Music Network

The nine albums shortlisted for the 9th Coopers AMP were unveiled at the Shortlisted event, held on Sunday at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne. As is often the case with the AMP, it is a…

Two leading music PR agencies, Paul Piticco’s Secret Service Public Relations and Stacey Piggott’s 15-year old Two Fish Out Of Water, have today merged under the Secret Service name. Piggott will now…

U2 made news this week when it raised US$3 million in 36 hours for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. In a partnership with (RED) and Bank of America, the group offered their…

You know how you tried to record songs from your favourite BDO act onto your smartphone? Well, chances are that recording will be mostly white noise and crowd din, but luckily for you, music…

A proposal to knock down Melbourne live music venue The Palace Theatre’s building and turn it into high rise apartments and a five-star hotel has been rejected by the Department of Transport,…

Spotify’s catalogue of over 20 million songs will now be available to Last.fm’s 55 million registered users, as the two companies strengthen their relationship. From today, Last.fm users will be able…

Cooking Vinyl Australia has signed singer songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke and Melbourne trio Calling All Cars. Kate Miller-Heidke inked a worldwide services deal (except for the United States) for her…

Last March when Bruce Springsteen was in Sydney, he stopped into Studio 301 to cut two tracks: High Hopes, a song from LA-based Havalinas, and a cover of The Saints’ jangly Just Like Fire Would –…

Music industry veteran Lyor Cohen and his new company 300 Entertainment have entered into a partnership with Twitter in order to find, sign and develop musical talent through the platform. Cohen…

Deezer will close its Australian office, effective tomorrow, with Thomas Heymann – who heads up operations in Australia and New Zealand – leaving the company. The streaming company will continue to…

If you were to ask who has the smoothest voice in the underground right now you’d be hard pressed to get past London’s Sampha Sisay. He’s had a busy year softly serenading crowds around the globe…

A group of mostly Brisbane musicians have released the single Nightingale Floor for the Orangutan Land Trust. The idea is to highlight how orangutan habitats in South East Asia are being destroyed…