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NewsWin VIP Tickets to Parklife
We have a double VIP pass to giveaway in each city that Parklife will be making an appearance.
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NewsHarvest Festival 2012 Lineup, Dates and Locations
Harvest is back for its second year and the official lineup has now been announced.
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NewsWin Ten Nights on the Town
Concrete Playground is giving you the chance to experience the best of Sydney's cultural life for an entire month!
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NewsTen ’90s Bands That Should Tour Australia
There's '90s nostalgia in the air, and we're grabbing it by the high waist of its mom jeans.
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NewsThe Best Places in Sydney to Hear Music for Free
Save your coin for ciders at one of these no-cover venues.
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NewsThe Ten Best Music Shops in Sydney
Get out of the iTunes store and immerse yourself in one of these musical wonderlands.
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GuideGroup Dining: The Best International Restaurants for Celebrating the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023™
Get the gang together to fully embrace this footy season with a culinary journey throughout Sydney.
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GuideEight Vivid Sydney Highlights to Add to Your Diary If You Want to Farewell Winter with a Bang
Put these big-ticket items on your hit list, stat.
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GuideTen Sydney Solstice Highlights You Should Have on Your Radar This Winter
Don’t hibernate — head to debaucherous feasts, aquarium nightclubs and music-filled stargazing sessions instead.
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GuideSix Gigs to Catch During Sydney Solstice If You Can't Get Enough of Live Tunes
After so many months without live music, you've got some catching up to do — here's your chance.
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GuideNine Outdoor Adventures You Can Have in Sydney This Winter If You Unabashedly Love the Cold
Embrace your favourite season with laneway dance parties, harbourside ice rinks and kayak trips under the stars.
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NewsThe xx Announce a New Album and Australian Tour Dates
The Mercury Prize-winning band are headed down under in July ahead of their sophomore album launch in September.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Electronic Musician and Producer, Elizabeth Rose
She’s been compared to Bjork, Fever Ray and Bat for Lashes, but Elizabeth Rose has a sound that’s all her own.
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NewsSpotify Launches in Australia
Spotify, the digital music service that allows you to instantly discover, play and share over 16 million music tracks on demand, has arrived on Australian shores.
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NewsThe Ten Best Made-For-TV Bands
To celebrate the Conchords' tour, here are ten made-for-TV bands that have rocked the tube in decades gone by.
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NewsTen Musicians You Should be Following on Instagram
Ten Instagram accounts that give you a look inside the intoxicating life of a modern muso.
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NewsColdplay Announce Australasian Tour
After promising a return to Australian shores earlier this year, Coldplay have announced the details of their November tour.
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NewsThe Best Apps for Discovering New Music
Eight cool music discovery apps you can access right now.
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NewsA Glamping Guide for Music Festivals
Gear up for all of winter's festivals with 10 glamping necessities.
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NewsSplendour in the Grass Sydney Sideshows Announced
Missed out on Splendour in the Grass tickets? No doubt you'll be excited to hear this latest announcement about sideshow gigs in Sydney.
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NewsAustralia’s ’90s Music Revival
It seems as one group leaves, another jumps on the Aussie touring bandwagon.
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NewsWin a Double Pass to Autumn Music 2012
Enter to win one of three double passes to the Seasoned Music: Autumn 2012 event.
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NewsThe Very Best of Sydney in 2013
Concrete Playground's shortlist of the best places, experiences and events in this fine city.
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NewsThe Avalanches Release a New Mixtape, Maybe
This past weekend, the Australian band tweeted a mysterious message to fans, with a link to a mix titled 'A Sleepy Bedtime Mix for Young Ones'.
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NewsThe Shins Announce Australian Tour
Currently touring the US, The Shins will be at Splendour In The Grass as well as headlining a Sydney gig at the Hordern Pavilion.
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NewsJack White’s Solo Debut to be Live-Streamed via YouTube
Following the release of his first solo album, Jack White joins forces with director Gary Oldman in a live-streamed NY concert.
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NewsAussie Songs that have Topped the US Billboard Charts
In honour of Gotye's US success, we take a look at all of the Aussie anthems to have commanded the top spot on the Billboard charts.
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NewsAmazon Exchanges Your Old CDs for Store Credit
What are we to do with our now-digitised CD collections? As it turns out, Amazon wants them.
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NewsSplendour in the Grass 2012 Line-Up Announced
Rumours are fun, but knowing which bands are confirmed to play at Australia's premier music festival is even better.
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NewsTupac Resurrected via Hologram at Coachella
A holographic Tupac rapped onstage this past weekend, stunning Coachella audiences.
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NewsThe Black Keys Announce Australian Tour Dates
The Lollapalooza and Coachella headliners are bringing their latest album 'El Camino' to six Aussie locations.
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NewsFlight of the Conchords Announce Australian Tour
The Flight of the Conchords are coming to Australia this winter.
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NewsWatch Radiohead’s Entire Coachella 2012 Set
Radiohead's headline performance had the Coachella crowd entranced, playing many classics along with a lot of stuff from their latest album, The King of Limbs.
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NewsPrince’s Australian Tour Dates Confirmed for May
Prince will return to Australia for the first time in eight years this May.
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NewsSpend Your Lunch Break Clubbing
Lunch Beat events have inspired Stockholm to get up and dance during lunch hour.
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NewsBucking The Trend, Sydney Gets a New Superclub
Going against the trend for opening small bars for people to escape the pokies and nightclubs, The Star opens a new superclub. With pokies.
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NewsWin a Double Pass to ACO Underground
Australia's most talented classical musicians will be swapping the concert hall for the beer-stained stage of New York loft-style venue, The Standard.
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NewsBig Ticket Showdown: Gaga vs. Prince
With two international superstars down under, Concrete Playground is here to help consider your chances of actually getting to see them performing live.
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NewsThe String Orchestra of Brooklyn Embraces Nontraditional Performance
This Brooklyn orchestra produces site-specific musical experiments and collaborations with other New York area musicians.
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NewsThe Five Best Karaoke Bars in Sydney
Check out our pick of the best places for belting out drunken renditions of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' in the wee hours of the morning.
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NewsSpotify Music-Streaming Service to Arrive in Australia
Tap into a huge music library, containing millions of tracks, and share them easily with Spotify.
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