02/06/2026
For 15 years, Art As Catharsis has championed experimental sounds from the Australian underground: music that pushes outward, digs deeper, and resists easy categorisation.
Across heavy, progressive, psychedelic, ambient, experimental and uncategorisable music, the label has built a home for artists working at the edges of genre.
These anniversary showcases bring together some of the many threads that have shaped the Art As Catharsis community: heavy, beautiful, strange, ecstatic, abrasive and intimate music from artists who continue to expand what Australian underground music can be.
Each lineup offers a different snapshot of the label’s history and future, celebrating the bands, listeners, venues and collaborators who have helped sustain 15 years of adventurous sound.
We hope you can join us.
Sunday 16 August at Crowbar, Brisbane
Deafcult
Hope Drone
hazards of swimming naked
Big Dead
hana(v)macklin
Joseph Rabjohns & Lachlan Dale
Friday 21 August at The Bendigo Hotel, Melbourne
Ghostsmoker
Convulsing
Black Aleph
Brian Campeau
Diploid
Instrumental (adj.)
Saleeha & TVISB
Lack The Low
Aphir
Sunday 23 August at Lazybones, Sydney
Black Aleph
Instrumental (adj.)
Brian Campeau
HELU
Migret
Tickets are available form tix.to/aac15 or in our bio.
