PBS has been a welcome home to jazz since its inception. With contemporary jazz, swing, Latin, fusion, lounge, free and vocal jazz on offer throughout the week, you’ll find jazz for every taste on PBS.

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Mon 14 Aug 2023 to Sun 20 Aug 2023

This week's PBS Feature Album is the debut self-titled album by Australian based Americana duo Minor Gold (Tracy McNeil & Dan Parsons). 

Minor Gold captures the duo at their finest, weaving masterful harmonies around stripped-back, organic arrangements that draw on everything from '70s west-coast pop and Bleecker St. steeped folk to the power-ballad and Polaroid romance of the '80s. Through this superb collection of songs, Minor Gold display a spellbinding musical connection, reflecting the comfort and ease experienced as the album washes over you.

Mon 7 Aug 2023 to Sun 13 Aug 2023

This week's PBS Feature Album is Nashville-based label Easy Eye Sound's new anthology Tell Everybody! 

The album is a bracing compilation, produced by Dan Auerbach - winner of the GRAMMY Award as 2013 Producer of the Year - featuring all new, exclusive recordings cut at Easy Eye Sound’s eponymous Nashville studio. From old masters to brilliant youngbloods, acoustic blues to roiling blues-rock, the collection is a fully realised survey of the blues tradition.

Mon 31 Jul 2023 to Sun 6 Aug 2023

This week's PBS Feature Album is City of Gold from Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway.

Mon 24 Jul 2023 to Sun 30 Jul 2023

This week's PBS Feature Album is High Pass Filter's Nice Coordinated Outfit.

Mon 17 Jul 2023 to Sun 23 Jul 2023

This week's PBS Feature Album is Immy Owusu’s debut LP, LO-LIFE!.

Fri 14 Jul 2023 to Thu 31 Aug 2023

The UpStart Award is an annual grant of $10,000 to an emerging Victoria singer-songwriter. 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.

You might still be busking, you may have recorded a few tracks  or you might be playing pub gigs; but you’re not on the map yet.

The award will be adjudicated by a panel consisting of Victorian artists Angie MacMahon and Shane Howard, and a range of industry experts from community radio, retail, and streaming services.

Thu 13 Jul 2023 to Sun 16 Jul 2023

Leaps and Bounds Music Festival is warming up the heart of Yarra again this winter.

City of Yarra’s annual winter music festival, Leaps and Bounds, is heating up the streets again this July. In its 11th year, with over 40 events, spanning a diversity of live music acts, arts activities and cultural celebrations, this year’s festival is set to bring the City of Yarra to life.

Mon 10 Jul 2023 to Sun 16 Jul 2023

Pianist and composer, Sinj Clarke, has been quietly building a reputation for his laconic style of composition that is reminiscent of late seventies Italian film scores and sun-drenched exotica. Sinj Clarke’s debut EP Music For An Italian Afternoon showcased his bold orchestration and auteur's attention to detail, which he followed up with double single, 'I Fell In Love, Again' / 'Unas Horas'.

Tue 4 Jul 2023 to Thu 14 Sep 2023

UPDATE: Congratulations to Your Girl Pho - the winner of the inaugural Strawberry Fields X PBS live music comp - she's won herself a spot on this year's Strawberry Fields line up!

There were stacks of incredible entries, thanks so much to everyone that submitted their music for consideration.

The final release of tickets for Strawberry Fields are on sale now - don't miss out: strawberry-fields.com.au/tickets

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Mon 3 Jul 2023 to Sun 9 Jul 2023

When public support systems fall short, who ends up carrying the burden? The question courses through All Her Plans, the third album from local rock trio Cable Ties - this week's PBS Feature Album.

The band’s most sonically confident work yet, All Her Plans builds on Cable Ties trademarks: taut garage rhythms, wiry guitar lines, incandescent vocals. Bassist Nick Brown’s and drummer Shauna Boyle’s kraut-inflected grooves pulse behind the post-punk jag of Jenny McKechnie’s guitar.