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Mon 21 Oct 2024 to Sun 27 Oct 2024

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Luminous As It Is from award-winning songwriter Coda Chroma.

Coda Chroma (aka Kate Lucas) creates music that sways between cinematic folk and baroque pop, with otherworldly harmonies, honest and existential lyrics, suspended in deeply nuanced production.

Mon 14 Oct 2024 to Mon 11 Nov 2024

Amrap has announced a new partnership between the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) and Gadigal Information Service (GIS) to relaunch the First Sounds compilation series.

Mon 14 Oct 2024 to Sun 20 Oct 2024

This week’s PBS Feature Album is the debut album Stiletto by six-piece hypnotic dance-punk ensemble Gut Health.

Recorded in 2023 with long-term collaborator Julian Cue (CIVIC, Screensaver) and Gut Health’s Dom Willmott on a 24-track reel-to-reel tape machine, Gut Health’s debut full-length offering is an immersive ten-track foray into dancefloor-inducing soundscapes and punchy prowess, with songs oscillating between infectious up-tempo numbers, hypnotic bliss and chaotic noise edging precariously toward collapse. 

Mon 7 Oct 2024 to Sun 13 Oct 2024

This week’s PBS Feature Album is A Lion Is A Lion, the latest release from Melbourne/Naarm afro-beat duo Cool Out Sun.

Tue 1 Oct 2024 to Thu 31 Oct 2024

Everyone that joined or renewed their PBS membership during our October Spring Celebration membership drive went in the draw to win one of three great prizes - and the winners have just been announced!

1st prize: John from Mordialloc, Proud member to Bleeding Black Hearts Revue 
Luxury vineyard accommodation package from Mount Avoca Organic Winery

Tue 1 Oct 2024

Melbourne’s afro hip hop veterans Cool Out Sun are a unique cross-cultural group spearheaded by Sierra-Leonean Australian MC N'fa Jones, and South African Australian Producer Sensible J. The group will drop the bustling, percussive and beautifully melodic LP A Lion Is a Lion on Friday October 4 through their own label, House Of Beige. Featuring an incredible line up of local guests, the LP includes collaborations with Sampa The Great, Immy Owusu, Lamine Sonko, Vida Sunshyne, Bilalli and more!

Mon 30 Sep 2024 to Sun 6 Oct 2024

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Dance, No One's Watching the third studio album by UK jazz outfit Ezra Collective.

Since forming in 2012, five-piece UK jazz outfit Ezra Collective have blossomed into one of Britain’s most eclectic and acclaimed music acts. Their body of work has so far blended sounds that have defined contemporary London. By doing so, the group have become a reflection, as well as a product, of the rich array of music, cultures and people who have found their way to the city and made it their home.

Mon 23 Sep 2024 to Sun 29 Sep 2024

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Mayawa, the debut album from Northern Territory rock group Ripple Effect Band.

Sun 22 Sep 2024

The Music in Exile Spring Fundraising Fling is here! Tickets are on sale now - click here.

Music in Exile is taking over the Thornbury Bowls Club on Sunday September 22 for ther biannual fundraiser; an afternoon and evening of music and food from all corners of the community.

The line up features Bouba's Drumming Picnic, Brown Suga Princess, Genki Tanaka, Queen of Hearts, 
Scott & Charlene's Wedding and Wrong Way Up.

Mon 16 Sep 2024 to Sun 22 Sep 2024

This week’s PBS Feature Album is The Making Of Silk, the brand new album from jazz-soul multi-instrumentalist Allysha Joy.

Allysha Joy is a deeply expressive singer, songwriter, producer and keys player hailing from Naarm/Melbourne, known for both her solo work and as front woman of 30/70. A uniquely talented artist, her husky soulful voice, formidable Fender Rhodes prowess and raw poeticism has garnered legions of attentive fans the world over.