It seems like Melbourne super-natural-group Bleak Squad are here to stay. The new Melbourne four-piece comprised of true Australian art-rock royalty: Adalita (Magic Dirt), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party), Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Mess Esque) and Marty Brown (Art of Fighting) – are today announcing a run of shows in February and March 2026

Adding to their already announced festival appearances at Perth International Festival, Golden Plains and Riverboats, will be their first headline shows in Brisbane, Sydneyand Canberra, as well as regional centres the Blue Mountains, Ballarat, Castlemaine, Eumundi and Murwillumbah.

Says Brown: “We looked at our calendars for next year and there were only a few weeks we were all in the country and available, so we’ve jam-packed as many shows into them as we could because god knows when the next opportunity to play live together will happen again”

Their debut album Strange Love has been a roaring, out-of-left-field success in 2025. Topping the AIR Chart, making a top 40 ARIA Chart debut, RRR and 3PBS Albums of the Week, and being shortlisted for The Australian Music Prize (to be announced on Thursday).  Plus their first live shows that have left audiences mesmerised, including two shows at the Melbourne Recital Centre and a show in Sydney’s City Recital Hall with Ed Kuepper and Jim White.

Squad goals!

The rumours are true, Ed and Jim will play the US for the very first time this November with exclusive shows in LA and New York. The two shows book-end the debut tour for The Saints ’73-’78 and special guest for both is Mick Harvey – a mega bill! Tickets on sale now.

Say hi to Michael Beach as we welcome him to Feel Presents as booking agents for Australia. The Melbourne based US multi-instrumentalist is a masterful songwriter–he writes songs as seen from 10,000 feet, from 6 feet under–from every angle. For the last decade, Beach has called Melbourne home, a city that knows the power of community–in myriad small venues like The Tote and The Old Bar, in community radio stations like RRR and PBS, in countless independent bands playing all genres every night, untouched by heavy industry. For a living, Beach teaches music (often to folks in those same small bands). He produces, engineers, or performs as a guest musician for friends’ bands (most recently for Tropical Fuck Storm on their forthcoming American musical underground). For years, Beach has been carefully fostering musical connections and with new album Big Black Plume – already an ‘Album of the Week on Triple R’ – we’re here to help capitalise on that. Hear Big Black Plume here and keep and eye out for upcoming shows.

Before a note has even been played and with just two digital singles to their name, the newest Melbourne ‘supper’ group no one has ever heard of have sold out their first two shows. Shows 3&4 on the march too. Tickets via feelpresents.com

The hardest working men in showbiz Ed Kuepper and Jim White reunite for a limited run of shows this October in support of their new album After the Flood. On sale 11am Wed July 27.

“… the results are stunning. Playing tunes as old as The Saints Swing For the Crime and as new as The Ruins (from Kuepper’s 2015 Lost Cities), the album is a brilliant roll of invention” – Byron Coley (The Wire).

Ahead of his just announced Sydney show Four tet has shared his new song “Into Dust (Still Falling).” The track, which samples Mazzy Star’s 1993 song “Into Dust,” is now available both digitally and as a limited-edition 12″ vinyl record via XL. Check it out here.