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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.

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Blues Rendezvous - A Juke Joint Session

Sat 20 Jan 2024
PBS Events

PBS is proud to present our very first Blues Rendezvous! This Juke Joint session will feature sets from Checkerboard Lounge, Lauren & The Painkillers, and Jarrod Shaw! Read more here. 

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.

 

 

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. 

Checkerboard Lounge - Roller Coaster

Mon 11 Dec 2023 to Sun 17 Dec 2023
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Roller Coaster by Checkerboard Lounge.

Roller Coaster is the first record to feature the band's current line-up, including Zoe Frater on bass, group founder Carl Pannuzzo on vocals and drums, Shannon Bourne on guitar, and Tim Neal on Hammond Organ. 

Super American Eagle - Super American Eagle

Mon 4 Dec 2023 to Sun 10 Dec 2023
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is the self titled release by power psych trio Super American Eagle.

From a lightning moment of musical connection, Super American Eagle have built a thrilling, fuzz-filtered debut of urgent and essential psych and super heavy rock vibes. On their eponymous release, the band deliver manna for heavy rock fans craving ergine detours into noise, psych and sludgy dank, herbal grooves.  

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Deeep Space LIVE from the Arts Centre Forecourt

Mon 27 Nov 2023
PBS Events

Don't miss everyone's favourite Monday morning excursion through sound, Deeep Space, broadcasting LIVE from ALWAYS LIVE SOUNDBOX on the Arts Centre Forecourt - 9am ‘til 11am, Monday November 27.

André 3000 - New Blue Sun

Mon 27 Nov 2023 to Sun 3 Dec 2023
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is New Blue Sun, the debut solo album by André 3000.

Marysville Music Weekend 2023

Fri 24 Nov 2023 to Sun 26 Nov 2023
PBS Presents

Marysville Music Weekend has brought the best of Americana, blues and folk artists to the picturesque mountain town of Marysville since 2015 and returns this year from November 24-26. Tickets are on sale now.

Festival organisers are delighted to announce that Australian music queen Kate Ceberano and psych-folk storyteller William Crighton will be heading the line-up for the 2023 event, with something for everyone this year in a series of featured concerts over the weekend.