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The Victorian government has committed $250,000 to support the creative sector of the Melbourne satellite town of Geelong. “Geelong has quickly established its reputation as one of our state’s great…

Queensland’s Big Pineapple Music Festival has sold out in record time, it announced this morning. Tickets first went on sale less than six weeks ago. This comes in the wake of tomorrow’s Bad Friday…

PHOTO: (L-R) Sony/ATV president, global chief marketing officer Brian Monaco, Pharrell Williams and Sony/ATV chairman and CEO Martin Bandier. Sony/ATV Music Publishing has renewed its worldwide deal…

JUNCTION ARTS ANNOUNCES 2018 DATE Northern Tasmania’s Junction Arts, which good naturedly markets itself as “Tasmania’s Other Festival” will be held September 5—9 in Launceston for its eighth…

The Beasts of Bourbon and The Scientists are reforming for a fund raiser next month for bassist Brian Hooper. He was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer last year. The concert, I Get Up Again is on…

Residents of Burleigh Heads in Queensland are rattling up the drums after the Gold Coast City Council slapped a ban on playing bongos in Justins Park. Banned also are fire twirling and slacklining…

Foxtel’s MAX channel is spending the Easter long weekend counting off its annual 1000 Greatest Songs Of All Time. Hosted by “Molly” Meldrum, it begins tomorrow (Good Friday) at noon and winds up at…

The UK government has agreed to invest £150 million (A$275.7 million) in the country’s creative industries to make them globally competitive and to maintain the country’s reputation as a place of…

The inaugural TIO Awards started out beautifully last night as Holly Rankin -- who you may also know as excellent musician Jack River -- delivered a powerful keynote speech, in which she applauded…

Spotify is feeling pretty upbeat about Spotify in the days leading up to its widely-anticipated listing on the New York Stock Exchange. The streaming music giant shared its quarterly and yearly…