Most street press have been centred around music and gig guides, but subjects have also included movies, fashion, and food.
[2] Forte was started in 1991 by Anton Ballard and Robert Bufton as a regional gig guide, similar to Beat.
[6] 3D World was purchased by Street Press Media in 2009, and they expanded to Melbourne and Brisbane in 2010[7] before closing the print edition the following year.
[citation needed] Sydney also had On The Street, which began in 1981 before its staff led a mass walkout and started a rival publication Drum Media in 1990.
[10][11] A similar story occurred when Sydney's Revolver closed in 2003, after six years of publication, and its staff created a new magazine Evolver.
[33] Starting in 1996, Pulse NT was published in Darwin and called themselves, "The Northern Territory's first street mag: local, national, international music and reviews.
[35][34] In 2006 the owners of Inpress formed Street Press Australia and took over The Drum Media and Time Off, before merging them all together in 2013 as The Music.
[36] Alongside the new name came a smaller A4 size and a less frequent publication as The Music went monthly, shifting their focus away from being a weekly local gig guide.
Instead they joined Beat, The Brag, Rave, dB, and X-Press under the banner of the National Street Press in 2009, but the companies remained separate.
They downsized from their tabloid style magazine to A4 glossy in 2004 and later rebranded to scenestr in 2014, also changing from weekly to a monthly schedule.
[51][7] By 2020 no titles reported CAB audited data anymore, and instead displayed rounded numbers on their websites or inside each magazine, if at all.
[citation needed] scenestr reported in October 2021 they were the "largest – and only remaining – street press group in Australia", and had returned to printing copies of their magazine in mid-2020 in five states and territories "where COVID and prevailing conditions have permitted".