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NewsSpotify Is Now Creating Personalised Playlists for Pets
Have a pet iguana or hamster? It'll make a playlist for them, too.
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NewsFootscray's Historic Wool Store Will Be Revived Once Again for a Series of Big Parties in 2020
They'll be thrown by the team behind Beyond the Valley, Grapevine Gathering, Ability Fest and Pitch Music & Arts Festival.
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NewsVictoria's Rainbow Serpent Has Cancelled Its January Music Festival Because of the Bushfires
Instead, it's hosting a one-day party in the CBD and a multi-day festival over Easter.
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NewsFrank Ocean, Rage Against the Machine and Travis Scott Headline Coachella's Massive 2020 Lineup
Start saving for that airfare.
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NewsFalls Festival Artists Halsey and Yungblud Have Both Announced Last-Minute Melbourne Shows
And the cost of entry to both shows will be donated to volunteer firefighting services.
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NewsLorne's Falls Festival Has Been Cancelled Because of Extreme and Hazardous Weather
"We simply cannot put anyone's life at risk."
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month
Spend your couch time watching the delicious return of 'The Bear', Glen Powell playing a fake hitman and Lily Gladstone's latest excellent performance.
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GuideMust-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far
Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024's standout shows that you need to see.
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NewsEight New Movies You Can Watch Right Now That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with the Sydney-shot action antics of 'The Fall Guy', a heartbreaking Oscar-nominated animated gem and the love-triangle games of 'Challengers'.
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GuideTwelve of the Best RISING 2024 Events That Will Help You Get Out of the House This Winter
RISING 2024's most-exciting events include an absurdist dinner party, a massive festival within the festival and a heap of different one-off parties.
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NewsTwelve Movies to Put on Your Must-See List at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival
Whether you're keen on a dose of weirdness with your SFF sessions, to embrace a Sydney icon or to see award-winning flicks, there's something for you among these titles.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in May
Spend your couch time watching a documentary about Jim Henson, an Elisabeth Moss-led spy thriller and the new season of an Aussie rom-com sitcom.
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NewsThirteen New Movies You Can Watch in May That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with Kirsten Dunst as a war photographer in a divided America, Dev Patel directing himself in an action-packed revenge thriller and Kristen Stewart turning heartthrob.
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GuideSpectacular Autumn Events For Culture Vultures Seeking Their Next Fix
Make sure you add these must-do events to your Sydney culture calendar.
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NewsEurovision Alert: Here's When and Where 2024's Song Contest Is Unleashing Its Europop Marvels
Electric Fields are representing Australia with 'One Milkali (One Blood)', which features the language Yankunytjatjara from the Anangu peoples.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in April
Spend your couch time watching Andrew Scott step into Tom Ripley's shoes, a shattering docuseries about Nickelodeon's kids TV hits and Colin Farrell as a PI.
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GuideSeven Summer Festivals in Melbourne That Are Perfect For Big-Group Hangs
Fire up the group chat, it's festival season.
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NewsSeven Bluesfest Sideshows to Catch in 2020 If You Can't Swing a Trip to Byron
Stop the FOMO from settling in by nabbing tickets to some of these top sideshows in your city.
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NewsFive Experiences You Can Have in Melbourne This Summer That'll Make You a More Interesting Human
Level up your party chat game by attending one of these left-of-centre summer happenings.
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NewsThe Pussycat Dolls, Steps and Smash Mouth Are Heading Down Under for a Huge Throwback Pop Tour
All those Saturday mornings you spent watching 'Video Hits' are about to come in handy.
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NewsThe Drop Festival Returns for 2020 to Tour the Country's Most Iconic Surf Spots
The boutique festival will once again follow the World Surf League Championships across the country, headlined by The Presets and Boy & Bear.
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GuideMelbourne Summer Gigs and Parties That You Won't Want to Miss Out On This Year
From large-scale dance music festivals to a good old-fashioned New Year’s Day boogie, these music events will get you dancing.
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ShopCounterweight Vinyl & Espresso
32 Chambers Street, Footscray
Browse secondhand vinyl — the specialty is classic dance and bass — or sit down for a coffee and pastry.
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NewsLegendary Melbourne Venue Cherry Bar Will Reopen Before the End of the Year
The famed Melbourne bar has finally announced its new digs — less than 500 metres down the road in the recently vacated space of long-standing club Boney.
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NewsLizzo Has Just Announced Solo Shows in Sydney and Melbourne
The rapper will also be headlining FOMO, as part of her first Australian visit.
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GuideSix Gigs and Parties You Shouldn't Miss During Melbourne Music Week 2019
See a set in the sky, watch one of Melbourne's public art pieces become a sound work and party in the depths of Hamer Hall.
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NewsSoutheast Queensland's New Sandtunes Music Festival Has Been Cancelled
It was set to feature Travis Scott, Logic, Chvrches and Carly Rae Jepsen.
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NewsThe Newly Reunited My Chemical Romance Is Heading to Australia for Download Festival 2020
Grab your eyeliner and prepare to relive your teenage emo years.
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NewsShaggy and Sean Paul Are Heading on a Boombastic and Nostalgic Tour of Australia
The two 90s and 00s stars are heading to Sydney, Melbourne and Perth this summer.
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EventInner-West Sessions
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Misfits Bar, Footscray
This monthly event series champions DJs, artists and food vendors from Melbourne's vibrant western suburbs.
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EventBEAST Meat Masters
Monday, July 1 - Saturday, November 30, 2024
Beast City, Melbourne
Everything served at BEAST's Meat Masters takeover series is heavy, meaty and heartburn-inducing. Bring on the food coma.
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EventA Quiet Place: Day One
Thursday, June 27 - Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Various cinemas in Melbourne
The always-excellent Lupita Nyong'o and 'Pig' writer/director Michael Sarnoski take this hit horror franchise back to the alien invasion's beginning in a thoughtful Big Apple-set spinoff.
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EventSweet Home Dog-abama Fourth of July Party at Moon Dog Wild West
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Moon Dog Wild West, Footscray
Moon Dog Wild West's first-ever Fourth of July party comes with live music, food and drink deals, and an all-American hot dog-eating competition.
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EventThe Finders Keepers Autumn/Winter Market
Friday, July 12 - Sunday, July 14, 2024
Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton
Support the next wave of independent artisans at this three-day art and design market that features over 270 makers, foodies and designers.
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EventHorizon — Bangarra Dance Theatre
Wednesday, August 28 - Saturday, September 7, 2024
Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne
The iconic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performing arts company's first mainstage cross-cultural collaboration tells tales from across Oceania.
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EventScandinavian Film Festival
Friday, July 19 - Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
Whether you're after the latest 'Department Q' mystery or a documentary about the Norwegian wilderness, this film festival has something for you.
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EventDisaronno at Palace Cinemas in Melbourne
Monday, May 27 - Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Various Melbourne venues, Melbourne
Where to taste an authentic amaretto sour across Melbourne.
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EventBastille Day
Saturday, July 13 - Sunday, July 14, 2024
Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
Queen Victoria Market will be filled with buttery pastries, cooking masterclasses, live music and more to celebrate France's national day.
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EventQueen Victoria Market's Australian Sake Festival
Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21, 2024
Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
Take your pick from more than 200 different sakes at the Australian Sake Festival, coming to Queen Vic Market this winter.
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NewsMelbourne Zoo Twilights Has Announced Its Full 2020 Gig Program
Summer is officially around the corner (and so are Icehouse, 10cc and Randy Newman).
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NewsWoodford Folk Festival Has Announced Its Huge 2019–20 Lineup
Southeast Queensland's annual end-of-year festival is back for its 34th year, with Amanda Palmer, Lior, Horrorshow and The Herd on the bill.
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NewsPlans to Host a Series of Big Live Music Events at This Thornbury Sports Club Have Been Put on Hold
The operators have locked horns with local council over permits and licences.
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NewsMelbourne Music Week Is Bringing Back Its Glowing Rubik's Cube-Like Venue for Its Tenth Festival
It's part of the ten-day program that will see 70 aural gigs, parties and talks take over the city.
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NewsCharli XCX and Earl Sweatshirt Headline Laneway Festival's Huge 2020 Lineup
Raise a plastic cup to the middle of summer with these big names.
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NewsThe Backstreet Boys Are Coming to Australia for the Tour of Your Teenage Dreams
Backstreet's back, alright.
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NewsSoutheast Queensland Is Getting a New Waterside Reggae Festival Headlined by Shaggy and Sean Paul
New Zealand's One Love Festival is making its Australian debut on the Gold Coast in 2020.
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NewsBrisbane's Iconic XXXX Brewery Is Hosting Its First-Ever Music Festival
Party inside the home of the Milton Mango with five Aussie acts and lots of brews.
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NewsSolange Is Coming Back to Sydney
She's returning to Australia to perform her new album 'When I Get Home' at the Sydney Opera House in January 2020.
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NewsMeredith Music Festival Announces Another Killer Lineup for 2019
Aunty is gifting us with sets spanning German electro, 80s dance, post-punk and everything in-between for her 29th year.
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NewsPaul Kelly Is Bringing Back His Making Gravy Tour for a Third Year
This time, he'll be joined on stage by Courtney Barnett, Kate Miller-Heidke and Marlon Williams.
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NewsPatti Smith, Dave Matthews Band and Crowded House Top Bluesfest's First 2020 Announcement
Time to start making Easter long weekend plans (yes, already).
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NewsThe Internationally Renowned 'Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience' Is Coming to Australia
Relive dramatic moments from all eight seasons of the HBO show with a live orchestra, giant screens and medieval banquets.
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NewsJanet Jackson Is Headlining the National R&B Throwback Tour of Your Teenage Dreams
She'll be joined by The Black Eyed Peas, 50 Cent, Jason Derulo and more — yes, all in one night.
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NewsFyre Festival's Super-Dedicated Producer Andy King Is Heading Down Under to Chat at BIGSOUND
He'll discuss events, water bottles and going above and beyond for your team.
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Falls Festival Has Dropped a Killer 2019 Lineup Featuring Halsey and Vampire Weekend
Kick off 2020 with these big local and international acts.
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NewsTyler, The Creator Is Coming to Melbourne for Beyond the Valley 2019
He'll be joined by Rüfüs Du Sol, Hayden James and more at the NYE camping festival.
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NewsBIGSOUND Has Dropped Its Entire 2019 Lineup, Featuring 147 Artists Across 18 Venues
Four days of huge tunes will take over Brisbane is September.
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NewsAustralia's Next Big Music Festival Will Arrive This Summer with Calvin Harris and Armin van Buuren
From some of the minds behind Splendour, Stereosonic and Falls, Festival X is set to tour Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this summer.
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News
Australia Is Getting a New Beachside Music Festival Headlined by Travis Scott, Logic and Chvrches
Sandtunes is happening on the Gold Coast this November, and also features Juice WRLD, Carly Rae Jepsen and Sampa the Great.
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NewsThe ABC's Australian Live Music Show 'The Set' Is Returning for Another Gig-Filled Season
After its first hit season in 2018, the show returns to screens next month.
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Cherry Bar Is Permanently Closing Its Doors on AC/DC Lane
The famed bar is closing its original doors and moving to a yet-to-be-announced new Melbourne location.
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NewsBIGSOUND Has Announced Its First 76 Acts for 2019
The massive four-day live music event returns to Brisbane in September.
