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Mon 5 Jun 2023 to Sun 11 Jun 2023

This week's PBS Feature Album is RVG’s highly-anticipated third album, Brain Worms. All throughout the album, it’s apparent that this is a band in very fine form. Album opener ‘Common Ground’ sets the tone for what’s to come; a shiny, thrilling, punch of an album, with all the beloved RVG hallmarks. Romy Vager’s voice is unfiltered and commanding as ever when delivering her clever, not-quite-ironic lyrics. Here, though, those lyrics feel so much less resigned to yearning, and so much more defiant and joyous.

Tue 30 May 2023

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Mon 29 May 2023 to Sun 4 Jun 2023

This week's PBS Feature Album is So This Is Love, the fifth album by Melbourne powerhouse Cash Savage and the Last Drinks by Mistletone Records via Inertia (Australia/NZ) and Glitterhouse Records (Europe). 

A pillar of Melbourne’s music and queer communities, Cash Savage has spent the past decade making tough and tender rock’n’roll with her colossal band, The Last Drinks: Joe White (guitar), Rene Mancuso (drums), Kat Mear (violin), Nick Finch (bass), Roshan Khozouei (keyboards), Dougal Shaw (guitar) and Ed Fraser (guitar).

Mon 22 May 2023 to Sun 28 May 2023

Check out the list of the top tracks the PBS team are loving this week! Soundtracking the second week of Radio Festival while we're busy packing memberships and prize packs!

TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING

RVG - 'Common Ground'

Mon 15 May 2023 to Sun 28 May 2023

Join or renew your PBS Membership between May 15 and 28 to be in the draw for a daily prize pack.

Mon 15 May 2023 to Sun 21 May 2023

Check out the list of the top tracks the PBS team are loving this week! Our soundtrack while we are packing memberships and prize packs for this year's Radio Festival from May 15 - 28!

Thu 11 May 2023

Check out the exclusive live performance by neo-bush balladeer Watty Thompson for PBS Studio 5 Live! Join Watty and explore themes of inward and outward love, togetherness, and a desire to strive and live beyond the material. 

Watch Watty Thompson perform 'Jenny' live in Studio 5:

Mon 8 May 2023 to Sun 14 May 2023

This week's PBS Feature Album is Solitary Transmissions by Brown Spirits, the local trio inspired by 1970s krautrock, psych, free-jazz and deep funk. 

Thu 4 May 2023

Studio 5 Live's are back in action and with that, PBS presented another session from our new home in Collingwood Yards, with local supergroup The Silversound.

Watch The Silversound perform 'Wolf live in Studio 5:

Mon 1 May 2023 to Fri 30 Jun 2023

The 2023 Radio Festival Major Prize winners are: