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Lunar New Year 2025, Parramatta.
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Chinese New Year in Sydney

Celebrations have been held across the city to usher in the start of the year of the snake.

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Spotify is silencing Australian music, but it’s not the only culprit

Australian music is dwindling in popularity and policymakers are covering their ears.

  • Ben Eltham
Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard with The Frames.

‘We weren’t the next big thing’: Irish singer-songwriter’s unusual path to success

Glen Hansard began his career in the music industry as a street busker.

  • Bill Wyman
Going nuts for Nutbush.

This unique festival has Nutbush, dress-ups and the best of Oz music

Landing solo at this festival hundreds of kilometres from the nearest major city should be intimidating. But there’s too much to like.

  • Melissa Mason
Live Nation stages the Splendour in the Grass and Falls festivals in Australia. Skeggs performs at Splendour in 2023.

Splendour in the Grass cancelled for second year in a row

Last year organisers announced the festival was “taking the year off”, but Splendour will not be back in 2025.

  • Nell Geraets
Neil Young famously wrote Southern Man and Alabama about racism in the south.

Neil Young pulls out of Glastonbury over BBC involvement

The singer said he had been booked to play the festival this summer but objected to the broadcaster’s “corporate control”.

  • Anita Singh
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Beyond the Valley music festival.

Festival-goer overdoses on first day of Victorian pill-testing trial

Paramedics were called to the Beyond the Valley festival after a man in his 20s suffered a drug overdose.

  • Rachael Dexter and Marta Pascual Juanola
Pill testing will be allowed at about a dozen NSW music festivals from 2025 in a major trial of the service.

Pill testing to go ahead at NSW summer music festivals

After years of calls for pill-testing services, a 12-month trial in time for the summer music festival season in early 2025 will be unveiled on Thursday.

  • Michael McGowan
The Bluefest crowd in 2022.

In Bluesfest we trust? The art, and cost, of Peter Noble’s backflip

At a time when many music festivals are doing it tough, comments by Bluesfest founder Peter Noble have done no favours to the sector.

  • Karl Quinn
The organisers of alternative music festival Good Things have been accused of ignoring allegations of men groping women, filming up women’s skirts and abusing those who turned down their advances at events around the country.

Good Things festival accused of ignoring groping, upskirting and harassment reports

One email to organisers includes claims of witnessing “men filming up girls’ skirts the whole day” and seeing people being groped.

  • Courtney Kruk

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/music-festivals-1lzf