As The Triffid Album Of The Year award gets ready to honour the eleventh record to grace the venue's Hero Wall, John 'JC' Collins reflects on the importance of not just venues such as The Triffid, but the impact of awards such as this.

With the playlist Friday Finds: This Week’s Best New Music, The Music’s team gathers the best new songs you need to hear every Friday. Here are our picks released this week, 23 October 2026.

The 'Lily Allen Performs West End Girl' tour kicked off in Brisbane last night, which was the West Londoner's first show in Australia in seven years.

Lily Allen performs her hit album, 'West End Girl,' in its entirety on her Australian tour.

"It’s going to be frenetic, non-stop-action pub-rock heaven.”

Hilary Duff launched into her Australian arena tour in Brisbane, touring in support of her new album, 'luck… or something.'

Hilary Duff performs in Brisbane to an ecstatic crowd of millennials, seeing their idol for the first time in 18 years.

Exclusive 'Shoppie Williams' stores will appear in Melbourne and Sydney next month.

Lily Allen's first tour of the region in seven years was met with an unexpected cancellation in New Zealand.

Enter now for your chance to see him perform in Sydney this November.

"We are going to put together another string of shows in select destinations that allows as many people as possible to get their hands on tickets," Bernard Fanning said.

"To look out and see thousands of faces singing along with us, night after night, is something we'll never take for granted," Jon Bon Jovi said of the group's current live run.