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Mon 3 Apr 2023 to Sun 9 Apr 2023

This week's PBS Feature Album is Dream-self, the third studio album by Ballarat based cinematic indie-folk project Coda Chroma, fronted by award winning singer/songwriter Kate Lucas. 

Mon 27 Mar 2023 to Sun 2 Apr 2023

This week's PBS Feature Album is Disseminate by RBI. Following multiple appearances on local
Naarm label digital compilations, RBI lands on Butter Sessions with a full length worth of downtempo, ambient and full throttle, braindance-inspired dnb/jungle cuts. 

Sun 26 Mar 2023

Over the 2023 Labour Day long weekend, thousands of music lovers descended on Port Fairy for the annual Port Fairy Folk Festival. This year’s event featured a very special concert – The Juke Joint, Live on Stage.  For two hours Matt Frederick presented his long-running PBS blues show to a packed house at the Pyipgil Gundidj stage, and introduced live sets from Early James, Blue Moon Marquee and Fiona Boyes (pictured).

Sat 25 Mar 2023

PBSFM & Strawberry Fields Presents Good Times, a new intimate concept to combat your festival fatigue.

Mon 20 Mar 2023 to Sun 26 Mar 2023

This week's PBS Feature Album is Feed The Fire by The Rookies. Born in the spring of 2014 on the forgotten end of Brunswick Street in a dimly lit room full of sweat and beer at The Rooks Return, The Rookies started as a quiet set of background jazz for punters while they imbibed their cocktails. This quickly devolved into an uninhibited, drunken dance party reminiscent of a time almost forgotten.

Mon 13 Mar 2023 to Sun 19 Mar 2023

This week's PBS Feature Album is You Never Know, the third studio album by shoegaze-dream pop outfit Flyying Colours, landing Friday 17 March via Poison City / Club AC30. 

Fri 10 Mar 2023 to Mon 13 Mar 2023

Port Fairy Folk Festival have announced the third artist line-up for their major four-day event by the mighty Southern Ocean running across the labour day long weekend, 10 - 13 March, 2023.

Thu 9 Mar 2023

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Wed 8 Mar 2023

Join the Women of Soul Collective for the ultimate International Women’s Day Celebration.

For one night only, vocalists Kylie Auldist, Chelsea Wilson, JoysSoul Music, Germaine McCarthy, Carla Troiano and Stella Angelico, perform original soul, r’n’b and funk with their incredible six-piece band at The Corner Hotel on March 8. 

Wed 8 Mar 2023

PBS was excited to celebrate the incredible women and non-binary people in our community with a special 24 hours of broadcasting on International Women’s Day, Wednesday March 8. 

Presented by the amazing women of PBS, including regular announcers, fill in presenters and special guests, listen back to a diverse array of genres across the day and into the night.