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Usher adds extra Melbourne and Sydney dates to 2025 Australian tour

2 days ago | beat.com.au | Frankie Anderson-Byrne

Global R&B superstar Usher is officially returning to Australia in 2025—and fans are wasting no time securing their spot. Following an overwhelming demand for tickets, the multi-platinum, eight-time Grammy Award-winning artist has added two additional shows each in Melbourne and Sydney for his Usher: Past Present Future 2025 Global Tour.
Winter Night Market

2 days ago | beat.com.au | Frankie Anderson-Byrne

The Queen Victoria Winter Night Market is making its grand return, firing up the grills (and the fire pits) for 13 weeks of food, fire and midweek fun. Kicking off Wednesday 4 June and running through to 27 August, this iconic event is bringing the heat to hump day like only Melbourne knows how.
Winter Night Market fires up with even more street eats, live music, roaming performers

2 days ago | beat.com.au | Frankie Anderson-Byrne

The Queen Victoria Winter Night Market is making its grand return, firing up the grills (and the fire pits) for 13 weeks of food, fire and midweek fun. Kicking off Wednesday 4 June and running through to 27 August, this iconic event is bringing the heat to hump day like only Melbourne knows how.
Metro Tunnel set to open this year thanks to $5 Billion public transport blitz

2 days ago | beat.com.au | Frankie Anderson-Byrne

A total of $727 million will be used to operationalise the Metro Tunnel, which is expected to open this year according to an announcement from Victorian premier Jacinta Allan this week. The project, the largest transformation of Melbourne’s rail system since the construction of the City Loop, will introduce new underground tunnels beneath the CBD and five new stations.
The dark side of Melbourne's endless suburbs is now getting international attention Monash takes Melbourne’s urban sprawl toll to the world stage at Milan’s premier design triennale

2 days ago | beat.com.au | Frankie Anderson-Byrne

That’s the burning question the creative brains at Monash University are asking the world, as they get ready to put Australia on blast at one of the most prestigious design events on the planet. Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA) has been named Australia’s official representative at the 24th Triennale Milano International Exhibition—and they’re not pulling any punches with their exhibition, titled Australia: Land Use Inequality.
‘Fuck, I better not die’: Tropical Fuck Storm on mortality, celebrity and the new pope

2 days ago | beat.com.au | Juliette Salom

It underlines their music, surfaces in their songwriting, follows them around the world like night follows day. But as much as the Naarm-born supergroup takes pleasure in throwing caution to the wind, Gareth Liddiard – one of the country’s greatest lyricists and their lead vocalist and guitarist – tells me, “I don’t wanna die.”It’s a throwaway comment offered in the context of having spent the morning at the gym prior to us talking, but he means it.
A dreamy new Brunswick bar is hosting beloved DJs Soju Gang and Polat

2 days ago | beat.com.au | Frankie Anderson-Byrne

Enter The Lebanese Rocket Society, a brand-new venue that’s already looking like a hot contender for your Sunday rotation. They’re wasting no time making a mark with a special intimate Sunday sesh featuring none other than local legends Soju Gang and Polat behind the decks. It’s low-key. It’s high-vibe. It’s everything a music-lover could want on a lazy Sunday arvo.
Popular Melbourne nightclub Xe54 is closing down after seven years

2 days ago | beat.com.au | Frankie Anderson-Byrne

words by staff writer After seven wild, sweaty, euphoric years, the Melbourne nightlife institution is closing the doors on its weekly programming. But don’t go packing away your dancing shoes just yet—the beloved Xe54 isn’t completely gone, just shapeshifting.
Viagra Boys are bringing the Infinite Anxiety Tour to Australia – It’s going to be loud

3 days ago | beat.com.au | Frankie Anderson-Byrne

— and, for the first time ever, heading across the ditch to New Zealand — with the announcement of the Viagra Boys “Infinite Anxiety Tour of 2026”, set to rip through both countries this January.
Move over Amyl and King Giz, Npcede are Melbourne's next big thing

3 days ago | beat.com.au | Lucas Radbourne