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Mon 26 May 2025 to Sun 1 Jun 2025

This week's PBS Feature Album is Into The Doldrums, the debut album from Now Always Fades.

With four albums under his Sonny Ism alias, Naarm/Melbourne singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and mix engineer Xavier Bacash flips the script and starts again with the debut album Into The Doldrums. 

Fri 23 May 2025 to Sun 1 Jun 2025
Moonee Valley will once again come alive at night for its free micro-music festival, Valley Sounds 2025, where music lovers can revel in live performances across the municipality from May 23 – June 1 as part of the Live and Local program.  
Mon 19 May 2025 to Sun 25 May 2025

Check out the list of the top tracks the PBS team are loving this week! They are the releases soundtracking the second week of Radio Festival 2025 while we're busy packing memberships and prize packs! Keep The Beat with PBS and enjoy these tracks we're spinning.

TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING THIS WEEK:

Folk Bitch Trio - 'Cathode Ray'

Mon 12 May 2025 to Sun 25 May 2025

Join or renew your PBS Membership between May 12 and 25 to be in the draw for a daily prize pack.

Mon 12 May 2025 to Sun 18 May 2025

Check out the list of the top tracks the PBS team are loving this week! They are the releases soundtracking the first week of Radio Festival 2025 while we're busy packing memberships and prize packs! Keep The Beat with PBS and enjoy these tracks we're spinning.

TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING THIS WEEK:

Immy Owusu and Sensible J - 'Curly Hair'

Thu 8 May 2025

Beloved fan favourite, riverboat chic rock-n-roller Pokey LaFarge and his band are back in Australia this May, serving up flavours of mambo, Tropicália, rocksteady, and mid-century American rock-and-roll across the country. 

It’s been six years since the Illinois-born singer songwriter embraced the southern shores of Australia, when Pokey LaFarge toured the country in 2019 with a then unknown, Sierra Ferrell. 

Mon 5 May 2025 to Sun 11 May 2025

This week's PBS Feature Album is Legends, the third album from experimental duo Wilson Tanner.

Legends is a wine-soaked agricultural fantasy, made among the grapevines at Manon Farm in South Australia. Where the duo’s earlier works settled into the sun-struck torpor of a suburban Perth backyard (69) or drifted off-course on a riverboat on Port Phillip Bay (ii), Legends trades salt air for vineyard sweat, the scrape of boots on dry earth and workers’ radios humming with the summer test cricket season.

Thu 1 May 2025 to Mon 30 Jun 2025

Thanks so much to everyone that helped us Keep The Beat during Radio Festival 2025. Ella Stoeckli joined Crispi on July 3's edition of Radio City to announce all of the prize winners from this year's Radio Festival prize draw - check below to see if you've won, or listen back here.

1st major prize - Bongo the Boo Cat from Eltham, Patron Pet Member of Switched On 

Mon 28 Apr 2025 to Sun 4 May 2025

This week's PBS Feature Album is Out Of Focus, the new expansive psych-rock album from Grinding Eyes.

Forming in 2016 and named after a 1960s Spanish B-grade horror film, Grinding Eyes have always played the long game, carefully constructing sonically dense and dynamically expansive albums. Out Of Focus is a thundering ride through waves of droning guitars, lush melodic hooks and driving kraut inspired repetition.

Thu 24 Apr 2025

PBS is stoked to announce the next edition of MIDNIGHT DRIVER will be at Naarm/Melbourne’s most loved nightclub REVOLVER UPSTAIRS on Thursday April 24 (Anzac Day holiday eve) with PBS DJs MZRizk, Mike Gurrieri and Jonny Alexander, and Steady Weather performing live.