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Sat 6 Dec 2025

This December, Jamaican Music & Food Festival returns – bigger, bolder, and more vibrant than ever.

Since 2016, the Jamaican Music & Food Festival has been the beating heart of summer, celebrating the rhythms, flavours, and island vibes of Jamaica. In 2025, the festival returns to Seaworks with an explosive mix of international stars and local legends, delivering a full day of pure Caribbean energy.

Sat 15 Nov 2025

Town Folk Festival returns to Djaara/Castlemaine on Saturday November 15 with yet another impressive lineup of local and international music. Led by Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, the group return to Australia with their much-celebrated catalogue of indie anthems as well as 2025’s career-defining self-titled album.

Mon 15 Sep 2025 to Sun 21 Sep 2025

This week's PBS Feature Album is Blush Response, the third album from Naarm/Melbourne trio Acopia.

The full-length album distils Acopia’s quiet intensity into its clearest form yet. A reflective and emotionally articulate collection, the eight-track record finds the band exploring themes of unresolved emotions, distance in relationships, and the delicate balance between fragility and resilience.

Mon 8 Sep 2025 to Sun 14 Sep 2025

This week's PBS Feature Album is the highly anticipated sophomore album Hearts Enduring
Lingering Loss
from The Maggie Pills.

Led by Argentinian front woman Delfi Sorondo and Venezuelan drummer Mario Perez, The Maggie Pills
are a fierce Naarm/Melbourne-based six-piece outfit who embody the spirit of the indie/alternative movement and the urgency of punk, with an intense and raw live performance.

Sat 6 Sep 2025

Sovereign Day Out - Saturday September 6 from 12:00pm - 10:30pm.

Wed 3 Sep 2025 to Thu 4 Sep 2025

Celebrate independent airwaves supporting local music, Tune In and Turn Up! First-time callers, long-time listeners from across the community radio landscape - Sounds Like Community Radio returns to Meanjin/Brisbane station 4ZZZFM, in celebration of their 50th year. 

Mon 1 Sep 2025 to Sun 7 Sep 2025

This week's PBS Feature Album is Molasses, the sophomore album from Eora/Sydney soul songstress Natalie Slade. 

Staying true to her debut album Control's style of Australian future soul, Molasses has an emphasis on poetic storytelling with Natalie's lyrics and melodies heard against a lush bed of string arrangements and the influence of Sampology’s soulful but gritty sensibility.

Mon 25 Aug 2025 to Sun 31 Aug 2025

This week's PBS Feature Album is Strange Love from Bleak Squad, the new Naarm/Melbourne four-piece comprised of true Australian art-rock royalty Adalita (Magic Dirt), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party), Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Mess Esque) and Marty Brown (Art of Fighting).