Nathan Jolly

The Australian music industry is in for a good charting week, as both Vance Joy and Sarah Blasko's new records look very likely to debut in the higher reaches of the ARIA chart. Vance's sophomore…

Stella Donnelly has signed an international deal with US indie Secretly Canadian, home to The War On Drugs, Antony and the Johnsons, and Yoko Ono - to name but a few. “Stella was one of the artists I…

There's a new Instagram competitor on the block, and the promise of a chronological feed, no ads (for now), no algorithms (for now) and a few other nifty features had been enough to see people flood…

Twitter have had to write off most of the $70 million it poured into SoundCloud in mid-2016. Twitter shared the sorry news in its 2017 Annual Report, which states that the company was forced to write…

Concord Music has announced that Australian music industry legend Kim Frankiewicz will be heading up their new international A R team. As a manager, she worked with INXS and The Models at MMA Agency…

Facebook is about to launch its own range of smart speakers, according to multiple reports. The social media giant is said to be is working on two devices, codenamed Aloha and Fiona, which, according…

Troye Sivan and Amy Shark will be soundtracking the latest coming-of-age film coming out of the monolith 20th Century Fox factory. Love, Simon follows the exploits of a gay high school student who is…

Congrats to Hockey Dad, who crashed into this week's ARIA Albums chart at #6 with their new album Blend Inn. They are the first band from Wollongong to land in the Top 10 since 1995, when…

New Zealand pop artist Chelsea Jade couldn't have imagined that a songwriting workshop in Auckland would lead to U.S. chart success, but that's the way it looks likely to pan out. Last year, Jade…

Dean Lewis is now based in L.A. which means there is a pretty good chance that the spare room at his mother's place is filling fast with trophies, including his third Gold plaque from his debut EP…

So, you wanna be discovered? You want an A R guy in a bright bold jacket to wine you and dine you and tell you tales of future riches, of industry respect and first-week chart projections, and…

If you clicked, you've probably got a venue in mind. Well, it's time to vote for your favourite live venue in The Industry Observer Awards. It's the only award of the night that is publicly voted,…