Rock Indie

Local and international, new and used indie, garage, swamp rock and the latest Aussie and International releases are all represented on a wide range of Indie programs on PBS.

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Live at City Hall: Sunday Sounds with Opelousas

Sun 9 Feb 2025

PBS Events

Free Event

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 and enjoy live music in a family friendly atmosphere.

Catch Opelousas and DJ Crispi from PBS' Radio City performing for free as part of Live at City Hall: Sunday Sounds, 2pm - 5pm February 9.

Shannon & The Clams Studio 5 Live

Tue 28 Jan 2025

Studio 5 Live

In August 2022, Shannon Shaw’s world was turned inside out. With mere weeks to go until their wedding, the singer’s fiancé, Joe Haener, died in a horrific car accident in front of his family’s vegetable farm in Oregon. It was a devastating loss that hit Shannon & The Clams with cataclysmic force. Shaw’s bandmates, guitarist Cody Blanchard, keyboard player Will Sprott, and drummer Nate Mahan, had also grown close to Haener, a drummer and fixture of the Bay Area music scene. They cancelled shows and rallied around Shaw as fans reached out to show their support.

Top Tracks of the Week

Mon 20 Jan 2025 to Sun 26 Jan 2025

Feature Sounds

The PBS Feature Sounds and Feature Album of the week will return soon, but in the meantime, check out the list of the top tracks the PBS team are loving this week. We hope you enjoy these as much as we do!

TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING

Goat + MC Yallah - 'Nimerudi'

PBS Turns 45 - Celebrate with PBS DJs

Sat 21 Dec 2024

PBS Events

Celebrate 45 years of PBS radio on the station's actual 45th anniversary!

Top Feature Albums of 2024

Mon 16 Dec 2024 to Sun 22 Dec 2024

PBS News

It’s not unreasonable to argue, as a great philosopher once has, that we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. We take this adage fairly seriously here at PBS. We don’t waste time, and we take every opportunity to move to the beat and to look for hope in the most surprising and unlikely places.

Watch: Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders Studio 5 Live

Thu 12 Dec 2024

Studio 5 Live

The Rankoutsiders are the ideal vehicle for Pat Todd's fantastic songs. A prolific writer with an eye on life in the margins - whether they be in small towns or the big sprawling city he has called home for 40 years - Todd routinely hits the mark where youth and the advancement of age find common ground in alienation and willfulness. Pat knows that rock’n’roll is not necessarily a young person's game, and nor is it a glamorous one; the name he gave this band accurately points to where he and they are coming from.

SO.Crates - Be-Sides and Rarities

Mon 9 Dec 2024 to Sun 15 Dec 2024

Feature Sounds

This week's PBS Feature Album is Be-Sides and Rarities, the latest release from Australian hip-hop/neo soul duo SO.Crates.

SO.Crates are a boom-bap prayer sent live and direct from the heart of two of the culture’s most committed students. With a legacy built on releasing a steady flow of cold-crush records and delivering uplifting live performances to the party people, SO.Crates prove that hip-hop’s golden era is not a lost date in time, but a foundational state of mind.