If you’ve ever needed an excuse to make a mission into the desert, there is no better time than for Wide Open Space Music Arts and Lifestyle Festival (no relation!) on May 4-6. Featuring an eclectic line-up with everyone from UK folk/punk hero Frank Turner and Oz hip-hop kings T

Open Records is proud to be sending a big contingent to the all-new Harmonize Festival in South-East Queensland from June 1-3. The event is shaping up to be one of the best parties on the Aussie winter calendar, with Open Records’ Australian deep contingent FunkForm, Closer Apar

Summer is now officially over in Australia, but that doesn’t mean the parties have to stop. Next weekend is the annual Maitreya Festival in Victoria, the traditional end of the summer circuit. As always, Open Records has a big showing, with Interpulse, Rex’n'Chappo, Paul A

South East Queensland turns it on for one of the biggest and best alternative outdoor music and lifestyle festivals in February, with the newly expanded Earth Frequency Festival in Jimna from February 17-20. The event that was once known simply as Earth Freq is bigger and better than

One event Open Records is very proud to be involved with in December is For The Love Festival, located a couple of hours outside Melbourne in Victoria. The event features one of the best line-ups of music of the year in Australia for an event of its size and the best bit is, it’

One of Open Records’ favourite festivals of the year is on again this weekend, thanks to our good friends at Subsonic Music. Subsonic Music Festival boasts one of the biggest, best and most diverse line-ups of the year, featuring everyone from techno and house greats like Appara

The annual extravaganza that is Strawberry Fields Festival in Australia is back again with us next weekend, bringing with it one of the biggest line-ups of the year of electronic music in Australia. From international techno and house giants like Minilogue, Channel X, Egbert, Max Coop

After being one of the most successful festivals in Queensland in 2010, Manifest returns for a second installment next weekend with a cracking line-up of both Australian and international talent. It’ a special weekend for Open Records too, launching our new compilation Depth Per

We reported a little while back that Beatport had launched its BETA test for a new version of the world’s most popular dance music download site. After about a month of a closed BETA where only select users could get inside, they have finally swung open its doors to the general

Collaborations Festival is an Australian music, arts and culture event located in the gorgeous savannah setting in the “Y” junction of the Palmer & Johnston Riverbed About 2 and 1/2 hours north of Cairns in Far North Queensland from July 22-24. In it’s fifth yea