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PRESS RELEASE: Every year APRA allocate a percentage of their revenue to fund hundreds of initiatives across the Australian and New Zealand music industry with their Music Grants program. The program…

World s End Press Spirals (Slide Away) Melbourne s purveyors of fine, live electro driven house, World s End Press, have kept themselves busy since their 2013 debut self-titled record won us over and…

Red Bull Records has expanded its Sony Music Australia distribution deal to a global deal, excluding Japan. Red Bull Records releases have been distributed through Sony/Red in the US since the label…

The Australia Council has approved $981,595 for 99 ArtStart grants for emerging artists in various arts forms to further their careers. Of these, 28 were from music, covering rock, jazz, electronica,…

Nine out of 10 Australian users of Spotify s freemium model are happy to be served ads, and users worldwide spend over nine times as long per day on Spotify than Facebook. Spotify unveiled research…

Two new directors for Australia Council The Australia Council for the Arts has two directors joining its exec team. Marion Potts is Director, Theatre, replacing Lyn Wallis who is now Artistic…

Jay Z s $US56 million public offer for Scandinavian company Aspiro, which operates high-def streaming platform WimP/Tidal, has been accepted. The 45-year-old rap mogul made the bid of 464 million…

More Australia Day honours Aside from the radio names honoured on Australia Day (detailed already in On The Dial), some music names also had their day in the sun. R B singer songwriter John Swanee…

triple j Hottest 100 - The stats It s done and dusted for another year, in its 22nd year triple j provided the soundtrack to Australia Day counting down the Hottest 100. A record 2,099,707 votes were…

COURTNEY BARNETT Pedestrian At Best There s no doubt that on both the international and local stage, one of the biggest Australian success stories from the past 18 months is the ever charming,…