Kendrick Lamar is coming to Australia in 2025

This morning, it was announced the 'Not Like Us' rapper will head to Australia to play Spilt Milk. Here's everything you need to know

By Amy Campbell

Published: May 2, 2025

Kendrick Lamar Australia Spilt Milk 2025 — Kendrick Lamar during his 2025 Super Bowl Half Time Show. Photography: Getty Images

HOLD THE PHONE. Kendrick Lamar has just been announced as the headline act for 2025’s Spilt Milk music festival.

The Australian music festival, which has grown to attract some of the biggest names in music in previous years, dropped the bombshell announcement this morning. If you thought the music festivals in Australia were becoming a relic of the past, think again.

News that Kendrick Lamar will headline Spilt Milk 2025 follows what’s been a phenomenal year for the Pulitzer Prize-winning artist – and it’s only May. In February, he swept the Grammys, claiming five awards, while his Super Bowl Half Time Show was one of the best (and most spicy, with the most memorable boot cut jeans) the NFL has ever seen. Released in November 2024, his most recent album GNX was also a chart topper, while his co-headline Grand National Tour with SZA has sold out all over the northern hemisphere.

Lamar will play Spilt Milk stages across Australia’s regional centres, including Ballarat, Perth, Gold Coast and Canberra. He’ll be joined by a mammoth line up that includes Florida swamp princess and Billboard Woman of the Year, Doechii, heavyweight American DJ Sara Landry, ‘misses’ singer Dominic Fike and US rap icon ScHoolboy Q.

See the full Spilt Milk line-up, and how to get tickets to the blockbuster festival, below.