Christie Eliezer

1 week ago | themusic.com.au | Christie Eliezer

REPRIEVE FOR SUNSHINE COAST FESTIVAL SITE? It may not be over for the Comiskey Group’s 2023 plan to build a state-of-the-art 150-hectare music festival site called Coochin Fields on the Sunshine Coast. On April 22, the project was dealt a blow when the State Assessment and Referral Agency (SARA) advised it did not support the proposal. But there is a possibility the Queensland Government might step in.

1 week ago | themusic.com.au | Christie Eliezer

More The Seekers On May 1 this year, 8,122 musicians gathered with their stringed instruments at Market Square in the Polish town of Wroclaw and set a Guinness World Record for playing Hey Joe simultaneously and making up the largest guitar ensemble. Among them were Adelaide expatriate Orianthi (Richie Sambora, Prince, Michael Jackson) and one-time Bob Marley guitarist Al Anderson. The Wroclaw event is for guitars, but those toting ukuleles, mandolins and bass guitars are also welcome.

2 weeks ago | themusic.com.au | Christie Eliezer

Facial recognition technology that allows patrons at concerts and festivals to grab-and-go at beverages and food outlets and get back to the show in quick time. A new generation of virtually invisible holographic screens with such astounding clarity and definition that holograms of rock stars could be a regular occurrence at events, along with virtual meet-and-greets backstage. More personalised use of stadium seats.

2 weeks ago | themusic.com.au | Christie Eliezer

More Led Zeppelin The trick to writing effective songs is to put them in a minor key, because they’re usually associated with sadness, brooding and self-examination. Songwriters will also tell you to use harmonisation, keep it slow to create more dynamic movement, and throw in something unpredictable to connect more with the listener. When you have a sad intro riff to draw the listener in immediately and take them into the reel, then all the better. Here are six examples.

3 weeks ago | themusic.com.au | Christie Eliezer

More Kylie Minogue Australian acts were the eighth most-streamed artists in the first quarter of 2025. They were outranked by those from the US, UK, Canada, South Korea, Germany, France and Puerto Rico. This is according to the latest data from US-based research company Luminate’s Export Power Score, which evaluates a country’s ability to export music globally. Aussie names were the second most popular in the US market—the biggest in the world—after Canada and before the UK.