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Drive Live 2025

Mon 24 Feb 2025 to Fri 28 Feb 2025
PBS Events

Drive Live 2025 is just around the corner, and the full line up is wild!

Wrong Way Up - Totally Right

Mon 24 Feb 2025 to Sun 2 Mar 2025
Feature Sounds

This week's PBS Feature Album is Totally Right by Naarm/Melbourne-based Afro-synth duo Wrong Way Up.

Close Counters - LOVER'S DANCE ACADEMY

Mon 17 Feb 2025 to Sun 23 Feb 2025
Feature Sounds

This week's PBS Feature Album is LOVER'S DANCE ACADEMY, the new album from Naarm/Melbourne-based duo Close Counters.

Down By The River joins the PBS Program Grid!

Thu 13 Feb 2025
PBS News

Extending a warm welcome to Lauren Plant who joins the PBS family with her brand new show on Thursday mornings from 9am, Down by the River. 

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.