Christie Eliezer

NEW AUSSIE MUSIC SHOW ALLTOGETHER NOW FOR LATE 2018 Endemol Shine Australia has begun casting for a new Australian version of the UK format All Together Now. It will launch on the Seven Network…

Entertainment Assist, the charity established to raise awareness about mental health in the Australian entertainment industry, is conducting further data collection on the issue. In 2015 it released…

When Sampa The Great s album Birds and the BEE9 was last week announced as the winner of the 13th Australian Music Prize (AMP) It s quite possible she may not have been that surprised. You see, the…

After nearly ten years, Apple is killing off its iTunes LP initiative. The tech giant has advised in an internal email no more submissions will be accepted from this month, and it will be scrapped by…

INAUGURAL MELTDOWN ANNOUNCES FULL LINEUPS The inaugural alt and heavy music festival Meltdown has announced the full lineup for its three dates (May 12, 19 and 26). Seven acts - Gay Paris (pictured…

Jeff St John, the veteran Australian singer-songwriter whose hits included Big Time Operator and Teach Me How To Fly , passed away in his home in Perth. He was a month shy of turning 72. Born in…

AC/DC TRACK IN TRAILER FOR REBOOTED ROSEANNE US network ABC is using AC/DC s 1977 track Whole Lotta Rosie in the trailer for its reboot of Roseanne Barr’s hit sitcom Roseanne, which airs in America…

The Australian Women s Music Awards were unveiled at the Brisbane Powerhouse yesterday. Speaking at the event were awards director Vicki Gordon, Katie Noonan and Christine Anu. The awards have been…

Dean McLachlan, general manager of the Mushroom Group s new imprint Bloodlines, is now pulling double duty as creative manager of Mushroom Music Publishing. In this expanded role, McLachan is charged…

It s a familiar story. In 2011, 16-year-old Reece Mastin won X Factor Australia, notched up a series of hit singles and two #1 pop albums which went platinum, and toured to thousands. As Mastin puts…

AMAZON SAYS PRIME MUSIC STILL COMING MID-2018 Amazon, which launched in Australia last December, has issued a statement to repeat that Prime subscription service which includes it’s Prime Music…

At the weekend, young NSW-based country music singer songwriter Jason Owen woke startled to find some strange and certainly hateful and homophobic posts on his Facebook and Twitter feed. Satan has…