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"The zero to five year age bracket is really the age range where children are developing the sense of identity and self most profoundly. To only feed them with unlocalised content, it just seems like a really crazy thing to do."

The whole trope of a foreign band being “big in Japan” is one that’s been done to death. In the 1960s surf garage rockers The Ventures were arguably the instigators of the cliche. They were a pop…

Most people believe that they are individuals and that they do things out of their own free will, but according to behavioural scientist Breanna Wright (BehaviourWorks Australia), we’re actually…

An important conversation was given a platform and a spark at BIGSOUND last week when five music industry figures, who are also mothers, delivered a panel titled The Mothers of All Strength In Music.…

"Nobody owes you a career, you are not entitled to it. You have to earn it. And life is not an Instagram story"

If you sorta really like Troye Sivan, you’re not alone. He's hot right now. Sivan just burst into the upper echelons of the ARIA Chart with Bloom, reaching his highest position so far at #3. For the…

The hangovers have set in, the lack of sleep is now taking its toll and Bigsound 2018 has come to an end. Following incredible performances from the likes of Dobby, G-Flip, Genesis Owusu, Slowly…

I have been penning a letter about detaching from the pressures of the music industry for the past few years, but I didn’t consciously start to detach until I recently went to London. Right now I…

Earlier this week, Bigsound announced a major change to the beloved Australian music industry event. Maggie Collins, the Executive Programmer for Bigsound, is getting some help in 2019. As reported…