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In the run up to the New Zealand elections this week Eminem is suing the National Party. The rap mogul claims the National Party infringed the copyright of his Grammy and Oscar-winning song Lose…

A spokesperson for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has explained why a Friday street date is the best option for the proposed global release day. “The proposal is for…

Organisers of the Screen Music Awards have announced its return this year with actor Rob Carlton set to host. Carlton, a film and TV veteran, and a Tropfest-winning actor and director most recently…

Earlier this week a federal judge in New York ruled Grooveshark did infringe on over 100,000 of Universal Music’s copyrights. Universal’s four-year dispute with the online music service marked a…

Medium, the publishing platform launched by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, has hired Jonathan Shecter to lead the launch of a new digital music publication. According to sources in the US, the…

Peter Capaldi Jenna Coleman at triple j, G.R.L promo tour, Delta Goodrem with The Voice Kids’ winner Alexa, George Ezra, Dami Im, Jimmy Barnes with The Living End and The Potbelleez perform at…

Independent jazz and classical label Blue Music Group has pulled all its music from Spotify, calling the streaming service’s rates “pitiful”. "Having the catalog available at Spotify’s pitiful rates…

Drake will tour Australia for the very first time next year as part of Future Music Festival’s just announced lineup. Announced alongside seminal electronic group The Prodigy and Avicii, the globe’s…

The 10th Coopers AMP is set to return for yet another round of discussion and debate in the search for the best album of 2014. Allday, Chet Faker, REMI and DZ Deathrays are among the 36 acts up for…

Sony Music Russia, Universal Music Russia and Warner Music UK have taken Russian social media site VKontakte to court over claims it allows wide scale piracy by users. VK enables users to upload…