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.

News

Makaya McCraven - In These Times

Mon 26 Sep 2022 to Sun 2 Oct 2022
Feature Sounds

Makaya McCraven's album In These Times is this week's PBS Feature Album.

Black Jesus Experience - Good Evening Black Buddha

Mon 19 Sep 2022 to Sun 25 Sep 2022
Feature Sounds

Black Jesus Exprience's album Good Evening Black Buddha is this week's PBS Feature Album. 

Inspired by the land we live on and the connection to all that have gone before and will follow, inspired by the multicultural power of our community, inspired by the paradox of the story of the Black Buddha. From the perversity of the pandemic and its imposition of separation comes Good Evening Black Buddha, celebrating togetherness. Darkness is light.

Vale Uncle Jack Charles

Tue 13 Sep 2022
PBS News

PBS is deeply saddened by the passing of Boon Wurrung, Dja Dja Wurrung, Woiwurrung and Yorta Yorta Elder Uncle Jack Charles, who passed away Monday night. All of us here at the station send our love to his family and loved ones, and the countless folks who's lives he has touched.

Marlon Williams - My Boy

Mon 12 Sep 2022 to Sun 18 Sep 2022
Feature Sounds

Marlon Williams' third record My Boy is this week's PBS Feature Album. 

The New Zealand singer/songwriter announces an artist emerging anew. Gone is the solemn, country-indebted crooner with the velvet voice - in his place comes a playful, shapeshifting creature. 

Julia Jacklin - PRE PLEASURE

Mon 5 Sep 2022 to Sun 11 Sep 2022
Feature Sounds

Julia Jacklin's third album PRE PLEASURE is this week's PBS Feature Album. 

Conceived upon returning to Australia at the end of a huge world tour, and finished in a frantic few months of recording in Montreal, "The songs on this record took either three years to write or three minutes". PRE PLEASURE sees Julia Jacklin expanding beyond her signature sound, while conjuring the ripples and faultlines caused by unreliable communication. 

Upstart Award 2022

Wed 31 Aug 2022
Community News

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 Victorian singer-songwriters. Winners are chosen by a panel of local music experts.

CLAMM - Care

Mon 29 Aug 2022 to Sun 4 Sep 2022
Feature Sounds

CLAMM’s second album Care is this week's PBS Feature Album. 

Archie Roach sits on a leather chair

Archie & Amos Roach

Sat 27 Aug 2022
Studio 5 Live

Emma Volard

Mon 22 Aug 2022
Studio 5 Live

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 harmonies, broken beats and gut-wrenching lyricism. It is no surprise that her music has garnered attention from notable tastemakers, locally and internationally.  

Workhorse - No Photographs

Mon 22 Aug 2022 to Sun 28 Aug 2022
Feature Sounds

Workhorse’s highly anticipated debut LP No Photographs is this week’s PBS Feature Album.