Thirty years after Belle and Sebastian made a masterpiece from the wreckage of their singer’s twenties, they are playing it front to back. Its author talks about the illness that emptied his life, the piano that refilled it, and why music and God arrived together.

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, 4 September 2026.

Brazilian entertainment venues hosting more than 1,000 punters must provide free drinking water and allow attendees to bring their own water containers under the 'Taylor Swift Law.'

The album was recorded during a 2017 show at Selina's, which launched Midnight Oil's The Great Circle reunion tour.

Bob Evans (or Kevin Mitchell, if you prefer) looks back at 'Suburban Songbook', working with Brad Jones in Nashville, and breaking free from creative limits 20 years on.

Hands Like Houses have stepped in to replace In Hearts Wake on the line-up.

Adam Hills surprised Teen Jesus And The Jean Teasers' Jaida Stephenson with a video message from Noel Fielding on 'Spicks And Specks' this week.

It turns out that Tom Hardy’s not the only movie star with a music side hustle, in fact, it's far more common than you might think for actors and actresses to pick up the mic.

The international rock heroes will be joined by homegrown legends You Am I and The Superjesus at Melbourne's Corner Hotel this month.

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After ten years of hosting Easter celebrations at Hamer Hall, the RocKwiz team will, for the first time, commemorate Christmas at the venue.

Three promising, polar-opposite acts - Holly Hebe, Jem Cassar-Daley, and Eli Wan - took to the stage, each definitely earning their titles as Ones To Watch.