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John French, engineer and/or producer of some of the greatest Australian classic albums, passed away in a Melbourne hospital this week. He was 75. French emerged as Chief Engineer at Melbourne’s TCS…

More Australians are using smartphones to listen to music, according to a new report released by music industry organisation the IFPI. Dubbed ’Connecting with Music’, the latest version of the 2017…

Just imagine the feeling of lining up outside your favourite local record store to grab the newest vinyl edition of Beyonce's 2016 record Lemonade. You grab your record, run home, pop the record on…

Bedroom producers, keep going. Production music, those unobtrusive works that so often breathe life into film and TV, is a billion dollar global industry. For the first time, the U.S.-based…

While Catherine Haridy cut her teeth in the recorded music industry, working as one of just a few female A R managers at at both Warner Music and Festival Mushroom Records in the late '90s to early…

A fortnight or so ago, Universal sent out a press release to both mark ten years since the release of Kanye's Graduation album, and to point out the staggering success of the 'Stronger' single from…

Following Face The Music's banner year in 2016, the brilliant Victorian music conference is back once more, and has just announced its first round of speakers for this year's event. Heading up this…

Face The Music this morning announced the first of its 12 speakers for its November 23 24 summit in a new (but yet to be revealed) venue in Melbourne. They are: Los Angeles singer/songwriter and…

New venue operators at St Kilda s iconic Esplanade Hotel (commonly known as The Espy) have announced its first live music event since the venue closed its doors more than two years ago. Australian…

In their biggest remix challenge since offering budding producers the chance to rework the Playschool theme, triple j Unearthed this morning announced their latest competition: a hunt for a killer…