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Paul Kelly has just released a song who wrote decades ago.

Paul Kelly’s latest song sat in a shed for 40 years. It was in good company

The Australian musician has released a song he recorded well before he came to fame – he is among many of the world’s biggest stars to have given old songs a new life.

  • Michael Dwyer

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Spenny reaches out to fans as he performs at ONEFOUR’s album launch event at Sydney Dragway in Eastern Creek, in Sydney’s west on Thursday night.

OneFour’s message to the police: ‘We’re different now. We’re good people’

Rap group OneFour is about to embark on a tour around the country in support of their debut album. The only place they won’t perform? Their hometown of Sydney.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Spicks and Specks’ original crew (from left) Alan Brough, Adam Hills and Myf Warhurst.

The stories you haven’t heard from the ABC’s iconic quiz show

For Spicks and Specks’ 20th anniversary, stars Adam Hills, Myf Warhurst and Alan Brough reflect on its history and their unique “three-part harmony”.

  • Louise Rugendyke
Sydney DIY trio Egoism: Olive Rush, Scout Eastment, and Adam Holmes.

From the inner west to the world, Sydney’s buzziest band is going places

With their debut album And Go Nowhere, Egoism are going somewhere fast.

  • Jules LeFevre
Neil Finn, Crowded House

Something so strong pulls Neil Finn back to the open road, even 40 years on

Crowded House will headline the Red Hot Summer Tour this October and November.

  • Robert Moran
Wet Kiss

Home-grown hits: the best new Australian music to hear this month

Including anarchic rock from the country’s best live band and globe-spanning club sounds from Mount Druitt’s finest.

  • Nick Buckley, Jules LeFevre and Robert Moran
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Musician Paul Bender is battling Spotify to get music falsely uploaded under his name off the platform.

This musician was getting millions of streams. Then fake tracks appeared under his name

It’s alarmingly easy to upload music to Spotify and other big streamers under someone else’s name – but a lot harder to get them down.

  • Michael Dwyer
Jan Gawel, chief executive of Hair & Beauty Australia, says many salons are unaware of their obligation to pay a licensing fee to play music to customers.

Hair salons bristle over background music licence fees

Businesses pay a combined $132 million a year to play music for customers and employees, and could be taken to court if they don’t cough up.

  • Madeleine Heffernan
Guy Blackman and Ben O’Connor, owners of record label Chapter Music, surrounded by decades of indie ephemera.

They’ve defined the local indie underground for decades. Now a Chapter closes

More than 33 years since launching Chapter Music, founders Guy Blackman and Ben O’Connor are celebrating the end of an era.

  • Brodie Lancaster
Spacey Jane, featuring Caleb Harper, Peppa Lane, Kieran Lama and Ashton Hardman-Le Cornu. The Perth band are back with a new album and a national tour.

‘We have our sights set on world domination’: How Spacey Jane became Australia’s biggest band

After years of gruelling hustle, their management told them to take a break. Now Spacey Jane is back with a new album and big plans.

  • Jules LeFevre

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