Naarm’s indie rock favourities, The Velvet Club are hitting the road this August for their 4 date Australian tour, in support of their debut album ‘Are You Falling In Love?’. The tour takes the band across the county with shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth before finishing in for a home town show in Melbourne.

Are You Falling In Love? is the bands debut album, and features fan favourites ‘We Don’t Talk’, ‘Blue’ and ‘Anything’. Throughout the record’s 10 tracks, The Velvet Club navigate mental health struggles, relationship breakdowns, friendship, and solitude, fuelled by jangly guitars and hooks that move from bright to melancholic and back again. The Velvet Club’s return to the hazy immediacy and raw, unpolished charm of 2000s indie is what makes this album so familiar, yet refreshing.

The Australian tour will bring the bands iconic, raw and energetic live performance that fans have come to know and love, and promises a mix of new album tracks alongside previous fan favourites.

The Velvet Club 'Are You Falling In Love?' Australian Tour

Blind Acceptance PRESENT: Night of stench and death with TERMINAL FILTH (Crust Filth Stenchcore), AWFUL NOISE (Meanjin Deathgrind), CEREBRAL EROSION (Goregrind), M*U*S*H (Anti-Dbeat Pisscore)

TERMINAL FILTH Live Meanjin

Raising the Roof Volume 03 -

with Vinted Vineer, Lottie McLeod, Chelsea Costar & Exit Guide

and Hosted by Flamingo Blonde!

Our annual fundraiser for Brisbane Youth Service is back in 2026.

Real Feels founder Sam Geddes experienced homelessness and housing insecurity as a teen, which is one small reason why Real Feels Music raises funds for Brisbane Youth Service on the EKKA Public Holiday eve - a date that falls at the end of National Homelessness Week.

Two years in a row, you've helped us raise over $2,500 for vulnerable young people. Lets do it all again.

Raise the roof with us August 11th, and raise money for Brisbane Youth Service!

We are thankful to Social State Entertainment and Black Bear Lodge for their ongoing support of this fundraiser.

Raising the Roof is part of Bris Winter Sessions, proudly sponsored by Brisbane City Council.

100% of ticket proceeds are being donated to Brisbane Youth Service.

To read more about BYS impact, visit https://brisyouth.org/our-impact/

Artwork by Tayla Lauren

Raising The Roof | A Fundraiser for Brisbane Youth Service

For the first time ever, two giants of the Australian roots scene are joining forces to create new music on stage together on a national tour.In what promises to be an electrifying collaboration, this is a show not to be missed for fans of roots, blues virtuoso guitar playing and exquisite song craft.

Jeff Lang has released 32 albums, published one book and won three ARIA awards across a storied career of over 30 decades. He’s delivered show-stopping performances across the globe, including The Dublin Blues Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Quebec City Music Festival, Rajasthan International Folk Festival, Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival, Fuji Rock, Glastonbury, Echo Park China and Ottawa BluesFest and he’s shared the stage with Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Richard Thompson, Bonnie Raitt, Ani Di Franco, Chris Whitley, Albert Collins, Loudon Wainwright III, Greg Brown, John Butler and Bob Geldorf, among many others.

Voted Traditional Blues Artist of the Year 2022, 2024 and 2025 by the Sydney BluesSociety, Dom Turneris guitarist, vocalist, and founding member of the legendary Australian blues group, Backsliders, performing with other acts including The Rural Blues Project, The Turner Brown Band and with US blues legends Phil Wiggins, RL Boyce, and Sunpie Barnes.Dom has toured the Australian and international festival circuit since the 1980s, and has been invited onstage with various guitar legends, most recently in Sydney by Derek Trucks (The Tedeschi Trucks Band) at the State Theatre and The Allman Betts Family Band at Metro Theatre

Jeff Lang & Dom Turner

Whose Party are launching their new song, Scratches in the Glass, at Black Bear Lodge on August 15.

Joined by Jane Street, Undress and regen+.

Come down for a night of local music and dancing.

Whose Party — Scratches in the Glass Single Launch

Some of Brisbane’s local saddest and loudest playing at Black Bear Lodge, Fortitude Valley.

Doors 6pm, music from 6:30-9pm.

Valve (@valveposting) supported by friends:

- tall work (@tallworkz)

- Adorned (@adorned.emo)

- A letter from greenpoint (@aletterfromgreenpoint)

This show is taking place on Aboriginal land, of which we acknowledge and pay respects to our

First Nations people across Australia. We ask you to do the same, and support ongoing

reparations.

Message us @tallworkz if you need alternative entry

Black Bear Lodge | 16th August 2026 | 6-9:30pm | Entry at doors $15| 18+ | No BYO

1/322 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006

Bring earplugs!

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‘Valve / tall work / Adorned / A letter from greenpoint’

Hidden but all digitally connected, using the internet as a sandbox. Tonight, we’ve curated a group of Brisbane’s best emerging underground talent to be present for you IRL.

Proudly hosted by Solariswrld.net, we invite you to the [LAN] party, a place to connect, a place to wire in and tap into what’s been hidden in the digital world.

Headlined by Brisbane’s very own trauma, a Filipino alternative artist who delivers distorted 808s, heavily auto-tuned angsty vocal runs, and high-intensity energy. He recently toured Tokyo with members and associates of the USA-based collective lifeline. He shared the stage with rising stars such as kegøn, Lilniina, EAERAN, Yvnlazy and Yoyou, performing at popular club venues Circus, SALOON and FORESTLIMIT. He boasts versatility sonically, tapping into genres of digicore, rage, hyperpop and emoplugg displayed in his latest project, ‘reVived’, while taking aesthetic inspiration from East Asian multimedia.

He is supported by tenshiesque levi, an artist who emerged from Tokyo’s underground rave scene, spinning at clubs like Circus and for brands like Julius, a path that eventually led them to found Iceblast at Enter Shibuya, with Sabukaru describing levi as “one of the many up-and-coming artists bound to bring an ethereal taste of the city, being a doorway for everyone to experience the best of what Tokyo has to offer.” levi then went on to co-found Absol and play shows across Australia with artists like damon.r and Suzy Sheer, later going on tour with Shabby Club to perform alongside Billionhappy, Sebii and kimj, and Chalky Wong at Vivid Sydney.

They are joined by MISFXTS featuring prii*, cryingonwifi, farlane, packlo and DIQN; a diverse Brisbane-based collective showcasing a wide array of genres, yorohaerte, Brisbane’s #pluggnbne queen bringing authentic lyricism over psychedelic production, bby3nvy, an emerging experimental artist blending rage, electronic and hyperpop; formerly based in Hong Kong, sjukalok, debuting his first live performance in Australia and tommy and rremy with a b2b DJ set pumping out hardstyle, hard techno and EDM.

Tap into the digital world as we proudly welcome you to the [LAN] party, Brisbane's first digicore event.

[LAN] party: FW26

MEGA, also known as @Megaishername, is a British-Ugandan artist whose powerful voice and soul-stirring songwriting connect with listeners on a deeply personal level. With over 100 million, she returns with her latest EP I Am Enough, a bold statement of self-realisation, resilience, and empowerment, which this year earned critical praise, appearing in The Times’ Best New Songs and NPR’s Best New Albums.

Blending soul, pop, and indie with roots in her Ugandan heritage, MEGA has been widely acclaimed by Rolling Stone, The Independent, NME, The Times, Clash Magazine, Galore, and NPR for her soaring vocals, empowering lyrics, and themes of mental resilience.

Named The Standard’s One to Watch for 2026, MEGA is celebrated for electrifying, uplifting, and deeply communal live shows, and for songs that “ delve into identity in a manner which makes your hairs stand on end.” She recently headlined the Meltdown Festival at London’s Southbank Centre, curated by Little Simz, and her single “My Bones” spent six consecutive weeks on the BBC Radio 2 playlist.

With a big voice, a big heart, and songs that explore vulnerability, self-discovery, and empowerment, MEGA is here to make her mark. In the words of LadyGunn magazine she has been “cemented as one of the UK’s most exciting voices.” This is a show you don’t want to miss.

MEGA live

Sydney indie-pop duo Pamela are fast emerging as one of Australia's most exciting new acts, pairing shimmering guitars, infectious hooks and emotionally candid songwriting. Their latest single, "Better Than Before", was praised by The Line of Best Fit as "a joyous hook-led excursion of a breakup". Fresh from international dates and a growing reputation for captivating live performances, Pamela. will release their debut EP, It's Nice To See You Here, on July 10 before embarking on their first Australian headline tour this August. Blending warmth, nostalgia and effortlessly melodic indie-pop, the duo continue to build momentum both at home and abroad.

Pamela. – “IT’S NICE TO SEE YOU HERE” Tour

One of Australia’s most compelling new alternative acts, Newcastle/Mulubinba five-piece horse are hitting the road this July and August for their biggest headline tour to date, celebrating the release of their debut EP, Ask me again next year.

Taking in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, alongside special hometown shows in Newcastle the tour marks an exciting new chapter for the rapidly rising band.

Since emerging in late 2024, horse have built a reputation for emotionally charged songwriting and immersive, intense live performances. Moody, dynamic and deeply atmospheric, their shows pull audiences into a raw and vulnerable sonic world that lingers long after the final note.

With a set that features breakout singles “Blight” and “Headlights”, alongside new EP cuts “gloss” and “Under Your Sun”, the Ask me again next year tour is the first chance to experience new material live, and a rare opportunity to catch one of Australia’s most exciting new bands in intimate rooms before they outgrow them.

horse “Ask me again next year” tour

Heartline is Luke Taylor, Nevenko Sarunic, George Carey and Oscar Taylor. Since the release of their dynamic EP 'Pink Lemonade', Heartline have continuously grown from strength to strength as an exciting and promising act to watch in Australia. The band followed up the EP in 2025 with the standalone single 'Dead Batteries' that has cemented a sound seamlessly combining hard-hitting and complex grooves with soaring melodies and irresistible dance elements.

Pairing their fresh sound with a relentless, energetic and captivating live performance, the four-piece have earned a place touring the country with the likes of The Amity Affliction, Northlane, Dance Gavin Dance, Melrose Avenue and recently Catch Your Breath performing to thousands of people across Australia.

Heartline | Scarlet Threads Tour | Brisbane

PAIN OUT LOUD returns to Black Bear Lodge on Thursday 27 August 2026 for another night of live music featuring Haydzo, Kayjayp and a stacked lineup of local artists

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