March 25, 2026By yelomag
Photo: Kae Tempest is part of a huge Open Season 2026 program. Via Facebook. Brisbane is often treated as the city between other music capitals. Open Season 2026 makes that feel increasingly out of date. With more than 100 artists and special events woven through the city across winter, the program feels bigger than a
March 23, 2026By yelomag
Where We Belong Festival will return to Redcliffe on Saturday, June 27, with Aussie rock legends The Screaming Jets and Pricey leading the bill. The all-day event will run from 10am to 10pm, with tickets from $50 and free entry for kids under 12. Photos: The Screaming Jets by Marc Roberts for YELO. Pricey by
January 10, 2026By yelomag
Laneway Festival has teased a potential lineup clue with a cryptic neon blue post.
December 8, 2025By Penny Brand
Photo by Gerry Nicholls for BLUNT: Garbage at Good Things Festival in Brisbane on Sunday where singer Shirley Manson eventually apologised for her beach ball tirade. Imagine being an international rockstar and telling a mosh-pit filled with thousands of your Australian fans in the heat of summer that you “HATE THE BEACH!” And that you also
November 28, 2025By yelomag
The Sunshine Coast’s biggest pint-sized band Wave Raiders are set to debut at Good Things Festival on December 7 in Brisbane. The teenage rockstars will make their festival debut on the Garage Band Stage at the Brisbane Showgrounds with some new music. They are also playing this weekend at Bluff Fest at Alexandra Headland. Pictured:
August 14, 2025By yelomag
It’s the biggest music event of its kind in the southern hemisphere, and BIGSOUND is set to take over Brisbane for its 24th year – from September 2-5 – with Goolwal Goolwal kicking things off. What is Goolwal Goolwal? Goolwal Goolwal is the First Nations representation of the monolithic music event, which brings an industry
August 12, 2025By yelomag
US heavy-metal giants TOOL will headline Good Things Festival (16+) in December, it has been announced. The alternate music festival – which last year brought Korn, Smashing Pumpkin’s Billy Corgan and Violent Femmes to Australia – returns to Melbourne on December 5, Sydney on December 6, and Brisbane on December 7. Joining them, in an
March 5, 2025By yelomag
Brisbane’s New Bloom Fest and the Drain and One Step Closer sideshow at Kings Beach Tavern will be cancelled this weekend. New Bloom Fest – headlined by English rock band Basement – was scheduled for Saturday at Fortitude Music Hall. While Drain and One Step Closer were due to play at Caloundra, on the Sunshine
January 22, 2025By yelomag
KNOTFEST, the destination festival brand curated by SLIPKNOT, is returning to Australia this year. And today they announce a horde of headline sideshows from some of the artists on the festival lineup. In addition to their entirely sold out Adelaide headline sideshow, SLIPKNOT will headline in Auckland on March 11, while A DAY TO REMEMBER are set to perform a
December 9, 2024By yelomag
Photos: Dameeka Middleton Good Things Festival saw international acts Korn, Violent Femmes, L7, Billy Corgan and JET play to 30,000 alternative music-loving revellers at Brisbane’s RNA Showgrounds on Sunday. Despite extreme heat punishing punters at almost 40 degrees in the City, punters made good use of the portable showers and drink stations. Read about why music festivals are held in summer in

