Lars Brandle

Raise a glass for TIO, if that’s your thing and you’ve ignored dry July. After five years, the music industry title is absorbed into TMN.

Among the board members are Darcus Beese OBE, former president of Island Records, while YMU managing director Iain Watt will chair meetings.

The independent concerts giant expands its team ahead of what should be a “bumper season of concerts” across 2022 and 2023.

Successful applicants will learn the ropes with a mentor over a five-month span, during which time they'll enjoy expert industry training.

Ex-Social Family Records label manager Nardia Drayton launches Rock This Country, at a time when country music from the parts is on the climb.

"To have the love we have in Australia is unbelievable," the funksters tell TMN after receiving plaques for gold certifications.

“This long overdue change will help preserve and protect iconic recordings from Aotearoa," says Recorded Music NZ CEO Jo Oliver.

It's the "COVID that hit our Aussie music industry in 2015," says Michael Chugg, though few of us are talking about it.

For promoters, a new set of problems in this free-wheeling live space. TIO gets a feel of the pandemic hangover.

High Score is a forum on that space where games and music converge, boasting a program of keynotes, panels, workshops and more.

With Vanessa Picken heading over to major-label land, a new structure is implemented at Comes With Fries, TMN can reveal.

"Proof" blasts to No. 1 on the U.S. albums chart, for BTS’ sixth leader, extending a record for Korean acts.