There’s no room at the inn next weekend, with all Canberra accommodation booked out and room rates spiking to $500-$700 a night as an expected 45,000 people descend on the capital for the Spilt Milk music festival.
There’s a non-descript, red-brick youth centre in Braddon that’s not particularly remarkable, except for the fact that lead singer of The Church, Steve Kilbey, first found his voice there.
SummerSalt left Canberra’s shores last year but to make up for it, the organisers are bringing us some psychedelic rock in the form of Ocean Alley in March 2026, plus a few of their all-star friends.
You probably haven’t heard of Catherine Bush, but you’d know the famous British singer Kate Bush, and her first cousin happens to live in suburban Canberra with a box-full of personal letters and photos from “Cathy”.
Best known for their iconic hit Under the Milky Way, featured everywhere from the 2001 Donnie Darko film to AFL Grand Finals and car ads, The Church will return to Canberra later this year.
National youth broadcaster Triple J has named 1980s power ballad Never Tear Us Apart by INXS as Australia's favourite song in its special edition poll.
In a joke to Oasis fans during a reunion gig in Manchester, Liam Gallagher took a stab at Coldplay over the band's live kiss-cam incident that went viral.
It doesn't get more Australian than interviewing the Prime Minister Anthony ‘Albo’ Albanese at a Jimmy ‘Barnesy’ Barnes concert in the nation’s capital.
There are artists who set their sights on ticket and album sales, five-star reviews or awards as the benchmark for a successful tour. However, Emmy-winning and multi-Grammy-nominated recording artist Toni Childs appears more aligned with a different metric of success.
It’s not just music being created at the National Folk Festival (NFF) in Canberra, but a mural was also put together — and anyone could join in.
Attendees at the festival were encouraged...
Visitors to the (minimum to maximum security) Alexander Maconochie Centre don’t usually bring guitars, but Nick Lee-Murphy passes through the metal detector and X-ray checkpoint with nothing but an acoustic Martin guitar and a songbook.
Statistically, the chance of all employees in one workplace being musical is slim, but Better Music in Phillip is a statistical anomaly with almost all 47 staffers being musicians – except the accountant.
The last surviving free “traditional” folk festival in Australia lies just 90 minutes from Canberra, with the Numeralla Folk Festival quietly puttering along since 1974.
In 2024, Emily Wurramara made Australian music history by becoming the first Indigenous woman to win the best adult contemporary album at the ARIA Awards.
Multi-ARIA-Award-winning Australian singer-songwriter Sarah Blasko will kick off her extended I Just Need to Conquer This Mountain “regional” tour in Canberra in 2025.
