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Experience PBS making radio live on stage at this year's Port Fairy Folk Festival . The Juke Joint 's Matt Frederick hosted two hours of music on the Pyipgil Gundij stage on Sunday March 10...

March 8 is International Women’s Day! To mark the occasion PBS programmed a full 24 hours of radio celebrating the incredible women and gender diverse musicians and DJs in our community. Listen back to hear...

Sugar Fed Leopards play sweet original music emanating from somewhere in the sequinned space between disco, soul, doo-wop and rock n roll. The band make music which is an ode to disco lights, bar hopping,...

Port Fairy Folk Festival has revealed its first artist line up for 2024.

This week’s PBS Feature Album is The Great Bailout, the ninth studio album by Moor Mother aka Camae Ayewa. Called “the poet laureate of the apocalypse,” by Pitchfork, Ayewa’s music contains multitudes of instruments, voices...

Join un Projects for their first Victorian based public program for the year: changing, swelling and sometimes bursting , an evening of readings and presentations at West Space Gallery on Thursday, February 22 from 6-8pm...

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Polymorphic, the groundbreaking project from Melbourne based visionary percussionist and composer Maddison Carter. Polymorphic is Maddison Carter's latest venture, drawing upon his fascination for rhythmic complexity. Whilst blurring the...

Your 2024 Drive Live line up is here!

PBS, Northcote Theatre, Good Intent & Close Counters present High Times. Join the celebrations for Northcote Rise Festival ’s return after 13 years across three spaces on Sunday February 18: Northcote Theatre, Bastings St and...

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Opelousafried by Melbourne’s swamp-blues powerhouse Opelousas. Opelousafried showcases an evolution in the interplay between Kerri Simpson’s visceral vocals and powerfully raw guitar, Anthony “Shorty” Shortte’s hypnotic grooves and swamp-soaked...

This week’s PBS Feature Album is the self-titled debut album by Meanjin/Brisbane duo Yirinda. The band combine ancient Aboriginal language with sublime modern production. Fred Leone and Samuel Pankhurst’s music invokes thousands of generations of...

Porpoise Spit generate a stirring brand of rock that merges heartfelt ballads, raucous energy, thrashing guitars and a socially progressive punk spirit. The band has built an audience in Melbourne and increasingly around Australia playing...

Take Note are looking for their 2024 Take Note Jazz Leader. Applications are now open until 12pm on Monday February 26, 2024. Now in its sixth year, Take Note is a program that addresses the...

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Birdsnake Begins , the debut EP by groove merchants Birdsnake. Crafting a name for themselves as one of the most entrancing acts in the local scene, Birdsnake provide a...

Origin of You is a startling new collaboration between Chinese-Australian composers Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 and Becky Sui Zhen, forming spontaneously one wintry afternoon in Melbourne and enduring with bonds that will last longer than...

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. Now, to the winners! 1st Prize Winner: Robbie Belchamber -...

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Little Rope by American rockers Sleater-Kinney. Little Rope is one of the finest, most delicately layered records in the band’s nearly 30-year career. To call the album flawless feels...

Calling all rock music listeners! 'Let There Be Rock' is a research project led by PhD candidate Charlotte Markowitsch which seeks to capture the status of rock in Australian popular culture. 

 To do this,...

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Anywhere Here by instrumental psych jam band COMETS. COMETS are back with another seemingly effortless number in Anywhere Here . It was recorded in a similar fashion to Rain...