Lars Brandle

Despite the challenges of the pandemic, the next-generation of Australian artists has arrived, fully formed. Of the 102 acts shortlisted in the 2021 ARIA Awards nominations, 43 are first-time…

Australian Women in Music Awards and Music Victoria are in the hunt for major honours of their own. Announced today (Oct. 19), AWMA is one of three finalists in the category for Best Initiative to…

Nettwerk Music Group is expanding its presence in these parts with the appointment of Dan Medland to represent the independent music company in Australia and New Zealand. Based in Sydney, Medland…

The longest lockdown on the planet is about to lift, and Victorians will soon find themselves breathing the fresh air that comes with freedom. For the live industry, however, the road ahead remains…

ARIA has revoked the Icon Award bestowed to Denis Handlin. In a one-sentence email distributed Friday afternoon, the trade body announced it would rescind its honour to Handlin, the former ARIA…

Staff across the entertainment sector are experiencing poorer mental health, heaping onto industry professionals’ existing high rates of anxiety, depression, isolation, suicide, and other mental…

While the music industry absorbs a major ABC study into bullying, discrimination, and misconduct at one of the country's three major labels, Support Act steps up to develop a new level of training…

Despite progressive movements to address the streaming industry’s “value gap,” the gender pay gap and a lack of diversity in board rooms across the creative sector, structural racism “continues to be…

With Christmas fast approaching, the music industry would be hard-pressed to score a better present than a healthy live scene. Fast-working COVID testing kits just might be the perfect…

Kylie Minogue still has the Brits spinning around, a new study has found. The ex-pat Aussie pop star is one of Top 20 most-played female artists of the 21st Century in the U.K., according to airplay…

As Australia’s music industry digests the findings of a major investigation into Sony Music Australia’s toxic workplace culture, calls are intensifying for Denis Handlin to be stripped of his many…

Shouse, the Melbourne electronic duo of Ed Service and Jack Madin, is shimmying to a first-time appearance in the U.K. Top 20 with ‘Love Tonight.’ Originally created in 2015 and released back in…