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CMC Rocks QLD festivalgoers. File photo. Eric Church, Brooks & Dunn and Ashley McBryde will headline CMC Rocks QLD’s 20th-anniversary festival at Willowbank Raceway, with tickets on general sale from Friday, September 25. The country music festival returns to Willowbank Raceway, west of Brisbane in Ipswich, from March 19–21, 2027. Its new bill stretches from
Crowd at the Gympie Music Muster. Photo: Supplied. YELO began with Sunshine Coast bands, venues and gig guides. Now our Queensland pages connect readers with local shows, artists and rooms from Brisbane and the Gold Coast to regional centres, while the Coast remains our home base. YELO across Queensland THE MUSIC MAP JUST GOT BIGGER.
Brisbane has lost some familiar record-store shopfronts in recent years, but the city still has serious places to buy vinyl, from old-school CBD institutions to tiny specialist shops with deep crates and very specific obsessions. Updated September 2026 Brisbane’s record-store map has changed, but the good stuff is still there. Rocking Horse has been selling
The Strokes will return to Brisbane in February 2027. Photo: Supplied. The Strokes are coming back to Brisbane, with the New York band set to play Brisbane Entertainment Centre on February 13, 2027. The show is part of the newly announced Australian leg of the band’s Reality Awaits Global Tour, which will also take in
A free four-day fishing festival with more than $150,000 in prizes is coming to Sandstone Point Hotel this week, with Taxiride and Diesel providing the live-music soundtrack. The inaugural Anaconda Fishing Festival will take over the Moreton Bay venue from September 24-27, combining a major catch-and-release fishing competition with live music, family entertainment, cooking demonstrations
Dear Seattle at Pulse Bar in Maroochydore earlier this month. Photo: Lewis Venz. Finding live music on the Sunshine Coast should not mean checking 12 venue pages, three Facebook events and whatever Instagram happens to show you. The Coast has plenty happening, but it is spread out. Gigs sit across different venue calendars, local artists
Skegss at Alex by the Sea 2026. Photo: Dameeka Middleton for YELO. The Sunshine Coast live music scene is finding new momentum and four local photographers are documenting it all. Marc Roberts, Dameeka Middleton, Matt Warren and Lewis Venz are among the Coast’s most in-demand live music photographers, capturing the artists, venues and audiences driving
Macaulay Culkin will bring Home Alone: A Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin to Brisbane in November. Photo: Kevin Paul / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. Macaulay Culkin is coming to Brisbane on November 24, 2026 for a big-screen screening of Home Alone, followed by a live Q&A at The Fortitude Music Hall. Updated September 2026
Image source: Dameeka Middleton. YELO has launched Music Resources, a set of guides for Queensland musicians, bringing grants, gig advice, festival applications, pay guides and industry contacts into one practical hub. The new resource is designed to make some of the less glamorous parts of being an independent artist easier to navigate, from finding funding
Dave Gleeson of The Screaming Jets performs at The Big Weekend at Blackflag Coolum in 2024. Photo: Dameeka Middleton. The Screaming Jets will headline The Big Weekend when the independent Sunshine Coast music festival makes a surprise return to Blackflag Brewing Coolum on November 28. The fifth-anniversary edition marks a major shift for the homegrown
