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A Huge 90s R&B Throwback Tour Is Bringing Young MC, Montell Jordan and Bobby Brown Down Under
Bring That Beat Back will hit stages in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Auckland for a nostalgia-packed music party.
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Stop Right Now, Because The Spice Girls Look Set to Tour Australia in 2020
You'll be able to spice up your life in February, according to Mel B.
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Legendary Composer Hans Zimmer Is Coming to Australia to Play All of His Film Scores Live
Hear 'The Lion King', 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Blue Planet II' performed by a live orchestra and a full band.
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Brockhampton to Headline One-Day, One-Stage Festival FOMO in 2020
It's returning to Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne this summer.
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Psychedelic Rock Legends The Flaming Lips Are Coming to Australia
Expect confetti canons, elaborate costumes and the highly acclaimed 'The Soft Bulletin' album in full — in both Sydney and Melbourne.
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Thornbury Social Club Is Northside's Huge New Multi-Room Music Venue in an Old Warehouse
Prepare to party until 5am in an old ballroom — and on squash courts — with some of the world's best DJs.
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Twelve 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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Must-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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Eight 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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Twelve 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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Twelve 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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Twelve 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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Thirteen 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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Spectacular 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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Eurovision 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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Twelve 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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Pioneering Electro Duo The Chemical Brothers Is Coming to Australia
It'll bring its new psychedelic live show to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane — with The Avalanches in tow.
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Cherry Bar Is Reopening Its Doors on AC/DC Lane — Temporarily
After closing in March to move to a new location, the famed bar is throwing open its original doors for a limited time.
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Five Must-See Music Sights to Explore in the UK
Tell your mum you love her and let her know you're off to find your inner John Lennon.
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Childish Gambino Has Announced an Australian Tour
After cancelling his 2018 tour, the US hip hop star has confirmed his return to Sydney, Melbourne and Perth this July.
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A Documentary About Beyoncé's Epic 2018 Coachella Set Will Hit Netflix Next Week
And you can watch the trailer right now.
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Legendary Rock Band Queen Is Touring Australia in 2020
Original members Brian May and Roger Taylor are once again teaming up with long-time frontman Adam Lambert.
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Counterweight 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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Splendour in the Grass Announces 2019 Lineup Led by Childish Gambino, Chance the Rapper and Tame Impala
Dust off your gumboots — it's a big one.
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The Drop Festival Returns for 2019 to Tour the Country's Most Iconic Surf Spots
The boutique festival will follow the World Surf League Championships across the country, headlined by Client Liaison, Angus and Julia Stone and Hockey Dad.
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We're Giving Away An Epic Trip To Denver, Colorado
Enjoy five days of eats, live music and adventure in the Rocky Mountains — on us.
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Groovin' The Moo Canberra Will Host Australia's Second Pill-Testing Trial
It follows the success of a trial at the same festival last year, which found a bunch of potentially lethal additives in festivalgoers' drugs.
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Bluesfest Told It Has "Nothing to Worry About" Under New NSW Music Festival Policies
The festival has been deemed "low risk" despite the government's guidelines suggesting otherwise.
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Bluesfest Is Likely to Leave NSW After 30 Years of Successful Festivals in Byron Bay
Festival Director Peter Noble says the major event may have to relocate because of the NSW Government's strict new policies on music festivals.
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BEAST 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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Event
A 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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Sweet 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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Event
The 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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Horizon — 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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Scandinavian 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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Disaronno 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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Bastille 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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Queen 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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The Promised Land
Thursday, June 20 - Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
More than a decade after 'A Royal Affair', Mads Mikkelsen and filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel have made another grand and gripping drama set in Denmark's past.
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News
Elton John Is Bringing His Huge Farewell Tour Down Under
He'll play his last-ever Australian and New Zealand shows across late 2019 and early 2020.
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News
Groovin the Moo Has Announced Its 2019 Lineup
GTM returns to regional Australia with Coolio, Hilltop Hoods, Billie Eilish and a whole lot of local talent.
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News
Legendary Rock Den Cherry Bar Is Closing Its Doors on AC/DC Lane
The famed bar is shutting up shop, but its sticky carpet legacy is set to live on somewhere new.
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Melbourne Politicians Have Called on the Victorian Government to Allow Pill Testing
And the City of Port Phillip Council has offered (again) to play host to a state-first pill testing trial
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News
A Masquerade Party with Acrobats and House Music Is Coming to Sydney and Melbourne
This April, German DJ Claptone's mysterious, multi-sensory show will make its third Melbourne appearance and its Sydney debut
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News
All Sorts Is Melbourne's New Daytime Beach Party from the Organisers of Beyond The Valley
The inclusive summer festival features cabaret, drag and a music lineup headlined by Seth Troxler.
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News
Tame Impala and Childish Gambino Lead Coachella's Huge 2019 Lineup
Start saving for that airfare.
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The 'Godfather of Punk' Iggy Pop Is Coming to Australia
He'll perform (probably shirtless) in Sydney, Melbourne and Byron in April 2019.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers Announce Their First Aussie Headline Tour in Over a Decade
Next year, they'll be singing songs to you (but probably not beneath marquees).
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News
Future to Headline Huge Hip Hop Festival Rolling Loud's First-Ever Australian Event
It's billed as the world's biggest hip hop festival — and it's coming to Sydney next year.
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Guide
The Best Gigs and Parties Happening at Melbourne Music Week 2018
Be serenaded in the sky, dance in AC/DC Lane and roller skate to live disco — and see many gigs in-between.
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News
The World's Biggest Hip Hop Festival, Rolling Loud, Is Coming to Australia for the First Time This Summer
If past years are anything to go by, expect a downright massive lineup.
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News
King Street's New Chandelier-Filled Live Music Venue Is Now Open
A former Melbourne strip club has been reincarnated as a sprawling live music venue, now dubbed Geddes Lane Ballroom.
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News
The One and Only Kylie Minogue Is Bringing Her 'Golden' Tour to Australia
The Aussie pop icon will be spinning around the country in March.
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Guide
All the Best Music Festivals Happening in Melbourne and Around Victoria This Summer
From camping festivals with with farm feels to a one-day inner city dance parties, this list has something for every musical inclination (and intensity).
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News
Nelly and Craig David Are Hitting a Bunch of Wineries for Another Nostalgic R&B Tour This Summer
They'll be joined by All Saints and Amerie for the Australian tour of RNB Vine Days.
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News
Childish Gambino Has Cancelled His Upcoming Australian Tour
Promoter Live Nation is working to reschedule the US hip hop star's Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Canberra dates.
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Pitch Music & Arts Festival Returns with a Massive 2019 Lineup
The multi-day Victorian camping festival is back with 45 musical acts, light installations and immersive art.
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Melbourne Zoo Has Unveiled Its Full 2019 Twilight Gig Program
Summer is officially around the corner (and so is Cat Power, Marlon Williams and The Internet).
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Australia's Huge National R&B Tour Is Getting a Star-Studded After Party
Lil Jon, Estelle, Fatman Scoop and Ginuwine will all do double duty after the main shows.
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Golden Plains Has Just Announced Its Star-Studded 2019 Lineup
With Beach House, The Internet, Four Tet and Marlon Williams just some of the big names on the bill.
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Nick Cave Is Heading on an Intimate Solo Tour of Australia
This new show will see the Aussie music legend blend candid conversation, storytelling and piano solos.
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