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The Gold Coast music community has banded together to find solutions to the current venue crisis by setting up the Save Our Live Music Gold Coast page on Facebook. A council and liquor licensing…

MTV has announced an international campaign to offer its fans a chance to kick-start a career in the creative industries. Through its international, multi-platform initiative MTV Breaks, three young…

The Australian Tax Office has obtained royalty payment details of over 15,000 artists and 1000 companies in a bid to crack down on non-compliant taxpayers. The ATO has the details of some $800…

Iggy Azalea has called out her Australian label over the latest issue of Maxim Australia. The Mullumbimby-born artist features on the cover of the magazine as she topped its Maxim Hot 100 list, a…

The international partnerships keep rolling in for Newtown’s DMA’s, who have just inked a deal with full-service US booking agency Paradigm Talent. Home to Aerosmith, Coldplay, The Black Eyed Peas…

Mariachi El Bronx Wildfires Mariachi El Bronx, the quieter offshoot of brash and brazen Los Angeles punks The Bronx, has been considered something of a novelty by some fans. It would be rude to deny…

The Grateful Dead’s publishing company Ice Nine has inked a global deal with Universal Music Publishing Group to resurrect the iconic rockers’ catalogue. Announced at the weekend by UMPG North…

Australians acts scored well in the US-based international Unsigned Only competition, with one First Place, two Second Places and numerous Honorable Mentions. The competition is open to artists not…

Japanese Wallpaper Ft. Jesse Davidson Between Friends I’m continually blown away by the talent that turns up in triple j Unearthed’s annual Unearthed High contest – and that’s not restricted to past…

Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), who collects license fees on behalf of acts like Taylor Swift, Pink, Adam Levine and Nicki Minaj, has reported record-breaking revenues of US$977 million for its fiscal…