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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...
PBS Presents

Port Fairy Folk Festival 2025

Fri 7 Mar 2025 to Mon 10 Mar 2025
Port Fairy Folk Festival extends its line-up with another 15 artists joining the seaside celebration, taking place across the March long weekend. This fourth announcement includes legendary 1970s US star TODD RUNDGREN, stalwarts of the...
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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PBS Events

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...

Past News

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Studio 5 Live

Closet Straights

Mon 5 Sep 2016
Listen back to Homebrew for a live set from Closet Straights. Studio 5 Live is proudly brought to you by PBS.
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PBS Events

Soul-A-Go-Go September

Sat 3 Sep 2016
Melbourne’s biggest soul and funk dance party Soul-A-Go-Go is back at the soulful surrounds of Bella Union on Saturday 3rd September.
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PBS Presents

Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (BIFEM)

Fri 2 Sep 2016 to Sun 4 Sep 2016
BIFEM, one of Australia's peak events for truly progressive music, is a platform for virtuosity in musicianship and innovation in composition.
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Community News

Music Awards Submissions Now Open

Wed 31 Aug 2016
Calling all Victorian artists, musicians and bands!
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PBS Events

Mallard Movies August: ‘Heartworn Highways’ presented by 5ft High & Rising and Acid Country

Wed 31 Aug 2016
In the next edition of PBS' monthly film series, 5ft High & Rising and Acid Country present a free screening of Heartworn Highways.
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Arts & Film

Lee Serle: Multimodal

Tue 30 Aug 2016
Director and choreographer, Lee Serle, joins Cat and Nick to chat about Multimodal presented by The Substation and Lee Serle.
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Feature Sounds

Around The House

Mon 29 Aug 2016 to Sun 4 Sep 2016
by Chook Race Chook Race Around The House (PBS feature record) Despite a string of singles and EPs over the last few years, Chook Race kept us all waiting for their self-released debut, appropriately titled...
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PBS News

PBS' Opalakia in print

Fri 26 Aug 2016
Australian Greek newspaper, Neos Kosmos, recently featured an article about PBS' great new program, Opalakia.
PBS Presents

Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds (USA)

Thu 25 Aug 2016 to Sat 27 Aug 2016
Legendary guitarist of The Cramps, Gun Club & Bad Seeds, Kid Congo Powers returns to Australia with long time cohorts, The Pink Monkey Birds.
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Studio 5 Live

Ninetynine

Thu 25 Aug 2016
Listen back to Junkyard for a live set from Ninetynine. Studio 5 Live is proudly brought to you by Coopers.
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Studio 5 Live

Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds

Tue 23 Aug 2016
Listen back to Mixing Up The Medicine for a live set from Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds.
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Arts & Film

Katie Beckett: Which Way Home

Tue 23 Aug 2016
Katie Beckett will be joining Nick and Cat this Tuesday at 8:30am to chat about the World Premiere of Which Way Home - 24th August to 3rd September.
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Feature Sounds

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Mon 22 Aug 2016 to Sun 28 Aug 2016
by Taipan Tiger Girls Taipan Tiger Girls # 2 (PBS feature record) Taipan Tiger Girls have the ability to create some of the most 'be-still-my-beating-heart' moments. Which is not particularly surprising of the sheer wealth...
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PBS Events

Jamaica Jump-Up #17: Soundsystem Special

Sat 20 Aug 2016
Heartical Hi Powa Soundsystem taking over The Gasometer Hotel for our monthly ska, rocksteady, early reggae shakedown
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PBS News

August Programming Changes

Fri 19 Aug 2016
From August you'll hear a few changes on the PBS airwaves.
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Community News

Tex Perkins to perform as part of Frank Folley fundraiser

Fri 19 Aug 2016
Tex Perkins and The Tennessee Four with Rachael Tidd perform a Johnny Cash tribute show as part of a special fundraiser
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Community News

Finalists Announced for 2016 Art Music Awards

Tue 16 Aug 2016
From jazz and symphonic pieces, to vocal, chamber and instrumental works and experimental projects, these finalists represent the very best from 2015.
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Feature Sounds

Family Tree

Mon 15 Aug 2016 to Sun 21 Aug 2016
by Kylie Auldist Kylie Auldist Family Tree (PBS feature record) Timing can be everything. Well, maybe not everything but right now I reckon it’s quite a lot for Melbourne superstar, Kylie Auldist . For the...
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PBS News

PBS Access Training Program

Mon 15 Aug 2016
We are seeking expressions of interest for an Access Training Program aiming to increase participation from women & gender diverse people in music broadcasting
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Feature Sounds

Phantom of Liberty

Mon 8 Aug 2016 to Sun 14 Aug 2016
by Camera Camera Phantom of Liberty (PBS feature record) Like most media-created genre tags ‘krautrock’ is vexatious for a bunch of reasons – the inherent racism of the term of course principal among them. Kosmicshe...