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PBS News

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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Community News

Live Below the Line

Tue 6 May 2014
From May 6th – 10th, join thousands of Australians taking the challenge to eat on $2 a day for five days – the equivalent of the extreme poverty line.
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Feature Sounds

Takes One To Know One

Mon 5 May 2014 to Sun 11 May 2014
by Graveyard Train Graveyard Train's latest album is a clear sign that they are developing as songwriters and is absolutely one of my favourite releases of the year so far. Unlike Graveyard Train's previous albums,...
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PBS Events

PBS' The Blend and Hippopotamus Rex Celebrate 10 Years on Air!

Sat 3 May 2014
PBS' Hippopotamus Rex and The Blend are both bringing together the cream of the crop to help celebrate a decade on air!
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PBS Events

Soul-A-Go-Go May!

Sat 3 May 2014
Soul-A-Go-Go is turning up the heat this May at Shebeen in the heart of the CBD with an all-star line-up of Melbourne’s best soul and funk selectors.
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Community News

Winners Announced for the 2014 Australian Jazz Bell Awards

Fri 2 May 2014 to Fri 9 May 2014
The 2014 Australian Jazz Bell Awards are pleased to announce the nominations across all categories for this year’s awards!
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Studio 5 Live

Child

Wed 30 Apr 2014
Listen back to Pojama People with Chris for a live set from Child.
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Feature Sounds

Intoxicated Man/Pink Elephants

Mon 28 Apr 2014 to Sun 4 May 2014
by Mick Harvey Mick Harvey recorded his interpretations of Serge Gainsbourg tracks across two albums, Intoxicated Man and Pink Elephants, in 1995 and 1997 respectively. They have both been packaged together and re-issued through Mute...
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Studio 5 Live

Ausmuteants

Thu 24 Apr 2014
Listen back to Fang It! with Ruari for a live set from Ausmuteants.
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PBS Presents

Steve Earle & the Dukes + Kasey Chambers

Thu 24 Apr 2014
PBS and Bluesfest Touring Proudly Present Melbourne side shows Steve Earle and the Dukes.
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Arts & Film

1, 2, 3, 4, SATAN! Exhibition

Tue 22 Apr 2014
1, 2, 3, 4, SATAN! Is an exhibition of work by some of Melbourne's greatest musicians, skaters, tattooists and artists and trouble makers.
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Feature Sounds

Tin Star

Mon 21 Apr 2014 to Sun 27 Apr 2014
by Lindi Ortega Although in some ways it seems that Lindi Ortega has come out of nowhere to Australian audiences, the Canadian country singer/songwriter has been releasing material in her native country since 2001! With...
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PBS Presents

Buddy Guy, The James Cotton Blues Band And Charlie Musselwhite

Mon 21 Apr 2014
An enormous Bluesfest sideshow will hit Melbourne on Easter Monday featuring the brilliant Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy.
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PBS Presents

Aaron Neville Dr John & The Nite Trippers

Mon 21 Apr 2014
PBS and Bluesfest Touring is proud to present a double-bill of impeccable pedigree of the musical diversity of New Orleans Blues.
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Community News

Record Store Day

Sat 19 Apr 2014
Record Store Day Australia, celebrating the local music outlet, returns for the 6th year on Saturday April 19, Easter Saturday, right across Australia.
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PBS Presents

Joss Stone and India.Arie

Thu 17 Apr 2014
The revitalized and inspirational India.Arie will be uniting with the rebellious and captivating Joss Stone.
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Studio 5 Live

Bittersweet Kicks

Thu 17 Apr 2014
Listen back to Sunglasses After Dark with Phil MacDougall for a live set from Bittersweet Kicks.
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Feature Sounds

Haul Away

Mon 14 Apr 2014 to Sun 20 Apr 2014
by Liz Green If you want to be transported back to a time when vaudeville, music halls, jazz and folkloric music ruled the scene then Liz Green’s latest album Haul Away is a must have!...
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Studio 5 Live

Nun

Mon 7 Apr 2014
Listen back to Zen Arcade with Press Gang for a live set from Nun.
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Community News

Artists United for the Great Barrier Reef

Mon 7 Apr 2014 to Mon 21 Apr 2014
Australian musical icons shown their support for the Great Barrier Reef.
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Feature Sounds

A Long Way To The Beginning

Mon 7 Apr 2014 to Sun 13 Apr 2014
by Seun Kuti A Long Way To The Beginning is the third album by Seun Kuti & Egypt 80. Seun, son of Afrobeat legend Fela, took over the band after his father’s death in 1997...