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CAMPAIGN TO MAKE BRISBANE S LYCEUM AN ENTERTAINMENT VENUE A battle has begun in Brisbane over the Lyceum Theatre, with Odyssey Entertainment starting a campaign to raise $25,000. Its GM Daniel…

GfK has released the second DAB+ Survey results of 2017, showing cumulative audience numbers for each station. Survey 2 sees a unique #1 digital station in each city. After being crowned Australia s…

As speculation grows about the future of SoundCloud, the ten-year-old Berlin-based streaming company is aiming to build up its subscriber base in America. It is offering a three-month subscription to…

Vinyl sales were up after this year s global Record Store Day (RSD) on April 22. They rose 14% in the United States and 40% in the UK from last year s RSD. In both countries, RSD 2017 was declared…

Image: National Gallery Of Victoria (source) The Victorian Parliament has passed the Creative Victoria Act 2016, signalling what it called a new era for the creative industries in our state , but…

American EDM outfit Major Lazer and French DJ Snake have joined an elite click club. The video for Lean On, filmed in two Indian cities, has exceeded 2 billion views on YouTube. Others in the club…

Melbourne has won their bid to host the Music Cities Convention in 2018, becoming the first city outside Europe and the US to do so. The conference will bring together government, academic and music…

A week after the ACT Government passed on introducing pill testing at the Canberra show of the Groovin The Moo festival in May, it has left the door open for more discussion. It has announced it is…

After a year-long case, the Australian Federal Court has ordered Australian ISPs (internet service providers) to block their customers from accessing torrent site Kickass Torrents and its related…

Queensland s peak music association QMusic told its annual general meeting last week that 2016 gave it the largest surplus in (its) history , according to its President, Michael Crutcher. Total…