Jazz

PBS has been a welcome home to jazz since its inception. With contemporary jazz, swing, Latin, fusion, lounge, free and vocal jazz on offer throughout the week, you’ll find jazz for every taste on PBS.

News

DJ Plead - Please

Mon 29 Jun 2026 to Sun 5 Jul 2026
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Please, the latest release from Berlin-based DJ Plead.

A lot can happen in a few years. For DJ Plead's Jarred Beeler that means making a whole new album, throwing it away, then releasing something else entirely. Gleaned from a folder of 120 demos and sketches made between 2023 and 2025, Please is a cool composite of the Lebanese-Australian producer's distinctive musical palette blending the techno, house, and dub of the club with the dabke, mijwiz and shaabi keys of a Levantine dancing circle.

Leah Senior - Pt. Roadknight

Mon 22 Jun 2026 to Sun 28 Jun 2026
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Pt. Roadknight, the new full length release from luminous folk diviner Leah Senior.

Vika & Linda - Where Do You Come From?

Mon 15 Jun 2026 to Sun 21 Jun 2026
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Where Do You Come From?, the ninth studio album from trailblazing vocal duo Vika & Linda.

​Watch: Tony Soprano Band​ Studio 5 Live

Mon 15 Jun 2026
Studio 5 Live

Blending downtempo electronica, breaks and live instrumentation, new project Tony Soprano Band released their debut album Downtempo 1 on May 22 via Dune Castle.

Downtempo 1 sits at the intersection of live band interplay and downtempo electronic music. 
Drawing from the language of breaks, sampling and loop-based composition, every sound on the 
record originates from live performance. Drums, bass, synthesizers and hardware elements were 
performed simultaneously, with no fixed arrangements or predetermined outcomes.

Reclink Community Cup 2026

Sun 14 Jun 2026
PBS Presents

Reclink Community Cup will return to Victoria Park, Abbotsford, on Sunday 14 June.

Krakatau - Terra Ignota

Mon 8 Jun 2026 to Sun 14 Jun 2026
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Terra Ignota, the long-awaited new full length release from elusive Naarm-based fusion ensemble Krakatau.

Listen back: Stone Love at The Astor

Fri 5 Jun 2026
PBS Events

Celebrate 20 years of drive-time radio show Stone Love on PBS, with a special live broadcast at the Astor Theatre in St. Kilda on Friday June 5.

Tony Soprano Band - Downtempo 1

Mon 1 Jun 2026 to Sun 7 Jun 2026
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is the improvised electronica release, Downtempo 1, from the newly formed Tony Soprano Band.

Recorded and released via Dune Castle Records, the Tony Soprano Band are an instrumental project centred around live improvisation, collaboration and the studio as an instrument. Operating as a
rotating cast of musicians, the project is shaped within the Dune Castle environment.

National Reconciliation Week 2026

Wed 27 May 2026 to Wed 3 Jun 2026
Community News

National Reconciliation Week 2026 runs May 27 to June 3.

This year's Reconciliation Week theme is All In. It's a call for every Australian to commit wholeheartedly to reconciliation, not just this week, but every single day. Reconciliation isn't something that happens on its own, and it's not the sole responsibility of First Nations people, who have carried that weight for far too long. It asks something of all of us.

National Sorry Day - May 26

Tue 26 May 2026
Community News

Tuesday May 26 is National Sorry Day.

Each year on May 26, we acknowledge the Stolen Generations: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who were forcibly removed from their families, communities and cultures under past government policies. We honour their strength, resilience and survival, and we stand with survivors and their families today.