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 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
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
June 26, 2026By yelomag
Sunshine Coast alt-pop artist and Sunshine Coast Music Awards finalist Cora has released her debut EP, “Be That Girl”. The six-track EP brings together recent singles “(boy)cott”, “Be That Girl” and “Gotta Be Done”, alongside three previously unreleased songs. Its focus track, “She’s So Pretty”, arrives with an official video and was co-written and produced
June 24, 2026By yelomag
Festival-goers at Rolling Sets. Photo: Mitch Lowe, supplied. If The Beach Boys were allowed to invent “Kokomo”, YELO is officially claiming the stretch between the Sunshine Coast and Byron Bay as the ‘Bermuda Bahama Banana Republic Triangle’. It is not a recognised region, but it does contain an unreasonable number of festivals. From the Sunshine
June 22, 2026By yelomag
Eumundi School of Music music director Jimmy Halliday and keys teacher Kate Gadenne-Parsons with students from the 2026 program at Caplick Park. Photo: Supplied. Eumundi School of Music is marking 10 years of mentoring young musicians across the Sunshine Coast with more than 300 students taking part in the program since it began. The milestone
June 16, 2026By yelomag
YELO has compiled three years of songs featured on its weekly radio segment, including hundreds of songs from Sunshine Coast and Queensland artists. Every Tuesday at 10am, YELO founder Penny Brand joins broadcaster and longtime music advocate Sarah Howells to introduce two Queensland releases and discuss upcoming shows. “There’s always more good music coming out
June 16, 2026By yelomag
Australian Crawl’s James Reyne, Simon Binks and David Reyne will reunite alongside Men At Work at Sandstone Point. Photo: Facebook. Australian Crawl will reunite on stage for the first time in more than 40 years alongside Men At Work at Sandstone Point Hotel on October 18. James Reyne, Simon Binks and David Reyne will lead

