I recently underwent an urgent surgery to have a cancerous growth removed – but this wasn’t enough of a reason for me to get a refund to a music festival.
- Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow in Music Industries and Cultural Economy, RMIT University
When Amyl and the Sniffers’ show was cancelled on Friday night, they placed $35,000 across the bars of seven prominent grassroots music venues around Melbourne.
The newly launched Australian Music Venue Foundation is partly modelled on the United Kingdom’s Music Venue Trust, but the UK model has a more radical approach.
New research on the use of GenAI and automation in producing music for Australian video games reveals a messy picture.
Only five of the Hottest 100 winners have been bands in the past 15 years, compared to 13 in the 15 years prior.
Ticket revenue is booming in Australia, yet the music sector is in crisis. Could market concentration be to blame?
Thanks to dynamic pricing, tickets for Green Day reached $500. Is this the new normal for live music?
The return on government investments in arts and events should be measured over a decade, not a month.
A new watchdog website is shedding light on which artists and genres the youth broadcaster is really prioritising.
The Australian live music industry is in crisis. Is $8.6 million for Revive Live enough to turn things around?
Everyone has a favourite band, or a favourite composer, or a favourite song. So if we all have our own opinions on music, is it ever possible to judge it objectively?
Groovin’ the Moo is the latest in a long line of Australian music festivals to be cancelled. It is the new normal in our age of ‘deep uncertainty’.
Pubs like the John Curtin Hotel are more than just buildings – the loss of the hotel would also be a loss of our living cultural memory.
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