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Opelousas - Opelousafried

Mon 12 Feb 2024 to Sun 18 Feb 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Opelousafried by Melbourne’s swamp-blues powerhouse Opelousas.

Opelousafried showcases an evolution in the interplay between Kerri Simpson’s visceral vocals and  powerfully raw guitar, Anthony “Shorty” Shortte’s hypnotic grooves and swamp-soaked percussion, and
Alison Ferrier’s menacing electric guitar, keening amplified fiddle and sultry vocal tones.

Yirinda - Yirinda

Mon 12 Feb 2024 to Sun 18 Feb 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is the self-titled debut album by Meanjin/Brisbane duo Yirinda. The band combine ancient Aboriginal language with sublime modern production. Fred Leone and Samuel Pankhurst’s music invokes thousands of generations of story and culture, while emerging as something entirely new. 

Birdsnake - Birdsnake Begins

Mon 5 Feb 2024 to Sun 11 Feb 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Birdsnake Begins, the debut EP by groove merchants Birdsnake. 

Crafting a name for themselves as one of the most entrancing acts in the local scene, Birdsnake provide a free-flowing sensory experience that seamlessly combines acid jazz, psychedelic funk and down tempo grooves. The band's immersive live show is a blend of dubbed out rhythms and percussive textures that pull audiences into transcendental, droney realms.

 

Performer Drive 2024 winners announced!

Thu 1 Feb 2024 to Thu 29 Feb 2024
PBS News

Thank you to all of the incredible bands, DJs, artists and performers that joined or renewed their membership throughout February for the PBS Performer Drive. 

Now, to the winners!

1st Prize Winner: Robbie Belchamber - Performer Member of Soak

Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope

Mon 29 Jan 2024 to Sun 4 Feb 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Little Rope by American rockers Sleater-Kinney.

Little Rope is one of the finest, most delicately layered records in the band’s nearly 30-year career. To call the album flawless feels like an insult to its intent – it careens headfirst into flaw, into brokenness, a meditation on what living in a world of perpetual crisis has done to us, and what we do to the world in return.

 

COMETS - Anywhere Here

Mon 22 Jan 2024 to Sun 28 Jan 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Anywhere Here by instrumental psych jam band COMETS.

COMETS are back with another seemingly effortless number in Anywhere Here. It was recorded in a similar fashion to Rain Faces, out at Ghostriter, but this time the band sent word to a few friends to throw some sounds over the top and see what happened.

Alex Albrecht - Allambie

Mon 15 Jan 2024 to Sun 21 Jan 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Allambie by Alex Albrecht.

Alex Albrecht returns to Analogue Attic Recordings for the label's inaugural release of 2024. An immersive exploration spanning house, downtempo, and ambient genres, Albrecht guides listeners through an ephemeral sonic journey.

 

 

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MIDNIGHT DRIVER NEW YEAR'S EVE

Sun 31 Dec 2023
PBS Events

Our premier dance floor groove party is back for this special New Year's Eve edition! Featuring sets from Milo Eastwood, Ella Stoeckli, and Jonny Alexander. Read more here. 

When Pigs Fly NYE

Sun 31 Dec 2023
PBS Presents

When Pigs Fly returns to the Collingwood Children’s Farm on New Years Eve for one last boogie before the clock strikes midnight.

It’s full steam ahead: 14 incredible artists, 2 stages, 1 day. Plus, more grub (food + bars) and more dancing!

Tickets on sale now

Top Feature Albums of 2023

Mon 18 Dec 2023 to Sun 24 Dec 2023
Feature Sounds

It may come as no surprise that at PBS we passionately believe in music as a moral law. It is because, as Plato wrote all these centuries ago, music ‘gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.’  

If music is where one finds what is good in the world, then it is our moral duty to support the good work of our all-too-human music makers. In a world that is becoming increasingly inundated with artificial creations, we find ourselves more committed to celebrating human ingenuity than ever before.