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Australian tour promoter Secret Sounds has gone into a joint venture with Singapore-based concert promoter Now/Live to set up Secret Sounds Asia. The move follows an expansion of the Asian concert…

The South Australian Government has launched its latest initiative to promote the state’s music industry – and is claiming it as a first for Australia. Musitec is a non-profit cluster of music,…

5 Seconds of Summer will be notching up the Frequent Flyer points through November as they appear on no less than three awards ceremonies. The Sydney band, already up for five categories at the 2014…

A 2-CD set featuring Australian hip hop acts as Hilltop Hoods, Drapht, Layla and Koolism raised over $122,000 for youth cancer charity CanTeen. The Australian Hip Hop Supports CanTeen album, released…

U2’s experimental marketing strategy with Apple yielded better-than-expected results, says Apple’s Senior VP of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue. Of the 500 million global customers sent…

Last week’s tie-up between Vodafone Australia and Spotify – where millions of tracks on ad-free Spotify Premium become part of Vodafone’s monthly and pre-paid network subscriptions – makes sense,…

One of Australia’s long-standing music journalists and authors, Ed Nimmervoll, died in Melbourne after a battle with a brain tumour. He was 67. He was to have been inducted into The Age Music…

A May 2014 draft leaked last week by Wikileaks of confidential Trans-Pacific Partnership talks showed that Australia wants ISPs to police piracy on their networks but not have to bear the huge costs…

SFX Entertainment, owners of Stereosonic, have reported a net loss of US$107.2m for the six months ending June 30, against income of US$115.3m. Second quarter festival attendance, meanwhile, rose…

TMN celebrates two decades in this ever-shifting music industry by taking a look back at the key moments – both triumphant and tumultuous – in the Australian music business. 2013-2014 THE BOTTOM…

Sydney Opera House has announced that Chris Twite will join the Music at the House programming team as Senior Producer, Contemporary Music. For the past six years Twite has been the Promoter for…

After successful broadcasts in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, the INXS mini series Never Tear Us Apart premiered in Latin America last night. It will run for four weeks on satellite…