While we at Tone Deaf deliver the unfortunate news of another Aussie live music venue closure seemingly every month, we seem to simultaneously be announcing the opening of another awesome-looking live music space just about every week.

Indeed, while the Australian live music venue landscape has never been more hostile, constantly struggling with draconian liquor licensing laws and noise regulations, there are still lots of great new venues regularly popping up.

In order to highlight some of the cool new additions to the Aussie live music scene and to give readers a cheat sheet on where to catch gigs in their local area, we’ve put together 12 of Australia’s best new live music venues.

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