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Gladys Berejiklian’s Footloosian music policy has angered the music community nationally, and none more so than Laneway founder Danny Rogers who calls the archaic Liberal policy “preposterous”.

Ticketmaster has acquired Moshtix giving the Live Nation owns ticketing giant new revenues from Groovin’ The Moo, Oxford Art Factory, Supanova, and the Australian Turf Club.

Jody Brewster, the 14 year old son of The Angels legend Rick Brewster, joined his dad’s band at Red Hot Summer in Hobart on Sunday to perform The Angels classic ‘Take A Long Line’.

The Night Time Industries Association has delivered a five point plan to New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejeklian to try and focus her away from her ‘Footloose’ philosophy.

Major new titles coming this week from: Drake, Avril Lavigne, Heart (Live), Millencolin, RY X, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Florida Georgia Line, India Arie, Kiss (GH), The Beasts (of Bourbon), Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier, The Cat Empire, Methyl Ethel, Betty Who and the WOMAD 2019 & Triple J’s Hottest 100 Vol.26 compilations.

Live Performance Australia Chief Executive Evelyn Richard has sent a public letter to the Premier of New South Wales Gladys Berejiklian to urge the Liberal Party leader to think before she acts on music policy.

The Vanda & Young songwriting contest is happening again with Australian songwriters invited to submit songs for the worlds largest cash prize in the songwriting content … $50,000.

The music industry of Australia will gather to support live music in NSW which has come under threat with its archaic ‘Footloose’-like policy aimed to destroy the live music scene of New South Wales.

Suzi Quatro has written most of the songs on her next album ‘No Control’ with her son Richard Tuckey.

The Grammy Awards for 2019 have been announced. Here is the complete winners list:

Series one of Red Hot Summer, with headliner Jimmy Barnes, concluded after 10 sold out shows on the weekend. Next … Suzi Quatro will continue Series two starting in the Barossa Valley this weekend.

Third season The X Factor winner Reece Mastin is making a big impression from his performances on the Red Hot Summer tour of 2019.

The Mountain Sounds Festival on the Central Coast for next weekend has been cancelled due to what the organisers call “the Liberal party’s war on festivals.”

Emily Wurramara, Tia Gostelow, Sahara Beck, Cub Sport, Holiday Party, The Jungle Giants, San Mei, Amy Shark are just some of the names nominated for the 2019 Queensland Music Awards.

Cirque Du Soleil has acquired Australian company The Works Entertainment, the company behind one of the most successful tours of 2018 globally, The Illusionists.

Indigenous Arts & Culture Festival, the Boomerang Festival has its biggest line-up to date with Baker Boy, Archie Roach and Yothu Yindi & The Treaty Project to perform for 2019.

The APRA Song of the Year short list has once again revealed an incredible list of homegrown talent.

Major new titles coming this week from: Brian Cadd, Nina Nesbitt, Girlpool, Busted, Broods, The Wiggles, Luis Fonsi, Billie Eilish, Within Temptation, Ian Brown, Harriet Brown and White Lies.

The Baby Animals formed in Sydney in 1989. In 2019 they will release their first Greatest Hits record and tour Australia to mark their 30th anniversary.

Qudos Arena in Sydney had over one million punters through the turnstyles in 2018.

Helen Marcou and Ian ‘Quincy’ McLean of Bakehouse Studios, Melbourne have received the Order of Australia award in the Australia Day Honours.

Major new titles coming this week from: Backstreet Boys, Bring Me the Horizon, Steve Hackett, Mirusia, The Dandy Warhols, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Rudimental, Rival Sons, Skunk Anansie (live), Julia Michaels, Jack & Jack, Vangelis, Mental as Anything (live), Swervedriver, The Wiggles (on the 31st), Trixie Mattell and the 2019 Grammy Nominees album.

The Brunswick Music Festival has revealed its 2019 line-up.

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke says he has no intention of attending the induction of his band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Major new titles coming this week from: Tommy Emmanuel, Christina Perri, Swizz Beatz, Randy Houser, Katherine Jenkins, Taking Back Sunday (GH) and a bunch Australian Country Music compilations.

More Australian acts including the one we were all watching in 2018, Perth’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, will showcase at SXSW 2019.

The Australian Festivals Association has started a dialogue with state governments to work together to make music events safer.

The Angels will play both Classical and Rock when they start their shows for 2019.

‘The Greatest Showman’ was the only album to sell over one million copies in the USA during 2018. ‘A Star Is Born’, at number two, didn’t even come close.

The Greatest Showman brings in the New Year as 2019’s first Number 1 album, extending its record as the album with the most chart-topping weeks this century.