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.

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

"There must be something happening," Noel Gallagher said, just two days before Oasis shared a video that's been decoded as a 2027 tour teaser.

Robert Irwin pressed the "confetti button" and danced on stage with Alex Warren.

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

Gippsland’s Ocean Sleeper discuss their new album Peace When I’m Dead, playing their largest headline shows yet and how the band is much bigger than they could have ever imagined.

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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