Beat Magazine

Running across Melbourne from 27 May to 8 June, RISING 2026 lands with characteristic ambition, filling arts centres, cathedrals, libraries, community halls and shopping centres with a program that ranges from the deeply ceremonial to the outright bizarre.

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to dive in, that moment is now.

Composed of of Rowland S. Howard and Ian “Ollie” Olsen on vocals and guitar, Janine Hall on bass and Jeffrey Wegener on drums, the band made an explosive entrance into the Australian music scene. Their presence has been paradoxical, fleeting yet enduring: disbanding only a year after forming. Like a bolt of lightning that arrives before its thunder, their sound is raw and cha...

Australia, get ready to dance under the stars. The Ministry of Sound Summer Dance Festival is back in 2026 with its biggest and most ambitious tour yet, transforming the country’s most picturesque parklands and gardens into open-air dancefloors. Headlined by the breathtaking CLASSICAL show performed by the Ministry of Sound Orchestra, this is dance music reimagined...

Seun Kuti doesn’t just believe revolution is possible. He insists on it.

Kuti, a saxophonist and vocalist, is the youngest son of the late Nigerian Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti. He continues to perform with his dad’s former band, Egypt 80, which he joined when he was just nine years old.

Tantra is hitting Melbourne for the first time, and the city’s been waiting over a decade for it.

Taste of Love Tantra Festival Melbourne is arriving in the city for the very first time this June, and if you’ve been quietly curious about embodiment, conscious connection, or just genuine human interaction that doesn’t involve a screen, this one’s for you.

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