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New music festival from PAK Records loves locals

A new boutique festival by a local record label will take over Rhino Room and Low Life Basement Bar in August with Adelaide headliner Placement, two Victorian heavyweights and more.

The best places in Adelaide to buy records

For music lovers, nothing much beats digging out a classic old record or finding a brilliant new one and hearing it play on a decent turntable. These are our favourite records stores around Adelaide. Happy vinyl hunting.

Swipe right for Part Time Records’ Singles Club

Place your trust in the tastes of music industry veteran Emma Coyle and Wolf & Cub founding member Joel Byrne, as they send out split records of some of Adelaide’s most exciting new musicians.

Introducing three-day all-local picnic party Utopian State

Here’s to Now founder Jordan Jeavons has teamed up with Endless Grooves and Papershell Farm for a three-day, all-ages, family-friendly musical picnic party in Willunga.

Spark entrepreneurs literally break world records

This year the world's largest projection on a moving screen was achieved by an entrepreneur who developed his business in Adelaide. 

Discovering colonial encounters in our own backyard

Colonial encounters between Aboriginal peoples and settlers in South Australia have been compiled in an interactive map, allowing South Australians to learn more about the history in their own backyards.

Speaking from the South is the thinkfest you shouldn’t miss

If you care about climate change, inequality and other world issues, you’ll welcome perspectives from the Global South. The University of Adelaide is bringing together an impressive group of writers and thinkers, including two Nobel Laureates, for a 6-day thinkfest. And tickets are insanely cheap.

‘They should expect a little bit of truth’

Aboriginal man Elijah Bravington is leading eye-opening Indigenous-informed tours of the city for the Nature Festival, and says patrons should be ready to see their city in a more honest light.