July 22, 2026By Penny Brand
WHIPLASSH and VERATIE perform at Blackflag Brewing Mooloolaba. Photos: Penny Brand. From existential crises and teenage pressure to deliberately imperfect recordings, the songs reaching YELO’s weekly ABC Sunshine Coast segment reveal a local scene that is becoming harder to define, and far more interesting. The Coast has long had a strong folk and indie identity,
July 20, 2026By Penny Brand
The Jungle Giants play Blackflag Brewing Coolum with The Tullamarines and Tear Drive on August 21. Photo: Meg Siejka. With The Jungle Giants and JET on the way, a production brewery in Coolum’s industrial estate is emerging as one of the Sunshine Coast’s most important live music rooms. Known as The Compound, Blackflag Brewing Coolum
July 19, 2026By Penny Brand
The Meanies, with frontman Link Meanie second from left. Photo: Jo Forster. Australian pop-punk favourites The Meanies are heading to South East Queensland with Dad Fight armed with a new split seven-inch and more than three decades of stories. The rare national run includes shows with Spiderbait in Adelaide and Canberra, before the Melbourne punk
July 14, 2026By Penny Brand
A packed crowd fills Blackflag Mooloolaba during The Drop Beers at Punk Piss Up earlier this month. Photo: Lewis Venz. You could walk straight past it if you didn’t know it was there. But a back-alley taphouse in Mooloolaba is filling up with free live music, and people are noticing. Penny Brand writes. Reached by
July 14, 2026By Marc Roberts
Deafheaven’s frontman launches into the set beneath a wall of stage lights. Photo: Marc Roberts. Words and photos by Marc Roberts Genre-defying heavyweights Deafheaven moved between black-metal chaos and shimmering calm in Brisbane on Sunday, with SPY and Peace Ritual setting a punishing pace. Deafheaven have always been a difficult band to place. Black metal,
July 11, 2026By Penny Brand
One finger on record, one ear on Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 and absolutely no patience for anyone talking over the intro. Three decades later, the cassette player is gone, but the urge to catch songs, keep them and pass them around has never left. Penny Brand writes. Imagine this. It is 1993. School is
July 4, 2026By yelomag
Singer and loop performer Ino will make his Peregian Beach Hotel debut on July 31 after recently relocating to the Sunshine Coast. A familiar name across the Northern Rivers circuit, the New Zealand-born artist has spent more than a decade playing venues around Byron Bay and Ballina. Also known as Ino Pio, he builds his
July 2, 2026By yelomag
Photo: Rob Comiskey. Supplied. TAB betting facilities have been removed from five Comiskey Group hotels after the company refused to sign a new five-year agreement with Tabcorp. The 20-year partnership ended on July 1 after the previous agreement expired on June 30. Comiskey Group said the proposed new contract included higher weekly venue fees, reduced
July 2, 2026By yelomag
After months of silence and speculation, a new collaboration between Raw Ordio and festival founder Mark Pico has sent the local pineapple radar twitching. Raw Ordio may have just dropped the tiniest Big Pineapple Festival Easter egg. The Sunshine Coast electronic act announced its new single, “Far Away”, featuring festival founder and director Mark Pico,
June 26, 2026By yelomag
Karma Police will launch their debut EP, Pale and Blue, at Black Box Theatre in Nambour on August 15. Photo: Warwick Gow. Sunshine Coast alt-rock band Karma Police is already 50 per cent sold for its debut EP launch at Black Box Theatre on August 15. The strong ticket sales come after a packed Nambour

