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The Fortitude Music Hall’s extended housewarming party is shaping as a ruckus. British metalcore outfit Architects are the first band announced to play Brisbane’s newest music venue, on Aug. 8, 2019,…

The recently-launched Australian Festivals Association has weighed in on the mess that is the NSW festivals licensing regime, which the peak body concedes was "too rushed and done without enough…

The 61st Grammy Awards are all done and dusted for another year, with a number of huge surprises coming our way as usual. Back in December, the nominations for the annual Grammy Awards were…

"I am saying now, Bluesfest will leave NSW. We have no choice; it's a matter of survival. Will the last festival to leave NSW please turn out the light of culture in this soon to be barren state?"…

A dynamite new documentary on Michael Jackson has had the late singer’s estate all fired up since its premiere last month at Sundance Film Festival. Now, with HBO announcing a March 3 release date…

Music technology veteran Hazel Savage, previously of Shazam in London, Pandora and Universal Music in Sydney, and BandLab in Singapore, has raised US$1 million to tackle music discovery and curation…

Industry whispers have suggested the cancellation of next week's Mountain Sounds Festival is imminent. Sources close to the festival have told TIO poor ticket sales and additional police and…

New rules in Spotify's updated Terms of Service policy state that those who use ad blockers could see their accounts immediately terminated or suspended. The rules state that “circumventing or…

Everyone’s talking about AI and its upsides (and potentially-hideous downsides) for the music and creative communities. SuperRes, the Brisbane startup which uses AI for advanced audio search and…

Content Warning: This article discusses sexual assault, and rape. If you or someone you know are affected by the following story, you are not alone. To speak to someone, you can call Lifeline on 13…