Browse home-grown musical heroes and top picks from some of our favourite performers with these specially curated playlists.
On 19 June we presented an exclusive online performance of the acclaimed UK theatre show, Love Letters Straight From Your Heart. In this interactive zoom show, audiences paid tribute to the ones they love by sending in a love song dedication. These are the songs from that performance.
The Australian Music Vault celebrates the Australian contemporary music story – past, present and future. Our Australian Music Vault curators have put together some great Australian playlists for your listening pleasure.
Celebrate Vic NAIDOC Week with a playlist of diverse First Nations voices from the place now called Victoria.
Even though we’re apart, let’s listen and dance together. Featuring tracks from Alex Lahey, Alice Ivy, Ball Park Music, Kira Puru and more.
From Tim Minchin to the Teeny Tiny Stevies, get the whole family dancing around the living room with these Aussie music tunes for kids!
Ever thought you’d see Bee Gees and Sneaky Sound System on the same playlist? We have selected some bangers to get you moving. Turn it up loud and dance it off.
Think you know Hip Hop? Check out this curated playlist of the best beats Australia has to offer.
It's loud, it's D.I.Y., it's in your face. See how Aussie punk/new wave music shook the world.
Celebrate our hit makers and behind-the-scenes heroes and their impact on Aussie music. With artists including Daddy Cool, Divinyls to Powderfinger and Deborah Conway.
From homegrown talent to recent Aussie arrivals and globetrotting expats, our music journey knows no bounds. Listen to Split Enz, Sia, Tkay Maidza, Savage Garden, The Easybeats and more.
Innovation, improv and boundless imaginations. We've created a playlist inspired by the trailblazers of Aussie music, including Johnny O’Keefe, Jimmy Little, Wendy Saddington, Russell Morris, Courtney Barnett and Jen Cloher to name a few.
From human and environmental rights to the fight to save live music, music busts down walls and drives progress. Including Archie Roach, Renee Geyer, Midnight Oil and Yothu Yindi plus many more.
An example of responding to the Covid-19 crisis by staying creative and making music. Reuben Lewis improvises a musical solo via livestream, Tariro Mavondo performs words over this solo while hearing it for the first time, then Peter Knight improvises over their parts combined.
Duration: 24 minutes
Original work by Tokyo-based Australian composer/pianist Aaron Choulai. Mythical and deeply groovy, bringing together traditional Japanese court music with jazz and hip hop. Commissioned by Australian Art Orchestra, recorded live at Arts Centre Melbourne.
Duration: 38 minutes
After a mesmerising performance at The Bowl earlier this year, back home in Italy and at the height of their lockdown, Ludovico Einaudi took out his iPhone and recorded this intimate record himself.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes
Ahead of the MTC's upcoming season of Shakespeare’s musical comedy As You Like It, composers Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall took some time out from writing its music to create a playlist for audiences to enjoy as they await the return of live theatre.
Maestro Christian Badea directs Orchestra Victoria and a stellar cast in Graeme Murphy’s beloved production for Opera Australia of Puccini’s last opera.
From Miles Davis to Massive Attack: Principal Violin and ACO Underground Frontwoman Satu Vänskä shares an assortment of what she’s listening to while at home.
