Lars Brandle

The ACCC, Australia’s competition authority, is keen to enforce tougher conditions on APRA as the rights society seeks reauthorisation for its music licensing arrangements. Earlier this week, the…

Songwriters and producers, those brains behind the hits, the unseen sages who made the soundtrack to your life, will be recognized with their very own charts. Billboard is expanding its suite of U.S.…

Emily Collins is the new chair of the Australian Music Industry Network. Collins, who serves as MusicNSW’s managing director, takes the reins at AMIN following its 2019 annual general meeting, held…

French Montana is the first big international performer announced for DRIP World, a new multi-date hip-hop festival which plans to visit both coasts later this year. The Morocco-born, Bronx-raised…

He’s got 99 problems but cash ain’t one. Jay-Z’s on a throne of his own, having earned the tag as hip-hop’s first billionaire. The New York rapper’s empire, which spans music, art, property, fashion…

Almost two decades after Apple presented its panacea to a dying record industry, iTunes, the computer giant is finally unplugging its famous download store. Buried in a stream of corporate updates…

Vance Joy, Peking Duk, Regurgitator, Jack River and Midnight Oil are among a cadre of musicians and industry professionals powering a new, renewable energies campaign. The project, entitled FEAT, or…

Is music your favourite subject at school, is your music teacher an inspiration, a total legend? Now you can pay it back. Nominations are now open for the ARIA Music Teacher of the Year Award, an…

One Electric Day is evolving into one electric month as the Aussie rock fest hits the road for the first time. Established in 2013 as a one-day show in Melbourne, One Electric Day returns this year…

A week hasn’t passed since Paul Fletcher MP was appointed as the new Minister for the Arts, but APRA AMCOS and its CEO Dean Ormston are hunkering down to business with some confidence the politician…

imbi the girl is a rising star, receiving high praise from Triple J, U.S. music industry “bible” Billboard and a contract with Select Music. A former Triple J Unearthed feature artist, the Sydney…

Tributes are pouring in for Malcolm Black, the pioneering New Zealand-born music lawyer, executive, artist and APRA board member who passed away earlier this month after a battle with cancer. He was…