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PPCA and the Australia Council today announced five one-off recording grants of up for $15,000. Applications are open until December 9. “Recording can sometimes be a long and costly process. These…

Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) officially announced it has signed a global publishing deal with INXS. The deal, exclusively revealed in The Music Network last month, will see the band’s…

WAM CEO Wendy Were heading to Australia Council Wendy Were, CEO of Perth-based the West Australian Music Industry Association (WAM) is leaving the organization. She is joining the Australia Council…

Madonna’s MDNA Blu-Ray recalled in the U.S. All Blu-Ray copies of Madonna’s MDNA World Tour sold in the US after customers complained about problems with sound and visual quality. Interscope Records…

iHeartRadio pacts with Hoyts Hoyts cinema chain will launch its own iHeartRadio station in the near future via the music streaming service Ad News announced. ARN national digital director Kate Beddoe…

Kasey Chambers | Artist Matthew Ryan - May Day When I was seventeen, I took my first trip to Nashville. I had just landed in the country music capital of the world and I was extremely jetlagged and…

NSW’s boutique Festival of the Sun has enjoyed its fastest sell-out to date, with all 3,000 tickets bought in record time. According to Promoter Scott Mesiti, 85% of the tickets went within weeks of…

Sam Cromack | Ball Park Music Radiohead - Kid A It is partly due to the fact that it is an excellent record, but also largely due to the context in which it occurred. Radiohead had finished touring…

Justin Timberlake TKO SME Today, JT unleashed the second half of his 20/20 Experience set, and whereas the first volume was filled with difficult, twisting tunes that often breached the six-minute…

by Wayne Coyne I was very lucky that my older brothers all listened to The Beatles and stuff like that. The defining record that I can say still affects me now and affected me when I was eight years…

KE$ha | Artist Beastie Boys | License To Ill I remember very specifically hearing this for the first time. I love their irreverence, and they’re funny as fuck - they don’t give a fuck. It’s very much…

Marty Smiley | Channel [V] Presenter Michael Jackson - HIStory I was too young to watch and hear MJ’s rise to world domination as the King of Pop. So HIStory, when I was ten years old, was the best…