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Nathan Jolly

Joined 2017504 posts
NJ
Nathan Jolly is a Sydney-based writer and zen master, who also led the Chicago Bulls to six championships in the '90s.

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Spotify has started removing white supremacist bands from its service

Spotify has started removing white supremacist bands from its service

Considering the violence and hate speech involving white nationalists that has erupted across America over the past few weeks (well, over the past four hundred years), many major digital services…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 17, 2017
Spotify has started removing white supremacist bands from its service

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Spotify has started removing white supremacist bands from its service

Considering the violence and hate speech involving white nationalists that has erupted across America over the past few weeks (well, over the past four hundred years), many major digital services…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 17, 2017
Paul Kelly is in with a great chance of scoring his first ever #1

Paul Kelly is in with a great chance of scoring his first ever #1

Considering Paul Kelly's music seems as ingrained into the Australian experience as Holdens, meat pies, footy - and cliches about Holdens, meat pies, and footy, it comes as a surprise to realise he…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 16, 2017
Paul Kelly is in with a great chance of scoring his first ever #1

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Paul Kelly is in with a great chance of scoring his first ever #1

Considering Paul Kelly's music seems as ingrained into the Australian experience as Holdens, meat pies, footy - and cliches about Holdens, meat pies, and footy, it comes as a surprise to realise he…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 16, 2017
Drake dropped off the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time since 2009

Drake dropped off the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time since 2009

If you scan this week's Billboard Hot 100 chart -- and why the hell wouldn't you? -- you'll notice a Drizzy-sized absence. Yes, for the first time since 2009, Drake does not have a single in the Hot…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 16, 2017
Drake dropped off the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time since 2009

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Drake dropped off the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time since 2009

If you scan this week's Billboard Hot 100 chart -- and why the hell wouldn't you? -- you'll notice a Drizzy-sized absence. Yes, for the first time since 2009, Drake does not have a single in the Hot…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 16, 2017
Simon Cowell's new boy band is going to be massive - and you cannot stop it

Simon Cowell's new boy band is going to be massive - and you cannot stop it

Simon Cowell knows how to hustle. He came perilously close to bankruptcy in the early '90s after his label Fanfare Records folded -- catching a cab to his mother's house with £5.26 in his pocket,…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 15, 2017
Simon Cowell's new boy band is going to be massive - and you cannot stop it

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Simon Cowell's new boy band is going to be massive - and you cannot stop it

Simon Cowell knows how to hustle. He came perilously close to bankruptcy in the early '90s after his label Fanfare Records folded -- catching a cab to his mother's house with £5.26 in his pocket,…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 15, 2017
Seven compilations actually outsold this week's #2 album in Australia

Seven compilations actually outsold this week's #2 album in Australia

Ed Sheeran's album Divide has spent 19 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the ARIA Albums chart, which is no surprise in a nation where Michael Buble's Christmas album has hit the top reaches of the…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 14, 2017
Seven compilations actually outsold this week's #2 album in Australia

News

Seven compilations actually outsold this week's #2 album in Australia

Ed Sheeran's album Divide has spent 19 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the ARIA Albums chart, which is no surprise in a nation where Michael Buble's Christmas album has hit the top reaches of the…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 14, 2017
SoundCloud shareholders will vote on the company's future today

SoundCloud shareholders will vote on the company's future today

$230 million in venture capital being injected into a company sounds great on paper, but news that SoundCloud laid off 173 employees and closed two offices in July quickly sent rumours whirling that…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 11, 2017
SoundCloud shareholders will vote on the company's future today

News

SoundCloud shareholders will vote on the company's future today

$230 million in venture capital being injected into a company sounds great on paper, but news that SoundCloud laid off 173 employees and closed two offices in July quickly sent rumours whirling that…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 11, 2017
Australian Idol Paulini faces jail time for bribing a government official

Australian Idol Paulini faces jail time for bribing a government official

Paulini Curuenavuli is the latest from the Australian Idol stable to land into hot water with the law, after allegedly bribing a government official in order to get an unrestricted driver's licence.…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 11, 2017
Australian Idol Paulini faces jail time for bribing a government official

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Australian Idol Paulini faces jail time for bribing a government official

Paulini Curuenavuli is the latest from the Australian Idol stable to land into hot water with the law, after allegedly bribing a government official in order to get an unrestricted driver's licence.…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 11, 2017
Chris Cornell is to be honoured with a statue in Seattle

Chris Cornell is to be honoured with a statue in Seattle

Chris Cornell will be honoured as one of Seattle's great artists, with a memorial statue to be erected in the city next year. Cornell is buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in L.A., so the…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 10, 2017
Chris Cornell is to be honoured with a statue in Seattle

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Chris Cornell is to be honoured with a statue in Seattle

Chris Cornell will be honoured as one of Seattle's great artists, with a memorial statue to be erected in the city next year. Cornell is buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in L.A., so the…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 10, 2017
Holy Farnesy! Farnesy's son Rob signs to Sony

Holy Farnesy! Farnesy's son Rob signs to Sony

Rob Farnham, the son of John Farnham, has signed a deal with Sony Music for his band Rival Fire, with a debut album out this Friday. "I learned very quickly not to use my last name to open doors,"…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 8, 2017
Holy Farnesy! Farnesy's son Rob signs to Sony

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Holy Farnesy! Farnesy's son Rob signs to Sony

Rob Farnham, the son of John Farnham, has signed a deal with Sony Music for his band Rival Fire, with a debut album out this Friday. "I learned very quickly not to use my last name to open doors,"…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 8, 2017
A band that doesn't actually exist topped the iTunes Metal chart

A band that doesn't actually exist topped the iTunes Metal chart

Fans of online battle game League Of Legends have propelled a non-existent band to the top of the iTunes metal chart. Pentakill features characters from the popular multi-player game, with very metal…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 7, 2017
A band that doesn't actually exist topped the iTunes Metal chart

News

A band that doesn't actually exist topped the iTunes Metal chart

Fans of online battle game League Of Legends have propelled a non-existent band to the top of the iTunes metal chart. Pentakill features characters from the popular multi-player game, with very metal…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 7, 2017
Eminem is producing a new comedy about the battle-rap scene

Eminem is producing a new comedy about the battle-rap scene

It's quite surprising that Marshall Mathers didn't parlay his star turn in 2002 drama 8 Mile into a successful Hollywood career (say what you will about his lyrical content, but the dude can act),…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 3, 2017
Eminem is producing a new comedy about the battle-rap scene

News

Eminem is producing a new comedy about the battle-rap scene

It's quite surprising that Marshall Mathers didn't parlay his star turn in 2002 drama 8 Mile into a successful Hollywood career (say what you will about his lyrical content, but the dude can act),…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 3, 2017
Sony Music become the first label to put a new single behind a streaming paywall

Sony Music become the first label to put a new single behind a streaming paywall

Sony Music has led the charge and pushed streaming monetisation into a new realm, putting the new Diplo single behind a streaming paywall across all the major services in India. MBW reports that…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 3, 2017
Sony Music become the first label to put a new single behind a streaming paywall

News

Sony Music become the first label to put a new single behind a streaming paywall

Sony Music has led the charge and pushed streaming monetisation into a new realm, putting the new Diplo single behind a streaming paywall across all the major services in India. MBW reports that…

By Nathan Jolly - Aug 3, 2017
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