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The West Australian Government will take back management of its theatres – His Majesty’s, State Theatre Centre, Perth Concert Hall and Subiaco Arts Centre – from January 1, 2015. These theatres have…

Shazam unveiled its major app redesign this morning putting the music identification service in line with streaming services and music discovery apps. Similar to free Apple store apps like Discovr…

Bondi Wave Music Industry Conference organisers have announced that this year’s event, taking place on May 16, will include keynote speeches and conversations with Mushroom Publishing’s Ian James and…

New names at EMI EMI Music Australia’s Managing Director John O’Donnell unveiled changes at the label. Alicia Reynolds is new Director of Promotions Publicity. She was previously at Universal Music…

Seven West Media deny talks with Fairfax Seven West Media has attempted to stop rumours that they are in talks with Fairfax Media. Seven West Media own nine regional radio stations in WA as well as…

The Australia Council For The Arts has raised funding and added a further 11 independent record labels to its Recording Initiative. Chapter Music, Future Classic, Head Records, Hope Street…

Katy Perry, Robbie Williams and Ricky Martin take selfies at 2Day FM, radio duos Kyle and Jackie O and Amanda and Jonesy celebrate their ratings survey success and Triple J’s Zan Rowe does SXSW.…

Voting has opened for the 2014 APRA Song of the Year award, the largest peer-voted songwriting award in the country. The vote is open to all APRA members currently living in Australia (NZ members are…

More Aussies say: stop the world, I want to get on R B singer and songwriter Alston Koch this week moved to Los Angeles to work with Prince’s music director and chase up soundtrack offers. He has…

Kickstarter has released its financials for the first quarter of 2014, which show that an average of US$1.24m was pledged each day from January to the end of March. Just over US$112m has been pledged…