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Strung across 14 live venues in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, 140 bands descended on BIGSOUND over the past two days and nights, making this year’s three-day music industry conference the biggest yet.…

TMN caught up with UK-based Bestival Founder and BBC Radio 1 DJ, Rob Da Bank (Robert John Graham), who created the music playlists and soundtrack for the Forza Horizon game series. Bank takes us…

Promoter juggernaut Live Nation Entertainment is reportedly in talks to purchase a 51% stake in C3 Presents, the independent promoter who own Australia’s Big Day Out and US’ Lollapalooza and Austin…

Will Page hasn’t even been in the country a week and he’s already influencing the government. Spotify’s Director of Economics met with Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday to discuss Australia’s online piracy…

LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem is the best-selling song in Australian history; the track went to #1 in 19 countries and is currently ranked the 5th best song of all time on Billboard’s Hot 100 55th…

Fresh Australia-focused analysis from Spotify has shown that online music piracy declined 20% in the 12 months from Dec 2012 to Dec 2013. Unveiled at the government’s Copyright – Online Infringement…

The local independent music company, which has had incredible ARIA chart success this year with artists like In Hearts Wake (#5), The Amity Affliction (#1) and Allday (#3), has officially announced…

The City of Melbourne has unveiled the recipients of this year’s annual arts grants, with funding made available for a local unsigned act to record their debut album. The 58 recipients, including…

Two Perth music promoters have started a crowdfunding campaign to raise $150,000 to stage a Paul Weller show in Perth next year. “Living in one of the most isolated cities in the world, we as music…

MTV Australia has today announced a new weekly chart show, hosted by MTV VJ’s, Kate Peck and Krit. TMN can exclusively reveal the advertisement-free show, which is Australia’s only ad-free and hosted…