News

Applications for two Australia Council music grants – Presentation Promotion and New Works – close on Monday, May 5. Presentation Promotion provides up to $30,000 to support one-off projects that…

Six deaths at Future Music’s Malaysian leg has caused organisers to cancel the final day of Future Music Festival Asia. Kuala Lumpur Police confirmed media reports that six local festival-goers, aged…

In a candid interview with the New Zealand Herald, Damon Albarn has said organisers at Big Day Out festival were the reason Blur pulled out of this year’s tour. "They [the organisers] weren’t being…

After launching their services in twenty new territories last December, Rdio are now preparing to enter the Indian market, acquiring popular streaming service Dhingana with plans to rebrand and…

A biography of Rolling Stone publisher and co-founder, Jann Wenner, is in the works. The book will be penned by Joe Hagan, a contributing editor for New York magazine who has written long-form pieces…

Victoria’s peak music association Music Victoria has this morning unveiled a White Paper making known a series of recommendations to politicians ahead of the state election on November 29. The…

The death toll of the vehicular manslaughter at SXSW is now three after a woman has died in hospital. 26-year-old Mississippi native Sandy Thuy Le was in critical condition when she was admitted to…

One Direction fever is now officially a worldwide epidemic, with the UK lads’ third album Midnight Memories the highest selling record worldwide in 2013. These figures come from IFPI’s Digital Music…

DJ Warehouse Australia in administration DJ Warehouse Australia, the country’s largest supplier of DJ gear, music production and PA hire, informed suppliers that it is set to cease trading. Pro-audio…

Triple j and the ABC have announced that digital station Dig Music will be renamed Double J and re-launched on Wednesday 30 April. The station will also introduce regular presenters with music…