Funk Soul

PBS has the best of new and classic funk, deep soul, crossover, Northern soul, disco and soulful electronic. If you want to find out about the greats of the past of the sounds of today, then PBS has all of your funk and soul needs covered.

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Australian Art Orchestra Creative Music Intensive: EOIs Open Now

Mon 9 Sep 2024 to Thu 19 Sep 2024
Community News

Expressions of interest for the Australian Art Orchestra's 2024 Creative Music Intensive (CMI) are currently open, and the closing date is fast approaching! Follow the link to submit your application before June 9th.

Party Dozen - Crime In Australia

Mon 9 Sep 2024 to Sun 15 Sep 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Crime In Australia by noise-rock duo Party Dozen.

Soul A Go Go - Celebrating 40 Years of Vince Peach on PBS

Sat 7 Sep 2024
PBS Events

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40 Years of Vince Peach on PBS

Wed 4 Sep 2024
PBS News

This September, Vince “The Prince” Peach celebrates 40 years of volunteering at PBS.  The host of Soul Time, the world's longest-running radio soul show, Vince has spent a lifetime chasing and championing soul music. As a teenager in 1960s Liverpool, England, he was in with the in-crowd, clutching their holdalls, making the pilgrimage to venues such as Manchester's The Twisted Wheel and Wigan Casino. Legendary underground clubs where those in the know danced all night to Motown and rare soul 45s imported from the USA.

Cong Josie - Moto Zone

Mon 2 Sep 2024 to Sun 8 Sep 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Moto Zone, the sophomore album from local wild greaser with an ever-broken heart, Cong Josie.

Queenie - New Moult

Mon 26 Aug 2024 to Sun 1 Sep 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Queenie's debut, New Moult.

Small Town Romance - Home Fires

Mon 19 Aug 2024 to Sun 25 Aug 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Home Fires, the long awaited second record from the Melbourne outfit Small Town Romance. 

On their latest release, Home Fires presents a rich and ambitious collection of songs bursting with life and finely attuned insights. With a knack for a story, an uncanny ear for melody and an innate poeticism, Small Town Romance blend folk, country and roots influences to create a sound that is uniquely their own.

Proto Moro - PLASMATA

Mon 12 Aug 2024 to Sun 18 Aug 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is PLASMATA, the sophomore record from four-piece funk-punk ensemble Proto Moro.

PLASMATA draws inspiration from Greek mythology, the stories of Medusa and Hephaestus serving as a statement to the environmental atrocities being committed by mining companies and big corporations on Indigenous Country today. The anxiety that comes with the destruction that capitalism has created embodies itself within the instruments and voices of Proto Moro, giving the record its explosive sound.

Darvid Thor - In The Space You Carry

Mon 5 Aug 2024 to Sun 11 Aug 2024
Feature Sounds

This week’s PBS Feature Album is the debut record In The Space You Carry by local multi-instrumentalist Darvid Thor. 

In The Space You Carry is a catharsis from youth, a shedding of skin. Leaning into the cinematic and orchestral spaces within the indie and alternative music idiom, Darvid’s absorbing, photosynthetic, warped, beautiful music reminds us to slow down, take a breath, and take stock of what’s around us.

UpStart Award 2024 - entries open now

Thu 1 Aug 2024 to Sat 31 Aug 2024
Community News

Entries have opened for the annual UpStart Award, closing at midnight on August 31.

The UpStart Award is an annual grant for emerging Victorian singer-songwriters. Each year the winner of the award receives a grant of $10,000, with 2nd place receiving $3000 and 3rd place receiving $2000. The remaining 7 artists, who make up the top 10, will receive a grant of $1000. The award is funded by a music loving family in Melbourne and the winner will be decided by a panel of local artists and music experts.