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Two more music venues have closed their doors permanently, while another has cancelled shows while it’s closed for renovations. Melbourne’s Empress of India Hotel, long time supporter of emerging…

Queen, Universal, renew deal: film, albums Queen and Universal Music Group renewed their deal, celebrating the occasion at this week’s launch of a new Queen exhibition in Montreux, Switzerland,…

Nakagin Bloom Is it too broad to say that we’re in the producer age? With the likes of Ta-ku, Chet Faker, Wave Racer, Elizabeth Rose and, of course, the biggest of the big, Flume making such seismic…

Taylor Swift, and Leonard Cohen are in the country, Kate and Hughsey say farewell, and Gossling does the rounds. [FinalTilesGallery id=’16’]

U2 wrote the song Ordinary Love from the movie Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. They wrote it especially for the movie after being contacted by its producer Harvey Weinstein, who knew of their…

Seven Australian festivals were among the 43 international events which received gongs in this year’s A Greener Festival Award. To score a win, each festival had to pass a checklist of environmental…

More good news for Sydney, the country, and culture in general, with the announcement that the City of Sydney are making Council-owned properties available as rehearsal spaces, and gig venues, as…

Their debut single hits commercial radio tomorrow, so we invited the pop duo into our office this morning to perform a version of the hooky single ’Love Drunk’.

Two streaming services have announced major global expansion plans within the past 24 hours. Streaming music provider Rdio this morning (Australian time) launched its services in 20 new countries.…

SCA and Shazam team to promote UMA acts Southern Cross Austereo launched a new radio campaign using Shazam to increase awareness of Universal Music Australia’s priority acts in the run-up to…