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Samsung Electronics is ending its Music Hub service on July 1 in all territories excluding Australia. The decision, made Saturday, came three years after its launch. The multinational retailer pulled…

Tim Kelly will join SME as General Manager Marketing Asia Pacific, effective June 2. Kelly moves to Sony Music from Universal Music Australia, where he has held the position of General Manager…

Users of popular crowdfunding website Kickstarter have been asked to change their passwords after the company revealed it had been hacked. New York City police officials contacted the fundraising…

Homegrown Music Festival returns to the Sunshine Coast on July 29, now run by Sustainable Partnership Australia (SPA). It was operated for 12 years by Lifeline and Uniting Care Communities until 2012…

The Australian Government’s arts funding body Australia Council has awarded $1.2m of grants to artists and music companies including Vance Joy, John Watson’s Eleven A Music Company, The Drones, PVT…

Justice Crew’s Que Sera still holds pole position on the iTunes 100 this week. It looks like Ariana Grande’s Problem featuring Iggy Azalea came close, but just failed to knock them from the top spot.…

Forget Beats Music, today marks the soft launch of Kim Dotcom’s Baboom, the Internet mogul’s new music service, which he claims is a cross between Spotify and iTunes. Not one to shy away from a…

This week we catch Kylie and Lily Allen at Cannes, triple j host another wild One Night Stand at Mildura with Illy, Violent Soho and Jungle Giants, MTV’s Kate Peck interviews Ricki-Lee and more. If…

The venue that helped helm the revolution of dance music in the mid-late ‘80s is set to open a beachside location in Melbourne. Café del Mar, the beach club and brand, has been at the forefront of…

Sydney’s Sound Summit Festival of Independent and Innovative Music is taking a break this year. “The ongoing financial viability of the festival has been a major factor in this decision, with Sound…