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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…

Amazon are entering into the world of music streaming, with plans to launch a stand-alone entertainment system, powered by Android. Gaming site VG247 reports that the product will compete directly…

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…

Two leading music PR agencies, Paul Piticco’s Secret Service Public Relations and Stacey Piggott’s 15-year old Two Fish Out Of Water, have today merged under the Secret Service name. Piggott will now…

Jane English new MD of Music Sales Australia Music publishing veteran Jane English has been announced as the new Managing Director of Sydney-based Music Sales Australia. English was formerly VP of…

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 nine albums shortlisted for the 9th Coopers AMP were unveiled at the Shortlisted event, held on Sunday at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne. As is often the case with the AMP, it is a…