Island comes together to celebrate songlines, resilience and modern identity with three generations of musicians
For the first time, some elders on Palm Island have had the chance to perform songs to the community as part of a project involving three generations.
Camel racing twins
Byron Bay twins Lauren and Lili Christian have white sandy beaches for dusty desert tracks to race camels.
NT police commissioner 'deeply sorry' for years of injustice for Indigenous people — as it happened
Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has delivered an apology to the Indigenous community at the Garma Festival, acknowledging there have been times when NT Police did not protect Aboriginal people from harm. Look back on our blog of the day's events.
Shire secures heavy metal and bush doof festivals on same weekend, despite live music industry woes
The South West Metal Fest and the Meliora Art and Lifestyle Festival will descend on one WA shire on the same weekend, but not everyone's happy about the noise.
Pill testing to be available at Schoolies on the Gold Coast
A free, voluntary and confidential pill testing service will be available at schoolies celebrations at Surfers Paradise this year, but only if Labor retains government in October.
triple j hasn't visited Warrnambool in almost 30 years. But now, One Night Stand is coming
Music lovers will flock to Warrnambool for this year's One Night Stand concert in September. But the region's music history goes far deeper.
Pub the hottest ticket in town after wild weather forces remote festival indoors
A celebration of First Nations music wasn't going to be stopped by 150-kilometres-per-hour winds as punters packed out the Ceduna Hotel to be inspired by big-name artists.
Every year, this small German town stages the most extravagant operas. This year, it’s going to be led by an Australian conductor
Trail-blazing conductor Simone Young is set to be the first Australian and first woman to conduct Wagner's epic 15-hour Ring Cycle at its home in Bayreuth, Germany.
'I was born 100 years too late': Col and her vintage wagon ride back in time for Cobb & Co mail delivery
The Queensland woman is training her horses to travel 76-kilometres through dust and dirt to retrace the path of Australia's last horse-drawn mail run.
Veteran performer quits Adelaide Fringe, saying it's now 'financially unviable' for independent artists
The Adelaide Fringe is booming, selling more than a million tickets two years in a row. But some performers are questioning whether the festival has become too big — leaving local shows lost in the crowd.
The peak of the pandemic has long since passed — but live music is still struggling to make itself heard
For decades, a mainstay of the live music scene was the adolescent "rite of passage" of going out to gigs, concerts and band nights in the back rooms of pubs — but Adelaide industry figures say factors including TikTok and the after-effects of the pandemic are continuing to keep young people away.
Like Burning Man but more remote, this is the desert festival Australians are spending big on
Many festivals are shutting down due to increasing costs, but despite fewer numbers this year organisers are confident this one will survive.
Big Red Bash festival kicks off as wet weather batters grounds
Unseasonal rain has turned Australia's most remote music festival, the Big Red Bash, into a mud bath.
Stage set for the 2024 Birdsville Big Red Bash
Thousands of people will attend the Birdsville Big Red Bash, billed as the world's most remote music festival.
Big Red Bash kicks off in Birdsville as sun rises over soggy festival grounds for the second year in a row
Unseasonal mid-winter rain makes for a muddy beginning to Australia's most remote music festival — but these punters wouldn't have it any other way.
NT's fireworks night sees multiple injuries and community shed burnt down
Emergency services say there have been several injuries, including facial burns to a six-month-old and burns to the groin region of a 37-year-old man, during the annual night when people can legally let off fireworks in the Northern Territory.
'Man of the people' Louis Tomlinson smuggles TV into Glastonbury camp
From One Direction's Louis Tomlinson saving the day for football fans to Avril Lavigne clearing out the main stage, here's what you might have missed from the final day of this year's Glastonbury Festival.
Michael J Fox joins Coldplay on guitar during Glastonbury headlining set
From Coldplay's record-breaking headline set to Michael J Fox strumming away on an electric guitar, there was something for everyone.
Australia's biggest cheese festival returns to Melbourne
Thousands headed to Carlton Mould festival returned, celebrating a line-up of local artisan cheesemakers.
For the first time in its history, the UK's biggest music festival has two female headliners
Glastonbury is the biggest festival in the UK, attracting the equivalent of more than two MCGs' worth of people. Here's what's made headlines so far.
Lismore Lantern Parade
Lismore's Lantern Parade is a spectacular feature of the city's cultural calendar.
How soon is too soon to have fun after a town is struck by disaster?
Lismore's annual Lantern Parade has never missed a beat in its 30-year history, despite devastating floods and the COVID pandemic. Now it's one of four locations around the world selected for a global study on revelry and resilience.
This all-female metal band had stones thrown at them. It only made them want to rock harder
Voice of Baceprot are a devoutly Muslim all-female thrash metal band hell-bent on shattering the genre's masculine image and misconceptions about Islam.
Vivid Sydney cancels popular drone show 20 minutes before it was due to start
Organisers announced on social media that the Love Is In The Air drone show would be cancelled on the final night of Vivid due to the weather conditions.
Parisians divided on city's preparedness for Olympic games
While excitement for the Olympics builds, some Parisians argue the event is an expensive extravagance and the city is ill-prepared for it.