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Is Live Nation killing Australia’s live music scene?

When Splendour in the Grass fell over on Wednesday morning due to what organisers called “unexpected events”, it gave us an insight into what many in the industry had been warning for years. The Australian music industry is in significant strife.Now, it’s just official. One of Australia’s longest-running and world-renowned festivals, attracting the likes of Kanye West in 2011 and Outkast in 2014, has sadly reached a point that may […]

todayMarch 31, 2024 5

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Akademiks Celebrates ‘Killing’ Careers With ‘Pandademiks’ Maybach

Akademiks just got a new Maybach and he sees it as a tangible representation of the rappers whose careers he “killed.”Taking to social media on Friday (March 22), the polarizing media personality shared a video of his latest whip while taunting artists in the background.“Just got a new delivery,” he says in the clip. “Pandademiks is here. Stop playing man. New purchase. I needed something to celebrate violating these rappers. […]

todayMarch 23, 2024 5

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Forest Fires Rage in Central Chile, Killing 99 People

Santiago, Chile —  Firefighters wrestled Sunday with massive forest fires that broke out in central Chile two days earlier, as officials extended curfews in cities most heavily affected by the blazes and said at least 99 people were killed. The fires have been burning with the highest intensity around the city of Vina del Mar, where a famous botanical garden founded in 1931 was destroyed by the flames Sunday. At […]

todayFebruary 5, 2024

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NSW police accused of ‘killing’ music festivals by charging excessive fees | Music festivals

New South Wales police have been accused of “price gouging” and operating a “rort” that threatens the viability of music festivals, by charging tens of thousands of dollars more than their counterparts in other states to patrol the events.The Greens MP Cate Faehrmann told NSW parliament this week that a recent festival that played across three states paid $107,852 for policing for 16,000 people in NSW, but just $45,000 for […]

todayNovember 25, 2023 4

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Israel admits killing its own people at music festival on October 7 – Doha News

The Israeli regime has used the October 7 attack by Hamas as an excuse to continue its relentless bombardment of the enclave which has so far killed more than 12,000 Palestinians. Israeli forces killed some of their own citizens during the Hamas attack on October 7, according to an Israeli police investigation looking into the Nova music festival near the Gaza border, Haaretz reported. An Israeli combat helicopter was dispatched from […]

todayNovember 19, 2023

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UK musicians say Brexit is killing their European careers

01:01 With a European fanbase built up over nearly two decades, Erik Stein of UK-based musical duo Cult With No Name ought to be happy. But the ongoing fallout from Brexit means he's anything but content.Stein told CGTN: "We've had no offers to play Europe since Brexit, and it's not for want of trying. We were looking to make inroads into the European festival circuit but the rules are now […]

todayOctober 3, 2023 1

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Russians hit Chernihiv Music and Drama Theatre with missile, killing 7 civilians, including child, wounding 90

On the morning of 19 August, Russian troops hit the centre of Chernihiv, probably with a ballistic missile.  There are civilians killed and wounded. Source: Viacheslav Chaus, Head of the Chernihiv Oblast Military Administration; Suspilne Chernihiv; Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; President Volodymyr Zelenskyy; Ihor Klymenko, Minister of Internal Affairs; Ukraine’s Interior Ministry  Quote from Chaus: "The enemy attacked the centre of Chernihiv. Probably with a ballistic […]

todayAugust 19, 2023 8

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When the music stops: how the Taliban’s fear of art is killing Afghan culture | Global development

When the Taliban moved closer to Kabul in the early days of August 2021, a series of unusual advertisements flooded the shopping pages on Afghan social media. Musicians were putting their instruments and equipment – the tools of their trade – up for sale.Many were being offered for a fraction of what they were worth. Yet, even in a country with an immense love for music, there were few buyers. […]

todayAugust 15, 2023 5

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