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Stephen Green’s SGC Group acquires TheMusic.com.au from Melbourne’s Handshake Media, marking the first time the online music title has changed hands. TheMusic.com.au launched in 2013 as the online…

More than $400,000 has been allocated in the first round of Sounds Australia’s Export Stimulus program, a lifeline drawn up to help the local music industry get up and over the line as stages and…

Jaguar Jonze has turned one of Denis Handlin's keynote speeches into art. The polymath musician and visual artist (real name Deena Lynch) today releases ‘Who Died and Made You King?', a…

The live industry is bloodied and bruised by the pandemic, with many venue operators facing uncertainty and closure. The team behind Five Four Entertainment, Plus One Co. and Lion Arts Factory are…

The rise and fall of former Sony Music chief Denis Handlin is chronicled in a major ABC exposé, due to air next week.Facing the Music, a Four Corners documentary, reported by Grace Tobin, will go to…

KCRW, the tastemaker described by the L.A. Times as “the most influential noncommercial radio station in the country," has been dishing up a steady diet of Australian tunes in recent months. Jack…

Ausmusic T-Shirt Day returns this year, backed by some the biggest names in Australian music. Support Act is behind the nationwide campaign, set for November 19 and which serves the dual purpose of…

INXS’ Andrew Farriss and the late Michael Hutchence are inducted into APRA AMCOS’ billionaire club. The rockers taken their place on The 1,000,000,000 List, for their songwriting contribution to Dua…

Seven Australian organisations will benefit from Sony Music Group’s $100 million Global Social Justice Fund, part of the music giant’s commitment to support social justice and anti-racist initiatives…

Natalie Imbruglia’s Firebird is soaring high on the midweek U.K. chart. The veteran Australian pop singer’s new album, her first through a new deal with BMG (and first since becoming a mum), is…

With their Top 20 debut on the ARIA Albums Chart, NCT 127 join an elite club of K-Pop acts riding a wave of popularity in these parts.The K-pop boyband, a nine-strong “sub-unit” of the group NCT,…

The Annex is getting an extension. Mardi Caught’s marketing services venture recruits Elinor Williams as Client Strategy Director and Hannah Heyen as Label Strategy Manager, ahead of an expansion…