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New Season, New Roster on PBS

Wed 26 Feb 2025 to Mon 31 Mar 2025
This March you’ll hear some changes to the PBS program roster as we head into Autumn. Some of your favourite programs move into new slots to better connect with audiences, and to better represent their...
Feature Sounds

Charlie Needs Braces - NYAA WA

Mon 10 Mar 2025 to Sun 16 Mar 2025
This week's PBS Feature Album is NYAA WA by Naarm/Melbourne duo Charlie Needs Braces. NYAA WA means 'take care' in Charlie's mob’s GuriNgai language, and the songs on the album emphasise the importance of taking...
Studio 5 Live

Intermood Studio 5 Live

Tue 18 Mar 2025
Friends and brothers alike, instrumental dance outfit Intermood embrace the raw edge reminiscent of their formative musical experiences on Naarm/Melbourne’s dancefloors. Their debut extended play Casuarina is a warm and psychedelic experience which weaves between...
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Sunday Sounds: Flight 1067 to Africa and Global Village LIVE at City Hall

Sun 23 Mar 2025
Kingston Arts and PBS present Live at City Hall: Sunday Sounds , a series of free performances by some of Naarm/Melbourne’s best bands and PBS DJs at Kingston City Hall in Moorabbin. Kick back, relax...
Studio 5 Live

Liz Stringer Studio 5 Live

Thu 27 Mar 2025
Australian singer-songwriter Liz Stringer has recently announced her revelatory seventh studio album The Second High , due for release via Dot Dash Recordings on March 28. Mirroring the scope and complexity of Stringer’s sensibilities and...
Community News

SPACE 2 : DAMIEN MITCHELL

Tue 1 Apr 2025 to Wed 16 Apr 2025
After more than a decade of focusing on large-scale public murals, Damien Mitchell - a celebrated artist known for his hyper-realistic style - will unveil his first solo exhibition in over ten years, featuring an...

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Music Industry Joint Statement of Acknowledgement

Thu 1 Sep 2022
The Music Industry Review into Sexual Harm, Sexual Harassment and Systemic Discrimination report, Raising Their Voices , has been released.
Studio 5 Live

Mary Gauthier

Thu 1 Sep 2022
In June of this year, award-winning American folk singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier released Dark Enough to See the Stars, h er first album in 8 years. On the LP Mary mourns the loss of dear friends...
Community News

Upstart Award 2022

Wed 31 Aug 2022
Submissions are open now for this year's UpStart Award , with entries closing August 31, 2022. Funded by a music-loving family in Melbourne, the UpStart Award is an annual round of grants given to emerging...
Feature Sounds

CLAMM - Care

Mon 29 Aug 2022 to Sun 4 Sep 2022
CLAMM ’s second album Care is this week's PBS Feature Album. Melbourne punk power trio CLAMM explore the confusion of what it is to be a young person trying to live an honourable life in...
Archie Roach sits on a leather chair
Studio 5 Live

Archie & Amos Roach

Sat 27 Aug 2022
On July 30, Gunditjmara (Kirrae Whurrong/Djab Wurrung), Bundjalung senior elder, songman, prolific storyteller and First Nations champion, Archie Roach , passed away. His contribution to the modern Australian musical canon is unparalleled. He leaves behind...
Feature Sounds

Workhorse - No Photographs

Mon 22 Aug 2022 to Sun 28 Aug 2022
Workhorse ’s highly anticipated debut LP No Photographs is this week’s PBS Feature Album. Workhorse is the western-tinged, dream-pop project of Kaurna-based multi-instrumentalist Harriet Fraser-Barbour. The band was originally formed in late 2016 when Harriet...
Studio 5 Live

Emma Volard

Mon 22 Aug 2022
Back in June, PBS picked future-soul artist Emma Volard ’s debut album Deity as a PBS Feature Album. And for good reason. Deity is an expression of self-love, desire and hope that’s entrenched in lavish...

Szun Waves - Earth Patterns

Fri 12 Aug 2022
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Feature Sounds

King Stingray - King Stingray

Mon 8 Aug 2022 to Sun 14 Aug 2022
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Unbroken Trio in Concert

Sun 7 Aug 2022
On Sunday June 5, the Melbourne Jazz Co-operative presented a double bill with the bands Unbroken Trio and Data Entry , each featuring musicians amongst the current generation establishing themselves in the Australian scene. The...
Feature Sounds

Jitwam - Third

Mon 1 Aug 2022 to Sun 7 Aug 2022
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Archie Roach

Mon 1 Aug 2022
It is with great sadness that PBS acknowledges the passing of Gunditjmara (Kirrae Whurrong/Djab Wurrung), Bundjalung Senior Elder, songman and storyteller Archie Roach. The musical and cultural body of work Archie has gifted to the...
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Studio 5 Live

Black Jesus Experience

Sun 31 Jul 2022
Black Jesus Experience ( BJX ) is a community of musicians pumping out an irresistibly danceable array of traditional Ethiopian song and 21st century groove. BJX ’s music reflects the multicultural vibrancy of the band’s...
Anna Scionti
PBS Presents

Echuca-Moama Winter Blues Festival

Thu 28 Jul 2022 to Sun 31 Jul 2022
THE BLUES ARE BACK! After two years of COVID cancellations, Echuca Moama’s legendary Winter Blues Festival is back in 2022, bringing some of Australia’s best blues and roots artists to town from 28 to 31...
Grace Cummings
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Grace Cummings

Tue 26 Jul 2022
Grace Cummings and her band return to Melbourne following a triumphant debut international tour. After crossing continents – recording a live set for NPR's prestigious World Cafe series in the US, joining Viagra Boys on...
Feature Sounds

Ray Beadle - Stax of Blues

Mon 25 Jul 2022 to Sun 31 Jul 2022
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Studio 5 Live

Endless Boogie

Tue 19 Jul 2022
Iconic U.S. band Endless Boogie describe themselves as "two or three guitars, whatever amps you got, one wah pedal, one distortion box. The bass, the drums. Reluctant vocals." Yet they are much, much more. In...
Feature Sounds

Outright - Keep You Warm

Mon 18 Jul 2022 to Sun 24 Jul 2022
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Cool Out Sun

Tue 12 Jul 2022
Melbourne band Cool Out Sun make Afro roots music, peppered with hip hop goodness and a sunny disposition. The supergroup is a cross-cultural enterprise that sees vocalist N’fa Jones (1200 Techniques), percussionist Nui Moon (Digital...
Feature Sounds

Emma Volard - Deity

Mon 11 Jul 2022 to Sun 17 Jul 2022
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