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Your guide to live music and nightlife in Sydney

Music

The best music venues in Sydney

Whether it's a big name international or a local indie band, Sydney's got a banging bunch of venues ready to house them.

Gay and lesbian

The best queer-friendly parties

Dance in these glitter-daubed safe spaces.

Nightlife

The best clubs in Sydney

Sydney loves to party, here's where to look.

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The best bars and pubs in Sydney for live music

Gigs still thrive in Sydney's smaller drinking holes.

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The best jazz clubs in Sydney

The syncopated beat goes on.

Upcoming gigs and parties

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La bohème

Gale Edwards' visually magnificent production of Puccini's bohemian love story returns for its sixth year

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Commune Our Hood

Start the night with jazzercise and drag yoga, then finish with a food truck feast

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Salome review

Strauss's daring and dastardly opera makes its return to the Opera House

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West Side Story on Sydney Harbour review

Leonard Bernstein's masterpiece is the first musical staged on Opera Australia's grand harbour-side stage

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Latest music news

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We got on the bluegrass bandwagon at this O Brother, Where Art Thou? tribute concert

If you're after an evening of fiddle-picking, washboard-thrumming, double bass-pumping bluegrass music, you don’t really need to have seen the Coen Brothers’...

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Death Cab for Cutie’s biggest draw was nostalgia – but was it enough?

It’s been over 20 years since Death Cab formed and around 12 years since they rose to the forefront of pop culture’s conscience by soundtracking some of the...

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A Kylie Minogue concert is a religious experience that everybody should have at least once in their life

She is, as Rufus Wainwright once famously said, the “gay shorthand for joy”. But listening to one of her albums only gives you the faintest taste of the full...

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Nick Murphy announces an exclusive Aussie tour, and Sydney is on the bill

Vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist Nick Murphy must have a spring in his step this morning, with his soulful new single ‘Sanity’ having just...

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Vivid Live announces the Cure as their first big-name act

Prepare for your local Priceline to run out of hairspray, classic goth-pop band the Cure are bringing their sensory melodies and voluminous hair to Sydney....