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

New Year, New Roster on PBS!

Thu 1 Jan 2026 to Sat 31 Jan 2026
PBS News

In January PBS listeners can expect to hear a few tweaks to our weekly programming roster, and we also welcome a brand new show to the airwaves.

After 26 years on-air, Peter and Gary wind up their epic Thursday night show Screaming Symphony on January 1, 2026, allowing for some movement across the grid and some fresh sounds for PBS listeners.

Top Feature Albums of 2025

Mon 22 Dec 2025 to Sun 28 Dec 2025
Feature Sounds

Each week throughout the year, we select one new outstanding album to feature across our platforms as a way of celebrating music that is authentic, original and pure. In 2025, we featured dozens of exceptional albums across a variety of genres that tap into various musical traditions from different corners of the world. Every one of these albums tells a profound story in its own voice, speaking directly to the soul of those willing to listen.

Top Tracks of the Week

Mon 15 Dec 2025 to Sun 21 Dec 2025
Feature Sounds

As we start to wrap up for the year - and before publishing 2025's top ten feature albums next week - we wanted to share with you ten new tracks that speak to the breadth of our sound and tap into the various musical traditions that we love. With music from Naarm to Damascus to Delhi, from liquid drum n bass and soul, to prog, folk and rock n roll, we sincerely hope you enjoy these fabulous selections.

Gorillaz - 'Damascus' feat. Omar Souleyman and Yasiin Bey

Jumpin’ The Blues Allstars - Live On The Radio Vol.1

Mon 8 Dec 2025 to Sun 14 Dec 2025
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Live On The Radio Vol.1, the exclusive album from Jumpin’ The Blues Allstars.

Watch: Screensaver Studio 5 Live

Thu 4 Dec 2025
Studio 5 Live

Three Lens Approach is the third album from Naarm/Melbourne five-piece screensaver. Tension carries across screensaver's new record, pushing and pulling between moments of upbeat, heart-on-sleeve tenderness and explosions of frustration and all-out fury. screensaver’s prismatic approach to anxiety-ridden post punk is on full show, danceable and galvanising as ever. A shared love of seventies dance music drives the band’s heartbeat, charged by elements of motorik Krautrock, new wave, moody dub and death disco, and emboldened with their asymmetrical pop sensibility.

GODTET + The Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Mon 1 Dec 2025 to Sun 7 Dec 2025
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is the self titled album from GODTET + The Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

At once bold and nuanced, this album explores the friction between improvisation and orchestration. Where the orchestra is anchored in fully composed material, GODTET remains free – navigating the work's harmonic architecture with instinct and spontaneity. Structures are fixed, but expression is fluid.

Watch: The Breakfast Spread LIVE from Fed Square

Thu 27 Nov 2025
PBS Events

Listen back to a special live broadcast of The Breakfast Spread at Fed Square, 6am to 9am Thursday November 27, 2025.  

Check out a clip of SHOUSE performing 'Love Tonight' live below:

Black Jesus eXperience - Time Telling

Mon 24 Nov 2025 to Sun 30 Nov 2025
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Time Telling, the evocative new album from Black Jesus eXperience.

Grooving, richly diverse and truth seeking, Time Telling explores the fragility of life, the preciousness of time and the importance of hope, love, joy and community. 

Watch: Toody Cole & Her Band Studio 5 Live

Thu 20 Nov 2025
Studio 5 Live

Toody Cole, co-founder and mainstay of iconic Oregon group Dead Moon and the godmother of raw DIY rock 'n' roll, returns to Australia for the first time fronting her own band, following three decades of appearances here with Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows and as a duo with her late great husband Fred Cole. In Toody Cole & Her Band, she is joined by Kelly Haliburton and Christopher March (on drums and guitar respectively) of fellow Oregon outfit Jenny Don't & The Spurs. 

Birdsnake - Biofilter

Mon 17 Nov 2025 to Sun 23 Nov 2025
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Biofilter, the debut album from synth ambassadors Birdsnake.