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Today is a big day for music in Germany, wrote YouTube on its blog overnight. The Google-owned video streaming giant has reached a landmark licensing agreement with the Germany-based music rights…

Image: Legion Fest headliner Lordi The initially fan-funded Legion Music Fest, co-founded by Devil You Know drummer John Sankey, has been cancelled. In a statement emailed to TMN today, festival…

Image: The 1975 have been hit by industrial scale scalping The UK Government is backing calls for stronger measures against professional mass online ticket scalping. Conservative MP Nigel Adams is…

Six months out, another drama has engulfed the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kiev, Ukraine. This is over a lack of funding for it. Zurab Alasania, the Head of NTU, Ukraine’s national TV and radio…

FEATURE ALBUM Illy - Two Degrees [ONETWO/Warner] Since 2009 the Melbourne MC, Illy has carved out a unique space for himself in the Australian hip hop scene. With seven consecutive Hottest 100…

Melbourne punk poets The Smith Street Band have launched their own label imprint in partnership with Remote Control Records, TMN can exclusively reveal. According to the band s drummer Chris Cowburn,…

Sony Music Japan and high profile record producer and impresario Yasushi Akimoto have apologised after a row broke out over a Japanese all-girl band s Nazi-like outfits. The mostly teenage members of…

Sony Corp s Q2 results showed that while many of the Japanese corporation s division showed declines, Sony Music was once again a profitable division. It reported an 8% (19% on a constant currency…

One of music s biggest brand names, Capitol Records, is to launch a year-long 75th anniversary through November with a number of projects. Its Chairman CEO Steve Barnett announced the first three.…

Findings in a research project lead by West Australian Music (WAM) has revealed that the contemporary music industry in the state is worth nearly $1 billion to the WA economy. The research, which is…