melbourne/Naarm afro-beat duo Cool Out Sun.

Tue 1 Oct 2024 to Thu 31 Oct 2024

Everyone that joined or renewed their PBS membership during our October Spring Celebration membership drive went in the draw to win one of three great prizes - and the winners have just been announced!

1st prize: John from Mordialloc, Proud member to Bleeding Black Hearts Revue 
Luxury vineyard accommodation package from Mount Avoca Organic Winery

Mon 30 Sep 2024 to Sun 6 Oct 2024

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Dance, No One's Watching the third studio album by UK jazz outfit Ezra Collective.

Since forming in 2012, five-piece UK jazz outfit Ezra Collective have blossomed into one of Britain’s most eclectic and acclaimed music acts. Their body of work has so far blended sounds that have defined contemporary London. By doing so, the group have become a reflection, as well as a product, of the rich array of music, cultures and people who have found their way to the city and made it their home.

Mon 23 Sep 2024 to Sun 29 Sep 2024

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Mayawa, the debut album from Northern Territory rock group Ripple Effect Band.

Thu 19 Sep 2024

PBS is devastated to learn of the passing of musician, and Director of The Boite world music organisation, Zulya Kamalova.

Mon 16 Sep 2024 to Sun 22 Sep 2024

This week’s PBS Feature Album is The Making Of Silk, the brand new album from jazz-soul multi-instrumentalist Allysha Joy.

Allysha Joy is a deeply expressive singer, songwriter, producer and keys player hailing from Naarm/Melbourne, known for both her solo work and as front woman of 30/70. A uniquely talented artist, her husky soulful voice, formidable Fender Rhodes prowess and raw poeticism has garnered legions of attentive fans the world over.