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Usually when controversy occurs, its lifespan is rather contracted, remaining relevant for a few days or weeks at most, before dying down as people get back to their daily lives. However, another…

Amy Shark, Thundamentals, Ian Moss, Troy Cassar-Daley, The Cat Empire, Kate Miller-Heidke, Yothu Yindi and The Treaty Project and Busby Marou are among those to play for audiences at the Gold Coast…

Bluesfest announced a host of Australian roots, groove and blues acts to its bill this morning. Leading the announcement is Dan Sultan who slips in his Bluesfest appearance with the 18-date Killer…

SAFIA, Dune Rats, Holy Holy, San Cisco and Ruby Fields make up the bill for Australia’s new surf festival The Drop. The new festival will follow the Aussie leg of the World Surfing Championship Tour,…

WARNER / CHAPPELL ADD MANIC STREET PREACHERS Warner/Chappell has signed Manic Street Preachers, Music Week reported. The deal reunites the band with its MD Mike Smith, whom they worked with at…

Two New Zealand activists who wrote an open letter urging Lorde to cancel her Tel Aviv concert are being sued by an Israeli legal rights group. The group, Shurat HaDin, is demanding $13,000 in…

Two more Australian acts have been picked to showcase at South By Southwest (SXSW), as the major Austin-Texas festival revealed 113 new additions from around the world. The two latest to join the…

An attempt by British guitarist Paul Rose to be paid $5 million in damages and get a writing credit on U2 s 1991 single ’The Fly has failed. New York US district judge Denise Cote has dismissed his…

Ticket scalpers beware: the federal government is considering an outright ban on bots or a crackdown on reselling tickets for “major events.” After years of persuasion from the live industry and…

When Universal Music Publishing Group’s chairman/CEO was tapped for Billboard's much-discussed Power 100, she was of course asked what her post-#metoo strategy was. Jody Gerson, who has increased…