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123 Agency unveils team Booking agent Damon Costin unveiled the team of 123 Agency. Based initially in Melbourne, Costin tells us that the plan is to expand to other cities. Costin, the one time…

Havana Brown unveils track listing After selling 2.5 million singles from her debut EP When The Lights Go Out and two #1s on the American dance charts, Havana Brown wasn’t about to take the foot off…

Australia’s John Rash made global music producer for Bacardi Founder and director of Australian brand communications consultancy Brand New Sounds, John Rash, relocates to London to take over the…

Ford Fiesta strengthens partnership with Vevo Lift Ford Fiesta has partnered with MCM Media’s Vevo for its emerging artists program Vevo Lift. This month the featured act is pop-punksters Tonight…

Machine Translations opens a new door Spunk will release Melbourne artist Machine Translations’ (aka J. Walker) new record The Bright Door on October 11 – his first in seven years. In that time, he…

Matthew Evans appointed as CEO of Village Sounds Group Promoter Jessica Ducrou appointed Matthew Evans as CEO of the Village Sounds Group of companies. Evans was most recently CFO of Australasia for…

UMPG signs music catalogue of Warner Bros Entertainment Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) has signed the past and present music catalogues of Warner Bros Entertainment to a worldwide…

When Deezer raised $130 million last October, many observers tipped the music subscription service to win the race. Not so fast. With the arrival of Apple’s iTunes Radio – a streaming service not yet…

Stagnation is like a cancer to an awards ceremony. With that in mind, the APRA Music Awards is on the move this year – quite literally. APRA’s flagship awards gala returns to Melbourne, where it’ll…

PledgeMusic, Moshcam, team for videos PledgeMusic and online music video catalogue holder Moshcam team up for an initiative called Shoot My Gig, to allow acts around the world to fund and distribute…

When Kobalt Music Group opened for business in 2000, its founder Willard Ahdritz set about his mission to change the game of music publishing and copyright administration. The Swedish-born executive…

Rdio might like to position itself as the United Nations of streaming services. The company was founded by the Danish mastermind behind Skype, it’s based in the U.S. and its Australian company is now…