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Yamaha Main Stage Grant 2026 supporting Australian musicians

Yamaha Main Stage Grant Returns With $30,000 In Artist Support

by Paul Cashmere

Yamaha Music Australia has reopened applications for its 2026 Main Stage Grant, with three Australian music creators to receive $5,000 cash and $5,000 worth of Yamaha gear.

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Bonnaroo festival grounds at The Farm in Manchester Tennessee

Bonnaroo Takes A Year Off In 2027 After Weather Hits The Farm

by Paul Cashmere

Bonnaroo will not take place in 2027, with organisers giving The Farm in Manchester, Tennessee, a year to recover after repeated severe weather events.

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Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2026 artists including Rebirth Brass Band, Benjamin Clementine, BIGYUKI and Haus Party

Melbourne International Jazz Festival Unveils 2026 Program

by Paul Cashmere

Melbourne International Jazz Festival has unveiled its 2026 program, featuring more than 550 artists from 18 countries across 150 events and 30 venues from 16 to 25 October.

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2026 Art Music Awards winners and performers at The Timber Yard Melbourne

2026 Art Music Awards Winners Announced

by Paul Cashmere

The 2026 Art Music Awards have recognised Australian composers, performers, educators and organisations, with Chamber Made taking two honours and Liza Lim AM receiving the Richard Gill Award.

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XMusic Australian rock showcase at Soapbox Beer Brisbane

XMusic Announces Three Nights Of Rock In Brisbane

by Paul Cashmere

XMusic will present three nights of Australian rock, hard rock and metal at Brisbane’s Soapbox Beer from September 1 to 3.

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Born To Run Dave Marsh

Dave Marsh, Influential Rock Critic And Bruce Springsteen Biographer, Dies At 76

by Paul Cashmere

Influential rock critic, author and Bruce Springsteen biographer Dave Marsh has died at his Connecticut home aged 76.

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Johnny Young performing during his long Australian music and television career

Johnny Young Dies At 79 After Battle With Pancreatic Cancer

by Paul Cashmere

Johnny Young, the singer, songwriter and creator of Young Talent Time, has died aged 79 following a short illness with pancreatic cancer.

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Peter Garrett Midnight Oil 6 November 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Midnight Oil Blue Sky Mining Gets Limited Blue Vinyl And Signed Jim Moginie Photo Book

by Paul Cashmere

Midnight Oil’s Blue Sky Mining is being paired with limited clear blue vinyl and Red Filter Blue Sky, a signed 100-page photography book by Jim Moginie featuring images from the band’s 1990 world tour.

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Guy Sebastian Facebook profile

Guy Sebastian And Titus Day Resolve Nine-Year Legal Battle

by Paul Cashmere

Guy Sebastian and former manager Titus Day have resolved their long-running Federal Court dispute, with Day acknowledging failures to account for payments and apologising to Sebastian and his family.

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Uptight Happening 70 71 72 hard cover book documenting Australian music television from 1967 to 1972

Uptight/Happening 70/71/72 Book Documents Australian Music Television Before Countdown

by Paul Cashmere

A new 396-page hard-cover book documents Uptight and Happening 70, 71 and 72, preserving a significant period of Australian music television history before Countdown.

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Bill Armstrong

Bill Armstrong, Australian Recording Industry Pioneer And EON-FM Founder, Dies At 97

by Paul Cashmere

Bill Armstrong AM, the pioneering Australian recording engineer, studio owner and broadcaster who founded Armstrong Studios and helped establish EON-FM, has died aged 97.

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Dolly Parton All I Can Do

Dolly Parton’s All I Can Do Turns 50 As A Pivotal Album Before Here You Come Again

by Paul Cashmere

Dolly Parton’s All I Can Do turns 50, marking the final chapter of her creative partnership with Porter Wagoner and the album that paved the way for Here You Come Again.

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Glen Hansard with The Frames photo by Ros O'Gorman

Glen Hansard Farewelled In Dublin As Bono, Eddie Vedder And Music Community Pay Tribute

by Paul Cashmere

Bono, Eddie Vedder, Hozier, The Edge and many of Glen Hansard’s closest collaborators gathered in Dublin for an emotional musical farewell to the Oscar-winning songwriter.

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ZZ Top By Mary Boukouvalas _1

ZZ Top Cancel Hollywood Bowl Concert With Cheap Trick Over Personnel Matters

by Paul Cashmere

ZZ Top have cancelled their Hollywood Bowl concert with Cheap Trick because of unforeseen personnel matters. The tour is currently expected to resume in Fresno on 7 August.

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Liza Lim AM

Liza Lim AM To Receive Distinguished Services To Australian Music Honour At 2026 Art Music Awards

by Paul Cashmere

Professor Liza Lim AM will be recognised with the Richard Gill Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music at the 2026 Art Music Awards.

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The Bures Band

The Bures Band Announce Third Album Ozonia And National Tour

by Paul Cashmere

The Bures Band will release their third studio album Ozonia on August 28 through Love Police Records & Tapes, with new single “Delta” available now and an Australian tour set for October.

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Ralph Carr

Ralph Carr Conviction Shakes Australian Music And Sports Management

by Paul Cashmere

Australian entertainment and sports manager Ralph Carr has been publicly identified after a suppression order was lifted following his conviction on two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault.

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Vicki Wickham Noise11 interview

Vicki Wickham Remembered As Visionary Behind Ready Steady Go! And Dusty Springfield’s Enduring Legacy

by Paul Cashmere

Vicki Wickham, the pioneering producer behind Ready Steady Go! and the longtime manager and confidante of Dusty Springfield, has died. Noise11 reflects on her remarkable contribution to British music, television and artist management.

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Protest on the Dancefloor

MIFF Unveils 2026 Award Nominees Across $300,000 Prize Pool

by Paul Cashmere

Melbourne International Film Festival has revealed the nominees for its 2026 awards, with more than $300,000 in prize money to be awarded across feature films, directing, First Nations screen creatives and short filmmaking.

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Stacks and Summer Rosee photo by @unicornrainbowhug

STACKS Wins 2026 Diana Torossian Emerging Songwriter Award

by Paul Cashmere

Brisbane songwriter and producer STACKS has won the 2026 Diana Torossian Emerging Songwriter Award, receiving mentoring, songwriting sessions and a $3,000 cash prize. Summer Rosee was named runner-up.

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Glenn A Baker

Glenn A. Baker Dies Aged 74, Leaving Enduring Legacy In Australian Music Journalism

by Paul Cashmere

Australian music journalist, broadcaster and author Glenn A. Baker has died aged 74. The news was confirmed by friend and collaborator Stuart Coupe, marking the loss of one of Australia’s most influential music historians.

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Ninajirachi photo by Tom Vanderzeil

Ninajirachi Dominates 2026 AIR Awards With Five Wins As Independent Music Sector Celebrates 20th Anniversary

by Paul Cashmere

Ninajirachi claimed five honours at the 2026 AIR Awards in Adelaide, leading the winners as the Australian independent music industry celebrated the event’s 20th anniversary.

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Craig Bloxom of Spy Vs Spy

V.Spy V.Spy’s Harry’s Reasons And A.O. Mod. TV. Vers. Reissued As Craig Bloxom Revisits The Albums That Defined The Band

by Paul Cashmere

Craig Bloxom discusses the return of V.Spy V.Spy’s Harry’s Reasons and A.O. Mod. TV. Vers., the albums’ place in Australian rock history and the July 31 pre-order deadline.

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The Beatles US albums

The Beatles: Why America Received Different Beatles Albums to the Rest of the World

by Paul Cashmere

Before 1967, American Beatles albums often featured different songs, different running orders and even different mixes. Here’s why Capitol Records reshaped the band’s catalogue for the US market.

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Leading Edge Group

Leading Edge Group Collapse Puts Regional Music Retailers Under Pressure

by Paul Cashmere

Leading Edge Group has entered voluntary administration with liabilities exceeding $28 million, placing regional independent record stores and other retailers under pressure as its buying group model comes to a halt.

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APRA AMCOS

The National Songbook To Honour Australia’s Most Significant Songs

by Paul Cashmere

APRA AMCOS and the National Film and Sound Archive have created The National Songbook, a new annual honour celebrating Australia’s most culturally significant songs.

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Rhythm and Vines

Rhythm And Vines To End Gisborne Era After 2026 Festival

by Paul Cashmere

Rhythm and Vines has announced its 2026 edition will be the final festival held at Waiohika Estate in Gisborne, ending a 24 year tradition before beginning a new chapter.

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Someday I'll Have Money Mike Rudd

Spectrum Legend Mike Rudd Subject of New Documentary Someday I’ll Have Money

by Paul Cashmere

Independent filmmaker Chris Franklin has released “Someday I’ll Have Money,” a new 40-minute documentary exploring Mike Rudd, Spectrum, and the enduring legacy of their 1971 number one hit “I’ll Be Gone.”

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APRA Art Music Awards 2026

2026 Art Music Awards Finalists Announced With Aviva Endean And Mindy Meng Wang Leading Nominations

by Paul Cashmere

Aviva Endean and Mindy Meng Wang lead the finalists for the 2026 Art Music Awards with three nominations each ahead of the August ceremony in Melbourne.

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Red Hot Summer Australian Crawl Men At Work

Red Hot Summer Tour Hunter Valley Show Sells Out As Demand Continues Across 2026 Run

by Paul Cashmere

The Hunter Valley stop of the 2026 Red Hot Summer Tour at Roche Estate has sold out, becoming the fourth capacity event ahead of Australian Crawl’s long-awaited reunion and Men At Work’s return to the same bill.

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