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PRESS RELEASE: AWME will once again bring together premier roots music artists and industry professionals across three days from 12-14 November. Joining those acts already announced are home-grown…

The huge collective sigh of relief from the arts, music and communications sectors when it was announced Senator Mitch Fifield was taking over these portfolios, might have been a tad premature, going…

WAM continues to pile on the announcements with a further 81 acts added to the huge four-day festival. Further acts announced include: triple j conquerors Tired Lion, the Laneway leaping Methyl…

The Amrap Metro and Amrap Regional Charts provide insight into what s gaining airplay and attention on community radio. The charts show the top ten tracks ordered for airplay by community…

MTV has appointed veteran digital media executive Sean Atkins as its new President, as it pushes for greater digital interaction with its declining viewership. Atkins was most recently General…

The problem is that the labels push artists into exploitative record deals where they only get a tiny share of the royalties, and the labels keep the rest. One of the world s leading and most…

ARIA Streaming Justin Bieber s What Do You Mean? has now held #1 on the Streaming chart for four weeks, still leading ahead of former #1 The Weeknd s Can t Feel My Face at #2. Macklemore Ryan Lewis…

TMN has revived Hot Seat to offer our young industry subscribers an insight into what it takes to make it in the music business. Ahead of Melbourne s eighth annual Face The Music conference, TMN…

In an Australian first, Melbourne will get its first Music Symposium On November 12 with Music Canada s Amy Terrill, University of Liverpool Chair of Architecture Professor Robert Kronenburg and…

PRESS RELEASE: Former Deputy Prime Minister and Nationals Leader, Tim Fischer AC, and Australia s four independent regional broadcasters today welcomed comments by the Minister for Communications,…