"A scale where we can see everyone's faces": Rainbow Disco Club on 17 years of staying intimate

Almost two decades in, Rainbow Disco Club visits Gadigal Land to share its wealth of experience, as part of SURPLUS festival.

Gatekeeping as care: The Door List celebrates five years

Xander Khoury's QTBIPOC-priority party has spent five years staying just visible enough. He tells us how intention, not the algorithm, fills the room.

Garden Grooves brings back Spring Sessions and puts its DJs up a tree

Ngunnawal Land/Canberra's grassroots festival series returns this October, just a few streets from Parliament House.

Inside franck’s biggest Australian run yet

Mixmag ANZ up with the hard bounce pioneer ahead of his all-night takeover at Boorloo/Perth’s The Vault.

Diega announces 'ORTA', a one-day festival at Heide's sculpture park

The brand behind some of Naarm’s best community-oriented New Year’s celebrations sets out with its latest venture.

Finely Tuned’s THE WORKS series returns to Carriageworks for a second season

Finely Tuned's warehouse series comes back for six dates this summer, with Ewan McVicar, Jayda G, ROSSI., Sam Alfred b2b Job Jobse and the already sold-out Australian debut of Pegassi rounding out the bill.

Hopkins Creek announces that 2026 will be the festival's last

The much beloved festival is calling the curtain, coinciding with its 10th birthday this November.

Together Group on shifting Boorloo "from option to origin"

The brand behind The Vault, Merge, Embrace festival and plenty more speaks on what they're trying to build.