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Poison City Records, Gooch Palms, The Smith Street Band and Reece Mastin are among a horde of musicians protesting the Federal Budget s funding cuts to community radio. Community radio initiative…

HIT 104.7 Canberra presenter Ryan Jon has been commissioned by social-first digital agency Jaden Social and brand marketplace Tribe to host and produce the Influencers Podcast. Launched today, the…

PRESS RELEASE: Sacem, the French authors’ rights society, and SOCAN, the Society of Composers Authors Music Publishers of Canada, announce today the signature of an agreement entrusting Sacem to…

The South Australian Music Awards (SAM Awards) to be held in November on Friday November 11 has added new categories in its second year. The public-voted genre categories cover blues roots, country,…

Sydney s 5 Seconds of Summer will feature on the soundtrack for this year’s Ghostbusters reboot. Announced on Twitter this morning, the quartet recorded the track Girls Talk Boys for the film s…

Creative icon Prince passed away as a result of an accidental opioid overdose. After Prince was found dead at his home in Minnesota on April 21, reports emerged that a painkiller drug was found in…

PRESS RELEASE: Australian communities will continue to enjoy independent community digital radio, with a Shorten Labor Government committed to restoring much-needed funding to these services.…

Image: Robin Millar, Jeremy Lascelles, Chris Wright, Robert Devereux Chrysalis Music, one of the first of the legendary British independent labels, has been sold by Warner Music to Blue Raincoat a…

Iconic men s magazine Playboy has entered music streaming. The Playboy Music app, at US99 cents a month, will offer live music to racy footage of women posing, acting and lounging about. Its music…

PRESS RELEASE: Warner Music Group (WMG) has acquired X5 Music Group (X5) in a deal announced today. X5 specializes in licensing deep catalog and specific genres of music to create playlists,…