They peaked in popularity during the 1970s and '80s, but currently, there are still several national titles, including local editions of Rolling Stone and the classical music-focused Limelight, among others.
[1][2] Go-Set was founded by Philip Frazer, and is considered to have laid the foundations for the Australian music press industry.
RAM republished articles from English magazine New Musical Express (NME) alongside new Australian content.
The popularity and frequency of the street press are credited with killing off the paid weekly music magazines during the 1990s, with Juke and RAM falling to their free competitors Beat and Drum Media.
In 2022 the remaining national titles are Mixdown and scenestr, while Canberra's BMA has become Australia's longest-running street press after Beat moved completely online.
Juice, which included articles reprinted from Spin, was launched in March 1993 but closed its doors in 2003 after circulation dropped in its last three years from a reported 25,000 to only 6,000.
ABC Radio 24 Hours was rebranded Limelight in 2003 and has continued to publish regularly about classical music.
Online music websites Mess+Noise, The Vine, FasterLouder and inthemix each had their own following, but were either merged or shut down as they were assimilated into Junkee Media.
The following are in print: Of those, NME Australia is owned by Singapore based music company BandLab Technologies and is a spin off from the English magazine,[29] while Rolling Stone Australia is licensed from the American company Penske Media Corporation.
[30] The original run of Rolling Stone Australia ended in 2018 but was relaunched again in 2020 by The Brag Media, publishers of The Music Network website.