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It only took one viral moment for Wisp to cement herself as shoegaze’s new force. Since her breakout viral single ‘Your Face’ racked up over 130M streams, Wisp has gone on to tour with Slowdive and Panchiko, play festivals from Coachella to Camp Flog Gnaw, and earn praise from the New York Times and NPR.

Fresh off the release of her debut album If Not Winter, the 21-year-old Californian artist is bringing her restless, romantic shoegaze down under. Her Sydney and Melbourne shows – alongside her Laneway debut – will be the first chance for Australian fans to experience her immersive sound live.

Six years after her last Laneway appearance, BENEE is finally back – this time with headline shows in Sydney, Melbourne & Torquay. The New Zealand artist behind ‘Supalonely’, ‘Glitter’ and ‘Soaked’ has spent the past few years taking her genre-blurring alt-pop to stages worldwide, touring with Olivia Rodrigo and Tate McRae, and playing festivals across the globe.

Her long-awaited sophomore album Ur An Angel I’m Just Particles is out November 7, led by new singles ‘Off The Rails’ and ‘Cinnamon’. The record shows BENEE at her most vulnerable and inventive yet, weaving sharp storytelling through restless pop production.

Six-time ARIA Award winner and proud Yolŋu artist BakerBoy today announces his long-awaited return to the national stage, with a run of headline tour dates in April and May2026, presented by Handsome Tours, Lunatic Entertainment, Select Music, and triple j. Pre-sale tickets go live at 10 am local time on Thursday, 3 October, with general sale to follow from 10 am on Friday, 4 October. SIGN UP FOR PRE-SALE ACCESS HERE.

The tour follows the announcement of DJANDJAY, Baker Boy’s fearless and emotionally expansive second album, out October 10 via Island Records Australia. If Gela introduced a bright new voice in Australian music, DJANDJAY signals a creative leap – thematically deeper, sonically broader, and unflinchingly personal. Named in honour of both his late grandmother and the Yolŋu spirit guide she shares a name with, the album marks a turning point for BakerBoy as he steps further into his identity, his power, and his global vision.

Across these dates, BakerBoy will showcase material from DJANDJAY, a record shaped by spiritual legacy and personal transformation. Blending ancestral influences with sharp-edged global production, the album folds in Yolŋu Matha, English, and Burarra across a dynamic soundscape that spans hip-hop, punk, gospel, and electronic textures. Singles like ‘PEACEKEEPER’, ‘FREAK OUT’ (feat. Briggs and Haiku Hands), and ‘THICK SKIN’ (feat. Thelma Plum, Emma Donovan, Kee’ahn & Jada Weazel) speak directly to the album’s core: resilience, reclamation, and refusing to be boxed in.

With stops in Mulubinba/Newcastle, Warrane/Sydney, Meanjin/Brisbane, Cullunghutti/Coolangatta, Koornoo/Barwon Heads, Naarm/Melbourne, Gulumoerrgin/Darwin, and Mparntwe/Alice Springs, the DJANDJAY tour promises the full scale of Baker Boy’s vision, featuring a brand new show, created especially for this tour. It’s a fresh production designed to give fans something they haven’t experienced from a BakerBoy show before. He’ll also appear at PerthFestival and WOMADelaide2026, with more to be announced.

Where Gela introduced the artist, DJANDJAY reveals the man: more grounded, more defiant, and more ready than ever.

DJANDJAY by BakerBoy is out Oct 10.

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Incredible artists are ready to bring non-stop beats, thrilling energy, and pure mayhem!

Fit For An Autopsy return to Australia in 2026 with their It Comes For You Tour. The New Jersey heavyweights will be joined by Florida’s Bodysnatcher, rising Australian force Volatile Ways, and Human Warfare’s newest signing Pain Body. Expect a night of crushing riffs, unrelenting energy, and one of the heaviest lineups to hit Australian stages.

Australia, prepare yourselves to Trip the Darkness and embrace the heavy intensity of Italian gothic metal titans LACUNA COIL who today announce their highly-anticipated return to Australia in 2026, with the Sleepless Empire Australian Tour next February also marking the band's first down under headline tour in a decade.

Commencing on Thursday 12 February in Brisbane, LACUNA COIL will weave their way through Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, before closing out on Thursday 19 February in Perth. Armed with a formidable reputation for their shape-shifting take on gothic hues, melodic sorcery and seething ferocity, LACUNA COIL are that rare breed of band who can capture the zeitgeist while balancing gripping authenticity, and their ambitious live show finds them bigger and bolder than ever before.

With over two million album sales worldwide alongside enthralling a dedicated legion of global fans for decades, LACUNA COIL most recently unveiled a brand new album, releasing Sleepless Empire earlier this year. Channeling more experimental territory, Sleepless Empire was praised by KERRANG! upon release, noting “these are Lacuna songs through and through…and its lingering notes of darkness just make you want to play the whole thing again”, with the album also gifting brand new fan-favourites like Never Dawn, I Wish You WereDead and Hosting the Shadow featuring Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe.

A force to be reckoned with both off and on stage, whether roaring out into a festival crowd or captivating in a headline capacity, LACUNA COIL have previously shared stages with the likes of Gojira, Machine Head and In Flames. And few will forget the group’s most recent Australian visit, with LACUNA COIL dubbed “one of the sets of the day” by Music Feeds for their Good Things Festival appearances in 2022, with their show-stopping performances also heavily praised supporting Gojira's Australian headline shows alongside the festival.

Next February, prepare for high octane nights soaked in theatricality and blistering dexterity, with LACUNA COIL guaranteed to leave you spellbound when they hit our shores once more

Tommy Holohan touches down in Eora/Sydney on November 28 for a night of full-throttle chaos at Liberty Hall.

A force on the underground circuit, Holohan’s been disrupting dance floors from sprawling festival stages to sweat-soaked basements. Now, we’re locking in for a high-speed, no-holds-barred ride from start-to-finish.

Tickets just dropped and they won’t last long – you’ve been warned.