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PBS Drive Live 2023 - artwork by Shelby De Fazio
Mon 20 Feb 2023 to Fri 24 Feb 2023

Relive Drive Live 2023, featuring videos of all 10 acts!

Tue 14 Feb 2023 to Sat 25 Mar 2023

Malthouse Outdoor Stage returns for Summer 2023 with an eclectic program that amplifies bold and experimental voices at Melbourne’s destination outdoor performance hub.

Mon 13 Feb 2023 to Sun 19 Feb 2023

This week's PBS Feature Album is Taken By Force, the new exhilarating and reimagined proto-punk album by CIVIC. 

The Boite’s professional development; The Portfolio Project flyer.
Fri 10 Feb 2023

Calling all emerging culturally and linguistically diverse artists in Naarm! Applications for The Boite’s professional development; The Portfolio Project is open till February 10. It is a professional development program designed to empower and give creative and networking opportunities, resources, skills and assets.

 

Culturally diverse solo artists/songwriters, duos and bands are invited to apply and will need to be available between early March until July 2023.

Mon 6 Feb 2023 to Sun 12 Feb 2023

This week's PBS Feature Album is Barney McAll's Precious Energy ReUp. This new 12-track remix album gets a fresh twist after receiving critical acclaim and nominations for an ARIA award and the Australian Music Prize, as well as winning a Music Victoria Award.

Artwork by Jasper Fearnley.
Tue 31 Jan 2023

PBS is once again running its Annnouncer Training course, with submissions open for classes in March, April and June 2023

 Gena Rose Bruce standing outside with windswept hair. They are wearing a flowing white gown.
Mon 30 Jan 2023 to Sun 5 Feb 2023

Deep Is The Way is the second full-length album from Melbourne-based singer/songwriter Gena Rose Bruce. The album chronicles Bruce's fraught path back into the light, as she processes death and inner turmoil to emerge with a newfound state of strength and resilience. 


Our Survival Day event poster.
Thu 26 Jan 2023

Our Songlines presents Our Survival Day 2023 - An Indigenous-led community event providing a safe and culturally empowering space for First Nations people and their allies to gather on January 26. 

A collage of album cover artworks
Mon 23 Jan 2023 to Sun 29 Jan 2023

Check out what the PBS team have rated as the top tracks of the week!

Album cover collage
Mon 16 Jan 2023 to Sun 22 Jan 2023

Check out what the PBS team has rated as the top tracks of the week!