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Watch: Party Pest Studio 5 Live

Thu 18 Apr 2024
Studio 5 Live

Unpredictable and chaotic, Party Pest channel post-punk irreverence, blending discordant melodies, jangly guitar hooks, wild primal drumbeats, big bold bass grooves and synthesised sonic mayhem into a celebration of life as they know it.

Anything can and does happen when Party Pest play, so strap in for a wild ride and hear the band on Radio City for a special Studio 5 Live performance.

Check out Party Pest performing 'I Can Do Better' live in Studio 5 below:

Charm of Finches - Marlinchen in the Snow

Mon 15 Apr 2024 to Sun 21 Apr 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Marlinchen in the Snow, the fourth full-length album by Charm of Finches.

Recorded in the depths of winter in the woods of Nova Scotia with acclaimed Canadian producer Daniel Ledwell (Jenn Grant, The Once, Oh Pep!) after five months of touring across Australia, UK and Europe, Marlinchen in the Snow is inspired by the frozen beauty of the landscape in which it was created. The album reflects on Mabel and Ivy’s transient life on the road, belonging and the idea of home, along with the fragility of relationships.

 

Grace Cummings - Ramona

Mon 8 Apr 2024 to Sun 14 Apr 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Ramona, the third release by Australian singer/songwriter Grace Cummings. 

Sierra Ferrell - Trail of Flowers

Mon 1 Apr 2024 to Sun 7 Apr 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Trail of Flowers, the latest release from singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sierra Ferrell.

Sierra Ferrell brings a dose of beautifully strange magic to everything she touches. On her new album, she expands her sound while deepening the urgency of her songs, often revealing a wealth of wisdom within her wildly imaginative storytelling.

 

Ausecuma Beats - Dakar Bamako

Mon 25 Mar 2024 to Sun 31 Mar 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Dakar Bamako, the third studio album by Ausecuma Beats.

Dakar Bamako features a total of fourteen musicians from three cities around the world, coming together in a true cross-cultural collaboration that celebrates stories of migration, cooperation and the unifying power of music and dance as a force to bring humanity together.

Kim Gordon - The Collective

Mon 18 Mar 2024 to Sun 24 Mar 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is The Collective, the second solo album by legendary multi-disciplinary artist Kim Gordon.

Recorded in Los Angeles, The Collective follows Gordon’s 2019 full-length debut No Home Record and continues her collaboration with producer Justin Raisen (Lil Yachty, John Cale, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charli XCX, Yves Tumor), with additional production from Anthony Paul Lopez. 

Mildlife - Chorus

Mon 11 Mar 2024 to Sun 17 Mar 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Chorus, the third studio album by Mildlife. 

On Chorus, Mildlife link microcosmic personal meaning with a macro view from on high. Chorus is the sound of singular entities coalescing into a wondrous whole. It’s harmonious togetherness and celebratory symbiosis. And it’s the band’s ultimate statement of their borderline mystical unity, their unified theory of groove.

Port Fairy Folk Festival 2024

Fri 8 Mar 2024 to Mon 11 Mar 2024
PBS Presents

Port Fairy Folk Festival has revealed its first artist line up for 2024.

IWD 2024 at PBS!

Fri 8 Mar 2024
PBS News

March 8 is International Women’s Day!   

To mark the occasion PBS programmed a full 24 hours of radio celebrating the incredible women and gender diverse musicians and DJs in our community.   

Listen back to hear some of your favourite shows presented by the amazing women of PBS, including: iconic announcers, live performances, special guest presenters, a Studio 5 Live session from Sugar Fed Leopards, and heaps more! 

Check out the links below to each radio program.

Moor Mother - The Great Bailout

Mon 4 Mar 2024 to Sun 10 Mar 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is The Great Bailout, the ninth studio album by Moor Mother aka Camae Ayewa. 

Called “the poet laureate of the apocalypse,” by Pitchfork, Ayewa’s music contains multitudes of instruments, voices and cacophony that take on themes of Afrofuturism and collective memory with the forebearers of jazz, hip hop and beat poetry in mind.