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302 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC 3065 Sun 05 Jul 2026 Woody Samson Rock / Electronic / Pop / Acoustic / Country/Folk / Blues / Soul/Funk / R&B / Indie Baxter’s Open Mic – Kicking off from 6pm. Hosted by Woody Samson. Sign up from 5:30pm. 3 songs (15mins). Sunday Service follow the Open Mic.

Live and Local featuring Lily Hallwell tonight from 9pm.

302 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC 3065 Sat 04 Jul 2026 Rock / Electronic / Pop / Acoustic / Country/Folk / Blues / Soul/Funk / R&B / Indie Woody Samson & Lewis Toms are hitting the main stage @ Baxter’s from 9pm.

15 Gilbert Road, Preston VIC 3072 Wed 08 Jul 2026 Suzie So Blue returns to The Merri Bar (Preston) for the Fireside Sessions! After a great run last year, this cosy crackling music by the fireside returns. Suzie will be bringing her special brand of country noir crooning to every Wednesday in July from 6:30-8:30pm. Backed by her talented band featuring steel guitar and double bass.

But you’re holding a small computer, you’ve got a minute spare to read this, and neither of those is true for most people alive. That’s not a coincidence. It’s the whole story. The average Melburnian adult, ranked by net wealth against the rest of the planet, now sits inside the world’s richest 3%. Picture the species stacked on a hundred-rung ladder. You’re somewhere around the 97th rung, with most of humanity well beneath you. Stay up to date with what’s happening in and around Melbourne here.

Grunge’s snottiest survivors are heading back our way, and Mudhoney are bringing their fuzz-soaked racket to Australia this October. Since forming in 1988, Mudhoney became the flagship act for independent label Sub Pop, stacking up more than 25 official releases across three decades. The Seattle four-piece helped lay the foundation of the grunge sound, and they show little sign of easing off the throttle.

Melbourne’s hard techno faithful, get ready: Emi Baz and Burjoe are joining forces for a brutal backroom takeover at Stamina. Expect everything from punishing hard techno to faster, harder bounce-adjacent sounds across the night, with Stamina’s home inside the Banana Alley Vaults beneath Flinders Street providing the kind of industrial setting that suits the genre.

The Espy is calling on Melbourne bands to throw their name in for a brand new Battle of the Bands competition at its iconic Gershwin Room. Twenty-five bands will be selected to battle it out across five heats, with the winning act walking away with a prize pool serious enough to give any up-and-coming band a genuine leg up. It’s a rare shot at real exposure, a decent payday and a festival slot, all from playing the kind of room plenty of Melbourne bands grew up dreaming about.

Most songs were written before The Veils hit the studio, but decisions were yet to be made about how it would all sound. Finn Andrews and Tom Healy play most of the instruments, with drummer/percussionist Joseph McCallum joining them on occasion. Stay up to date with what’s happening in and around Melbourne here. Aurora was inspired by, and named after, a geomagnetic storm that raged over parts of New Zealand.

Return to Rock Island sends Tim Freedman and co back to the rooms that built The Whitlams, returning to the pubs where two-, three- and four-night residencies forged their live reputation across the decades. It follows the band’s Orchestral ’26 tour, which paired them with eight symphony orchestras in concert halls for some 30,000 people.