COVID-19

In these strange days of lock-downs, long lines at Centrelink and a pause on regular life, it pays to pay it forward. Sydney’s fabled Studios 301 is doing just that with a novel initiative that helps…

We’re all stuck at home, but APRA is keeping the money moving. The PRO is paying live performance royalties early this year, to help its thousands of members afloat during these bleak times. Members…

Southern Cross Austereo (SCA), home to 84 stations across the country, including the Triple M and Hit Networks, has entered a voluntary suspension in an effort to accurately gauge the impact of the…

Q A is never an easy watch. It’s essential and necessary, and not to everyone’s taste. Like broccoli. If you made it to the end of Monday night’s episode, a special on the coronavirus pandemic, of…

The economic impacts of coronavirus are set to disproportionately impact the most vulnerable, and there’s a disturbing potential for corporate expansion at the cost of small businesses of high social…

Imagine there’s no live music. It’s easy if you try... With no end in sight for the current health crisis and strict, new directives crushing any hopes for staging concerts anytime soon, the live…

Working from home is business as usual for many artist managers, publicists and music industry contractors. However for record labels, publishers, agents, media and promoters, this is new arrangement…

FastForward's Australian run is the latest music industry conference affected by global concerns around COVID-19. Following the Australian Government's recommendations, Founder Chris Carey has made…

Federal Labor MP Tony Burke has penned an op-ed to the Morrison government to step in as the spread of COVID-19 is having disastrous affects on Australia's arts sector. 65,000 events have been…

Lucian Grainge, the most powerful man in the record business, has been hospitalised after contracting COVID-19, a respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus. The Universal Music Group chairman…