Luke Girgis

On Friday we announced that JXN signed to City Pop records and released his new single. What we didn’t mention was that this release happened a week before it should have. All the plans and set up…

What a wild statement. NSW Liberal government, the party who were single-handedly responsible for killing Sydney’s nightlife with pro-property developer “lockout” laws could actually be the party to…

It's 2021, we are obviously beyond the "it's important to do digital marketing" conversation. We have now entered the period of, "what is the actual point of it?" As marketers in the music industry,…

We have just released a Rolling Stone Australia NFT of our cover with Tones And I, and it's available until 12pm today. We're the first in the world to release a Rolling Stone NFT and we are…

Twitter has announced two massive new products to rollout this year: Super Follows: The ability for artists to charge their followers for access to additional content. Think maybe, Patreon?…

After reading the headline "Jessica Mauboy leaves Sony Music to sign to Warner Music Australia", it raised instant alarm bells. A war is coming. This news comes off the back of Paul Harris leaving…

Over the weekend I was given an invite to the new social network Clubhouse (shoutout to Justin L. Hunte for the hook up). For those who aren’t familiar, Clubhouse is an audio app that's still in beta…

The biggest news everyone woke up to on Tuesday was Spotify boosting artist music more in the algorithm in exchange for a lower royalty rate. This essentially means, an artist or label picks their…

Ticket reseller Viagogo has been fined $7 million for misleading Australian consumers. ACCC Chairm Rod Sims said Viagogo's business practices were unacceptable. "Today’s $7 million penalty sends a…

Working from home is business as usual for many artist managers, publicists and music industry contractors. However for record labels, publishers, agents, media and promoters, this is new arrangement…

First of all, I love the ARIAs, it's a celebration of our talented artists and a night during which the whole industry comes together to drink and have fun. Who could hate that? The Industry Observer…

Scott Galloway has revisited his 2018 Spotify prediction that it will join Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon as one of the biggest tech companies in the world. However, it hasn't happened yet.…