The Industry Observer

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When the Sailor Jerry Rolling Stone Australia Awards roll into Sydney this March, the brightest talent in the land will walk the red carpet. Some

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It’s the end of an era for bricks-and-mortar music retail in far north Queensland, as a raft of Sanity stores close their doors. All three Sanity

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Hillsong is now under investigation for hosting a youth event that went viral this week for clearly breaching COVID-19 restrictions. Just as the

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A Hillsong Youth event was slammed earlier today for being allowed to go ahead on the premise that it’s a religious event, despite COVID related

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When New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet activated new restrictions on the weekend, it included a ban on singing and dancing in hospitality

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Rolling Stone Australia have announced the nominees for the 2022 Sailor Jerry Rolling Stone Australia Awards, with Genesis Owusu and Amy Shark

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2021 was a year like no other, a rollercoaster of lockdowns, optimism, of future wins, and golden heroes. It was also the year of the youngsters:

2 min read 2022-01-12 13:42:52

It’s Groundhog Day again in Victoria, where strict new COVID-19 rules come into play that include a ban on indoor dance floors.From late

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In an bid to demonstrate the unsustainable nature of NSW’s current system of reactive COVID-19 measures, the Sydney based producer, songwriter, and

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Neill Duncan, the inspirational sax player and musical educator who lost an arm to cancer and continued to play with a specially designed

3 min read 2022-01-11 09:51:35

GAYLE’s viral TikTok hit ‘abcdefu’ is officially the “biggest song in the world,” according to Billboard. The track has hit No. 1 on both

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It’s a New Year, which on a typical calendar brings fresh energy and optimism. Thanks to the Omicron variant and some strong-handed tactics from

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John Legend has reportedly become the latest big name artist to sell the rights to their recording catalogue for a sizeable sum. As per Bloomberg,

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Another chapter is written to the story of Men At Work’s ‘Down Under,’ as a banging remix of the ‘80s favorite cracks the U.K. Top 40. Gold

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Veteran singer and Do-Re-Mi leader Deborah Conway, Kiss frontman Gene Simmons, and award-winning songwriter Diane Warren are among the 120-plus