Get ready for a massive spring session of pure euphoria at one of Sydney’s most iconic waterfront venues, on Saturday, November 7. 3 PM – 11 PM This November, Café…
A new national database of live music venues is taking shape in Australia, and venues are now being asked to add themselves to it. The Australian Music Touring Network (AMTN)…
Four-hour sets, three warehouse venues and a single weekend in March 2027. It has been eight years since Sasha & John Digweed last toured Australia together, and in March 2027…
Across three decades, HARBOURLIFE has remained one of Sydney’s defining summer events. Returning to Fleet Steps at Mrs Macquarie’s Chair on Saturday 21 November, the 2026 edition arrives with a new visual…
Frontier Touring has announced announce that Australia’s own Empire of the Sun, one of the country’s most visionary music projects, will bring the Ask That God: Afterlife Tour to Australia and New Zealand in February and March…
There is a particular kind of audacious idiot that belongs to those who move into the heart of a city, drawn by its energy, its edge, and its reputation, and…
Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) and global nighttime culture consultancy VibeLab have announced a partnership to produce the Nighttime Culture Index (NCI), a new global measure of the vitality of nighttime culture….
All Day I Dream comes back to Australia this southern summer after a ten year absence, with three dates across Byron Bay, Sydney and Melbourne. For the uninitiated, All Day…
A reckoning has just occurred across the land down under as the iconic British record label and mix compilation series Global Underground swept through several states, leaving clubbers craving more….
Australia has always been a scene that punches above its weight and rarely sees itself reflected back at the right scale. For every Melbourne basement that quietly reshapes a sound,…
Bizarro unveils the 2026 lineups for Overtone, Freeform and Mode festivals, taking over iconic sites in Gold Coast/Kombumerri, Melbourne/Naarm and Sydney/Eora this October. Three heavyweights among their respective scenes are…
When the organisers of Return to Rio cancelled their 2024 event in New South Wales, they did so citing a 529% increase in police and medical costs. The figure has…
There is a moment, familiar to anyone who has spent time in a proper listening bar, when the music stops being background and starts being the point. The conversation dips….
Look, I don’t often find myself applauding government press releases (have a read here). They tend to arrive wrapped in the sort of breathless self-congratulation that makes you want to…
Global Underground’s Australia tour begins Friday 5thJune 2026 at Melbourne’s iconic Northcote Social Club, who’ve been presenting the best music to Melbourne since 1894. Then, on Saturday 6thJune, an all-dayer…
There are very few clubs in the world that can genuinely claim to have shaped a city’s musical identity. Chinese Laundry is one of them. Buried beneath the Slip Inn…
There are moments in any music culture when a single achievement reshapes the conversation entirely, when decades of groundwork finally culminate in something that transcends personal triumph and speaks to…
The third city in Decoded Magazine’s international spotlight series Sydney’s relationship with summer runs deeper than most cities. November through March brings long days, harbour swims, and a festival calendar…
I’ve been to enough festivals to know the difference between spectacle and substance. After two decades covering electronic music, the moments that stick aren’t the pyrotechnic displays or the Instagram-worthy…
The man who arguably did more than anyone to cement Australia’s place on the international breaks map, Jesse Desenberg has watched electronic music evolve through multiple cycles, and the latest…
