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Queensland s Premier and Minister for Arts Annastacia Palaszczuk dedicated $43.1 million to the arts sector over the next four years in yesterday s state budget. There was nothing specific for the…

It seems like you'd barely find a single punter at a music festival who wasn't either fiercely clutching a plastic bottle of water, or drunkenly sloshing a plastic cup's worth of beer on you in the…

Nigel Grainge, the British music industry veteran who signed the likes of Sinead O’Connor, The Boomtown Rats, Thin Lizzy, Steve Miller Band, 10cc, The Waterboys and was recognized as one of the top A…

Rockin' The Puburbs, aside from being an excellently-named competition, is giving one band a mighty leg-up, with a run of gigs across some of the leading pubs in NSW on offer. The winning band…

As part of its overall objective to service the Australasian music industry, The Industry Observer has launched a free-to-access airplay charts portal. TIO's charts portal consists of five weekly…

It's been just under three months since Mirror Music Group Director Kurt Bailey launched Mirror Records, inking deals with up-and-coming Aussie musicians Sloan Peterson and Ric Rufio, and beefing up…

From its inception as a tiny Melbourne store in the 1970's, to becoming the linchpin that paved the way for electronic dance music in Australia and New Zealand, Central Station Records' status as an…

Pandora has sold its ticketing agency platform Ticketfly to rival Eventbrite, the San Francisco-based ticketing agency that tickets nearly 3 million events a year. The US$200 million deal, said to be…

From today, pubs across NSW are on the look-out for the next big thing in live music as part of the first-ever Rockin the Puburbs competition. APRA AMCOS, in partnership with AHA NSW and the Live…

Denis Handlin, chairman and CEO of Australia and New Zealand, and president, Asia, of Sony Music Entertainment; Michael Coppel, Chairman of Live Nation Australia and New Zealand; and Paul Dainty,…