Conservative commentator takes to his blog to say the Melbourne indie band are ‘stamping on the ashes of the west’s musical traditions’

Sampa becomes Australian hip-hop’s next great hope, Matt Corby gets spiritual and rocker Dan Kelly on tripping through ‘yuppie times and hippie trails’

Kirin J Callinan’s provocative stage antics and Laura Marling’s candid indie folk are just two items on the festival’s challenging and eclectic line-up

Big Scary get their daggy dance on, Vikki Thorn of the Waifs on her intimate connection to home, and Family Fold proves he never goes out of style

Rae Howell’s improv wilderness, fragility and power meet in chanteuse Katie Noonan and Hau signs to rising hip-hop label House of Beige

From afrobeat maestros to the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Brisbane festival is playing host to international and homegrown musical heroes

Doyenne of folk Joan Baez tours Australia, Jess Ribeiro sings through the pain and new soul from the Joneses of the Blue Mountains

Montaigne’s power ballad packs a punch, former Go-Betweens frontman Robert Forster is back with a new album, and Darwin love from MC Requiem

Gurrumul’s gentle hymn, rapper Sarah Connor’s cutting diatribe, Melbourne indie rockers the Drones take a victory lap and Luna return two decades on

Some of Australia’s finest musicians are performing around the country for the annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture

Gutsy, lyrical rap from Brisbane MC Kenzie Fromwelly, neo-soul artist Dried Spider on electric encounters and Jack Grace’s unorthodox pop

Bathe in the fuzzy guitar of Day Ravies, Frazey Ford’s terrific break-up anthem and the spooky storytelling of The Walking Who

The watery and warped psych-rock of Good Morning, Sans return with their fast, hooky pop and pure punk fury from rockers Grenadiers

Electronic folk and infectious indie straight out of Sydney, art inspired jazz in Melbourne and a timely Fifa protest song from Brisbane’s finest

Drummers without drums, an all-American country visitor, a bit of perky cowbell from Brisbane and a memento of the late great BB King

Fom Vivid Live at the Opera House to Modulations at Carriageworks, Sydney switches on the lights for some musical heavyweights – here’s a taster

Melbourne serves up the musical fruit salad of Broadway Sounds plus new romance from Olympia, and meet Sydney seven-piece, The Venusians

Melbourne sextet’s songs fizz with danger, Brisbane’s Jeremy Neale is back in dreamboat mode and Thundamentals bag a cracking couple of support acts

The oud virtuoso fires off another fast round, Lucinda Hearn mixes found sound and Fremantle’s Koi Child hook up with Kevin Parker of Tale Impala

Jess Cornelius keeps it sweet ahead of her Courtney Barnett support slot, Hiatus Kaiyote covers Gorillaz and Triple J favourite Leon Osborn represents Freo