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Data Entry is a new trio formed by drummer/composer Luke Andresen, featuring Bernard Alexander (alto saxophone) and Sam Anning (electric bass). They debuted at a presentation by the Melbourne Jazz Co-operative at The Jazzlab on...

In June of this year, award-winning American folk singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier released Dark Enough to See the Stars, h er first album in 8 years. On the LP Mary mourns the loss of dear friends...

Submissions are open now for this year's UpStart Award , with entries closing August 31, 2022. Funded by a music-loving family in Melbourne, the UpStart Award is an annual round of grants given to emerging...

CLAMM ’s second album Care is this week's PBS Feature Album. Melbourne punk power trio CLAMM explore the confusion of what it is to be a young person trying to live an honourable life in...

On July 30, Gunditjmara (Kirrae Whurrong/Djab Wurrung), Bundjalung senior elder, songman, prolific storyteller and First Nations champion, Archie Roach , passed away. His contribution to the modern Australian musical canon is unparalleled. He leaves behind...

For this edition of Wuigada we spoke with proud Noongar Wongi rapper from Boorloo (Perth), Flewnt.

Back in June, PBS picked future-soul artist Emma Volard ’s debut album Deity as a PBS Feature Album. And for good reason. Deity is an expression of self-love, desire and hope that’s entrenched in lavish...

Workhorse ’s highly anticipated debut LP No Photographs is this week’s PBS Feature Album. Workhorse is the western-tinged, dream-pop project of Kaurna-based multi-instrumentalist Harriet Fraser-Barbour. The band was originally formed in late 2016 when Harriet...

Check out this week's PBS Feature Album and the new releases we're loving.

Check out this week's PBS Feature Album and the new releases we're loving.

On Sunday June 5, the Melbourne Jazz Co-operative presented a double bill with the bands Unbroken Trio and Data Entry , each featuring musicians amongst the current generation establishing themselves in the Australian scene. The...

It is with great sadness that PBS acknowledges the passing of Gunditjmara (Kirrae Whurrong/Djab Wurrung), Bundjalung Senior Elder, songman and storyteller Archie Roach. The musical and cultural body of work Archie has gifted to the...

Check out this week's PBS Feature Album and the new releases we're loving.

Black Jesus Experience ( BJX ) is a community of musicians pumping out an irresistibly danceable array of traditional Ethiopian song and 21st century groove. BJX ’s music reflects the multicultural vibrancy of the band’s...

THE BLUES ARE BACK! After two years of COVID cancellations, Echuca Moama’s legendary Winter Blues Festival is back in 2022, bringing some of Australia’s best blues and roots artists to town from 28 to 31...

Grace Cummings and her band return to Melbourne following a triumphant debut international tour. After crossing continents – recording a live set for NPR's prestigious World Cafe series in the US, joining Viagra Boys on...

Check out this week's PBS Feature Album and the new releases we're loving.

Wuigada is a dedicated space on the front page of the PBS 106.7FM website where First Nations musicians share and celebrate music made by other First Nations musicians with PBS audiences. Wuigada was named and...

Iconic U.S. band Endless Boogie describe themselves as "two or three guitars, whatever amps you got, one wah pedal, one distortion box. The bass, the drums. Reluctant vocals." Yet they are much, much more. In...