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Cyndi Lauper, seen here performing at the Glastonbury Festival in England, 2024, is touring Australia in 2025 on her farewell tour.

The 25 best concerts to see in Brisbane in 2025

These are the biggest rock, pop, hip-hop and country concerts coming to town that you need to know about – and book ASAP.

  • Nick Dent

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The top 10 gigs we’re looking forward to in 2025

Michael Dwyer lists the top music tours of 2025.

  • Michael Dwyer
The Neon exhibition at the State Library of Queensland runs until February.

Things to do during your summer holiday in Brisbane

Whether you’re looking for culture, sport, parties or just a way to cool down, find it in our guide to holiday activities in Brisbane over the 2024-25 break.

  • Nick Dent
Taylor Swift performing during the Toronto leg of her Eras Tour last month.

Taylor Swift dominates 2024 Spotify charts with 26.6 billion streams

Spotify Wrapped 2024 shows listeners were obsessed with Swift, female artists, collaborations and country music reimagined by big names.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Beyonce has topped the Grammys nominations list.

Beyonce leads Grammy nominations in female-dominated list

Australia’s Troye Sivan and Tame Impala also scored nominations.

“When this all ends, I better have something to distract myself with so I’m not just playing Fortnite all day.” Finneas, 27, on his second solo album, For Crying Out Loud!.

‘I play a chord and she says, play a better one’: Finneas on making hits with Billie Eilish

He’s won Grammys and Oscars with his famous younger sister. But for Finneas O’Connell, going solo is a necessary “coping mechanism”, he says.

  • Annabel Ross
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Tom Cruise rides the Olympic flag through the closing ceremony.

Celebrities take over star-studded Olympics closing ceremony

From artistic, dystopian ideas in Paris to a performance in Los Angeles, the Olympics closing ceremony reflected something of the current and future host countries.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Fireworks signal the end of the 2024 Summer Olympics closing ceremony taking place at the Stade de France, Monday, Aug. 12, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

French pageantry meets American razzle-dazzle in spectacular closing ceremony

A high-octane farewell to the Olympics featured a golden alien, a pianist dangling from the sky and Tom Cruise leaping from the roof of the Stade de France.

  • Jordan Baker

They ‘see’ music, smell colours, feel flavour. What’s it like to have synaesthesia?

Zinia is a composer who literally sees her music take shape. But it’s not just artists who experience this rare “crossover of the senses”. How does it work?

  • Jackson Graham
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Sky Ferreira emerges after 10 years of ‘being erased’ by record label drama

The cult pop enigma returns to Australian stages for Vivid Live in Sydney and Rising in Melbourne.

  • Robert Moran

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