Music Network

A collective made up of musicians, academics, association heads, radio broadcasters, governmental advisers and festival promoters this week launched The Music Trust. Dr. Richard Letts AM, its…

Neil Young spoke to an attentive crowd of music lovers yesterday, on the first day of SXSW’s music program, addressing the issues surrounding the sale of low-quality mp3s. The music legend took to…

Applications for two Australia Council music grants – Presentation Promotion and New Works – close on Monday, May 5. Presentation Promotion provides up to $30,000 to support one-off projects that…

Sudeep Gohil is the CEO of Droga5 in Australia, one of the world’s leading advertising agencies. Over the years, the company has worked on campaigns combining the might of Microsoft and Jay-Z,…

After launching their services in twenty new territories last December, Rdio are now preparing to enter the Indian market, acquiring popular streaming service Dhingana with plans to rebrand and…

A biography of Rolling Stone publisher and co-founder, Jann Wenner, is in the works. The book will be penned by Joe Hagan, a contributing editor for New York magazine who has written long-form pieces…

Victoria’s peak music association Music Victoria has this morning unveiled a White Paper making known a series of recommendations to politicians ahead of the state election on November 29. The…

One Direction fever is now officially a worldwide epidemic, with the UK lads’ third album Midnight Memories the highest selling record worldwide in 2013. These figures come from IFPI’s Digital Music…

DJ Warehouse Australia in administration DJ Warehouse Australia, the country’s largest supplier of DJ gear, music production and PA hire, informed suppliers that it is set to cease trading. Pro-audio…

Triple j and the ABC have announced that digital station Dig Music will be renamed Double J and re-launched on Wednesday 30 April. The station will also introduce regular presenters with music…

New international partnerships for Create/Control The latest additions to Create/Control’s international labels are USA’s Downtown Records and the UK’s Mute. Downtown is home to Gnarls Barkley, Miike…

Powderfinger have brought their publishing in-house by signing a worldwide administration deal with their manager Paul Piticco’s Dew Process Publishing. The catalogue deal includes their first five…