Music Network

Australians acts scored well in the US-based international Unsigned Only competition, with one First Place, two Second Places and numerous Honorable Mentions. The competition is open to artists not…

About 31% of Australians see the internet as an entertainment channel than an information superhighway. But that rises to 52% in the 14-24 age group (up from 46% in 2011), according to new research…

West Australia’s peak music association today announced the first 30 speakers for the WA Music Conference. It is held Friday November 7 and Saturday 8 at the Central Institute of Technology in…

Sony/ATV Music Publishing has signed Iggy Azalea to a worldwide publishing deal, in partnership with T.I.’s company Grand Hustle. Azalea has delivered one of the biggest debut albums of the year with…

Medium, the publishing platform launched by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, has hired Jonathan Shecter to lead the launch of a new digital music publication. According to sources in the US, the…

Twenty four music associations were among those which will share in the Australia Council’s $1.5 million worth of music grants. Four of them are official peak music organisations representing their…

APRA AMCOS and the National Live Music Office have teamed up with the 2014 Sydney Fringe Festival and the Surry Hills community to present ’Ignite – Heat the Street’, an afternoon of live local music…

South Australia’s Minister for the Arts Jack Snelling announced the first five artist and four industry recipients of the inaugural Stigwood Fellowships. The program, run through Arts SA and the…

Screen Australia, the entertainment funding body, is to invest more than $12 million in the coming year on 11 new projects including the long-mooted TV drama on the life of Molly Meldrum. Funding for…

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. 2012 GOTYE HITS #1 IN US…

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. 1997 SAVAGE GARDEN HIT #1…

Peter Dawkins, one of the most successful record producers and A R executives to work in Australia, has died. The 68-year-old sustained fatal injuries after falling down the stairs at his home in the…