Christie Eliezer

Image: Midnight Oil at Marrickville Bowling Club (Photo by Adam Lewis) OILS WARM UP FOR WARM UP Welcome to the world of a warm-up for a warm-up. Rather than wait to do their scheduled pre-tour club…

TONIGHT ALIVE SWITCH TO UNFD, HOPELESS After scoring a couple of Top 10 albums with Sony Music, Sydney band Tonight Alive (pictured) have gone the indie route. They signed with UNFD for A/NZ and…

Image: The Rosemount Hotel’s Andrew Ryan and Larry Murray in the revamped space REVAMPED ROSEMOUNT UNVEILED TONIGHT The revamped Rosemount Hotel is unveiled tonight (Thursday April 13) during the…

Last night s Federal Budget for 2017/8 helped repair the damage caused to the arts and entertainment sector with savage funding cuts in recent years. But the general response of the sector was…

Keith Urban s Ripcord has just notched up a full year in the Top 30 of the ARIA Album charts, as of this week’s chart. Released in May 2016 and quickly reaching platinum status for 70,000 sales, his…

Spotify now has hit 140 million global active users, the Swedish streaming giant has announced on its website. The figure was 126 million in December 2016 and 100 million a year ago. The company…

Disappointing and no vision were two responses from the music industry to yesterday s NSW Budget. With a focus on developing the arts in the western suburbs and in regional areas, the Budget…

Is JAY-Z on his way to Bluesfest Byron Bay next year? That s been the buzz since festival Director Peter Noble sent a newsletter to subscribers indicating he was close to unveiling the first round of…

Spotify has indignantly denied media allegations that it pays producers to create songs under phony names. As reported by Music Business Worldwide, the fake artists are reportedly put on premium…

A remarkable 127% growth in streaming revenue in Australia and New Zealand over the last year to $62.2 million along with a 13.6% leap in international revenue to $43.5 million helped APRA AMCOS…

MORE PINK DATES, TOUR HITS 33 SHOWS The Australian leg of Pink s Beautiful Trauma World Tour reached 33 shows, with the addition yesterday of three more dates. These were the fourth show at Perth…

FastForward, the future-focused music business conference, makes its debut in Sydney on April Thursday 12 and Friday 13. It’s the first time that it will be held outside Europe, where it first…