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Taking a leaf from Apple and its Beats 1, Rdio has expanded beyond digital music streaming to include a live radio broadcast feature on its app for Android and iOS. It launched yesterday in the…

Apple Music will incorporate its library within MSTY, a UK-based mobile app that allows users to express their feelings to their friends using music. MSTY, which stands for My Song To You, will tap…

Live music contributed $15.7 billion to the Australian community last year. The figure was identified as part of new research from University of Tasmania, City of Sydney, City of Melbourne, The…

Melbourne artist Courtney Barnett shares the same number of nominations as British artists FKA Twigs and alt-J, and Scottish hip hop group Young Fathers for the UK s 5th annual AIM Independent…

A UK police operation to halt advertising on piracy sites has been hailed as a major success by the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit. Operation Creative, which was launched in 2013, has led to…

In the wake of the Live Music Office/ University of Tasmania s The Economic and Cultural Value of Live Music in Australia 2014 report on Wednesday, Music SA and the Live Music Office released the…

PRESS RELEASE: Australian rock band Hands Like Houses have announced a worldwide headline tour in support of their upcoming and third studio album, Dissonants, which will be released this spring…

Pete Murray is following up his successful Feeler Anniversary tour in 2014 with a 33-date national acoustic tour. The Yours Acoustically Tour will visit every State from October through to December,…

Irish singer-songwriter Sinead O Connor has made an official complaint to Irish police against booking agent Rita Zappador and Modus In Rebus Booking Agents for blackmail and defrauding her for 18…

MTV Brand New is the youth brand s new national competition which gives some of the hottest Australian and New Zealand artists the chance to break internationally. TMN is featuring a nominated artist…