Lars Brandle

Awards season is back. And if you’re in living in Australia, the glory is all yours. Last Wednesday night (April 28), the industry gathered for the APRA Music Awards on Sydney’s Darling Harbour, the…

Australia’s struggling legion of backstage crew and industry professionals reached out in a big way for help from Support Act’s MusicKeeper and CrewKeeper cash grants. According to the music industry…

Sometimes, the darkest days provide glittering opportunities. As the live entertainment and hospitality industries awaken from an enforced slumber, one Australian startup moved into a sweet,…

Biordi Music are going global via a new partnership with Virgin Music Label and Artist Services Australia. Through the new deal, Biordi Music’s roster will get plugged into the Virgin Music network,…

Midnight Oil's long-overdue return to the studio and the stage was celebrated at the APRA Music Awards with one of the biggest prizes on offer, the APRA Song of the Year. The Oils took out the…

The tastes of music fans in Australia’s big three cities are captured and ranked by new charts published from today by Apple Music.The streaming music giant launches its City Charts, a suit of Top 25…

Michael Gudinski finally got his U.S. No. 1. The late Mushroom Group Chairman and founder is tops on Billboard Magazine’s newly-published International Power Players List for 2021, in recognition of…

Audiophiles, Qobuz is here for you. The France-based high-resolution digital music platform arrived this month in Australia and New Zealand, some two years after a major push into the U.S. market.…

Mia Rodriguez is now a major label artist. The indie-pop superstar-in-waiting has struck a global deal with U.S.-based Atlantic Records, through a partnership with City Pop Records. Mia, as she’s…

A rollercoaster couple months for Bluesfest has hit a smooth patch with the music festival named as a finalist for Pollstar’s Music Festival of the Decade. The annual Byron Bay event is the only…

The floodgates have opened on the streaming-model debate in the U.K., where many of the biggest names in music are now lobbying government for change. The likes of Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Noel…

Live Nation Entertainment, still reeling from the pandemic and the global shutdown of live entertainment, is now in the crosshairs of U.S. Congress. On Monday, five members of Congress issued a…