Lars Brandle

The live music industry got a lump of coal in its stocking last Christmas. This year’s outlook is no different. With the Delta, and now Omicron, variants threatening to put a downer on live…

Australia’s music community has been crippled by the pandemic. The industry knows it, artists know it, and, based on the findings of a new report, most Australians know it. New researched conducted…

The 2021 Quick As Thieves marathon raced past expectations.Held Nov. 26 in south Melbourne, this year’s fun run raked-in more than $600,000, well ahead of the $500,000 fundraising target and more…

Mushroom Group’s split with The Harbour Agency is a bum note for a once-great business, though its golden years were admittedly long ago. That’s the opinion of Sam Righi, the longtime former Managing…

Inside out, the independent U.K. music and entertainment PR agency, is setting up shop in Australia. Announced Wednesday (Dec. 8), the new affiliate is led by Lucy Baker, who takes the reins as Head…

TikTok put the chaos of 2020 behind it to gather more than 1 billion users to its platform this year. Many were glued to clips soundtracked by Masked Wolf and The Kid LAROI. The breakthrough Aussie…

Mushroom Group has cut ties with The Harbour Agency. Harbour, established in late 1978 to “meet the market needs for a professional music booking agency,” has, until now, worked alongside…

“We’ll do one more just to cover ourselves.” Paul McCartney’s final word in Peter Jackson’s three-part documentary on The Beatles could be dismissed as a throwaway line, but listen closer and it’s…

The virtual ARIA Awards accumulated 1.7 million views in the seven days since its live stream on YouTube, according to data shared Friday by ARIA, with The Kid Laroi generating the lion’s share of…

Award-winning British studio professional Olga Fitzroy will take the mic next week for a special Women in Music Production masterclass. Fitzroy, who has worked with the likes of Coldplay, Dua Lipa,…

When magic happens, don’t waste it. And in the right environment, there's a good chance it happens again. Consider the unlikely alliance of Pnau and Elton John, who came together for 2012’s Good…

The Kid LAROI was a fully-grown beast on Spotify in 2021, finished the year with one of the most-streamed songs on planet and hi-jacking the ears of Australian users. The Sydney-raised, Los…