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Gamelan DanAnda & Firetail - Anglayang

Mon 10 Feb 2025 to Sun 16 Feb 2025
Feature Sounds

This week's PBS Feature Album is Anglayang, the new album from acclaimed Balinese gamelan orchestra Gamelan DanAnda, in collaboration with electro-jazz-fusion group Firetail.

Congratulations to Ian Stanistreet OAM

Mon 10 Feb 2025
PBS News

Congratulations to Ian Stanistreet OAM, former PBS station manager (1982-1988) and CEO of the Community Broadcasting Foundation, who was awarded the Medal of Order of Australia (OAM) for his services to broadcast media on January 26, 2025.  The Order of Australia recognises Australians who have demonstrated outstanding service and exceptional achievement.

Introducing Rotations on PBS

Tue 4 Feb 2025
PBS News

Every Tuesday evening between 7pm and 8pm, listeners will get to hear our new multi-faceted program Rotations. The show will see PBS volunteer broadcasters program and present a month of one-hour specialist shows over four consecutive weeks. You’ll hear new program concepts and ideas, and loads of familiar PBS voices doing something a little different on the airwaves.

Brown Spirits - Cosmic Seeds

Mon 3 Feb 2025 to Sun 9 Feb 2025
Feature Sounds

This week's PBS Feature Album is Cosmic Seeds, the latest album from psychedelic Naarm/Melbourne locals Brown Spirits.

Performer Drive 2025 winners announced!

Sat 1 Feb 2025 to Fri 28 Feb 2025
PBS News

Thank you to all of the incredible bands, DJs, artists and performers that joined or renewed their membership throughout February for the PBS Performer Drive. 

Mogwai - The Bad Fire

Mon 27 Jan 2025 to Sun 2 Feb 2025
Feature Sounds

This week's PBS Feature Album is The Bad Fire, the eleventh album by Scottish rock band Mogwai.

Named after a working-class Glaswegian term for Hell, The Bad Fire reflects the difficult time that members of the band were going through at the time of writing. The music of Mogwai is a difficult thing to describe, but an easy thing to experience. At punishing volume, it can annihilate your body, leaving you as little more than a head which should by rights fall helplessly to the ground.

Top Tracks of the Week

Mon 20 Jan 2025 to Sun 26 Jan 2025
Feature Sounds

The PBS Feature Sounds and Feature Album of the week will return soon, but in the meantime, check out the list of the top tracks the PBS team are loving this week. We hope you enjoy these as much as we do!

TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING

Goat + MC Yallah - 'Nimerudi'

Sunset Sounds 2025

Sun 19 Jan 2025
PBS Presents

Stonnington’s Sunset Sounds: Unmissable Soul, Funk, and Ska vibes under the twilight skies!

Get ready to groove! The much-anticipated Sunset Sounds returns to Malvern Public Gardens for an unforgettable evening of FREE live music! Get down on Sunday January 19 for a huge evening that promises to set the park ablaze with soul, funk, and ska magic.

PBS Turns 45 - Celebrate with PBS DJs

Sat 21 Dec 2024
PBS Events

Celebrate 45 years of PBS radio on the station's actual 45th anniversary! 

Top Feature Albums of 2024

Mon 16 Dec 2024 to Sun 22 Dec 2024
PBS News

It’s not unreasonable to argue, as a great philosopher once has, that we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. We take this adage fairly seriously here at PBS. We don’t waste time, and we take every opportunity to move to the beat and to look for hope in the most surprising and unlikely places.