Music Network

Melbourne’s The Palace Theatre, which draws 450,000 patrons a year, is the latest music venue to announce it will be closing its doors in the city. The Palace will shut on May 31. The building’s…

Melbourne’s Music Advisory Committee has presented a draft, three-year Music Strategy for the city designed to position it as the “music capital of Australia”. The report calls on Council and music…

Applications for the City of Melbourne’s 2015 Arts Grants Program have opened. Funding of up to $20,000 is available for projects that "enliven the city and engage, challenge and excite residents,…

Veteran record producer and label founder Martin Erdman passed on Monday May 5 in Sydney, after a brief illness. He was 77. Erdman was best known as in-house producer for Festival Records from the…

Universal Music Group (UMG) has reported a 9.8% fall in first quarter revenues to €984 million - 2% down on the same quarter last year. The company says that revenues benefited from significant…

Apple is reportedly in negotiations to purchase Beats Electronics for US$3.2bn, which will mark the company’s largest acquisition to date. The Financial Times speculates that the deal could be…

While iHeartRadio is publicly celebrating its impressive user statistics, internal figures from the ABC show that various proprietary podcasts were downloaded 6.2 million times throughout April, with…

The City of Sydney has called for more than 1.6 million square metres of empty commercial and residential space to be made available to artists for creative activities and business endeavours. This…

Last night’s Federal Budget spared cuts to the community radio sector, although the ABC and SBS face a funding loss of $43.5 million. Community Broadcasting Association of Australia President Adrian…

A raft of eagerly-awaited music films and documentaries will make their debut at Sydney Film Festival, among them the Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard directed docu-fiction 20,000 Days on Earth about…

The presence of Jessica Mauboy at the grand final of the Eurovision song contest saw a peak of 927,000 (metro and regional) Australians tune in to SBS for the broadcast. Metro numbers, of 476,000,…

The Government will slash arts funding by $87.1 million over four years, with the Australia Council taking the biggest hit. Australia Council regularly provides funding to the music industry. In…