Christie Eliezer

The sixth global Music Cities Convention, to be held in Melbourne on April 19 and 20, will have the theme It takes a village to make a music city: Music Policy from top to bottom." Within this, there…

TWO IN COURT OVER MEREDITH MUSIC BAD DRUGS Two men, aged 23 and 24, faced the Geelong Magistrates Court this week over an alleged involvement in a round of dodgy drugs which had nine patrons needing…

The archives expand over 40 years and we have never thrown anything away. The number is limitless and very extensive. INXS creative adviser Christopher M. Murphy is providing TMN with an exclusive…

The board of the Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR) has been joined by three new members. They are Katie Besgrove, lawyer and owner of Barely Dressed Records; Lorrae McKenna,…

Sony/ATV Music Publishing has extended its worldwide deal with British hit songwriter, artist and producer Jamie Scott. Scott has been behind some of the biggest international hits in Australia in…

Dom Alessio, who last week announced he was leaving the hosting of triple j s popular week night show Home Hosed after eight years, is joining music export body Sounds Australia as a digital export…

Australia was one of the first markets outside the United States to embrace R.E.M. So when the band from the sleepy southern college town of Athens, Georgia, released Automatic For The People in the…

Apple is later today today expected to announce that it is buying UK music recognition smartphone app Shazam, for $US400 million. The $50 million-a-year British app, launched in 2009, was an instant…

MUSHROOM S CHRIS MAUND ON MERLIN BOARD Chris Maund (pictured) of the Mushroom Group will be Australia s new representative on the board of global rights agency Merlin which negotiates digital rights…

The music industry has responded favourably to moves by the Federal Government has extended copyright safe harbour provisions to a range of parties aside from just commercial internet service…

The tributes started flooding in minutes after AC/DC posted on their website that Malcolm Young succumbed to his five year battle with dementia yesterday in Sydney. He was 64. Tom Morello: "#1…

Mushroom Music Publishing and UNIFIED Music Publishing have revealed that they recently acquired Amy Shark s publishing for Australian and New Zealand.The two companies joint ventures include Vance…