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Twenty four music associations were among those which will share in the Australia Council’s $1.5 million worth of music grants. Four of them are official peak music organisations representing their…

APRA AMCOS and the National Live Music Office have teamed up with the 2014 Sydney Fringe Festival and the Surry Hills community to present ’Ignite – Heat the Street’, an afternoon of live local music…

Original Matters has launched its marketing consultancy division with a long-term contract with Studios 301. The agency’s Managing Director Cathy Oates has been performing consultancy duties for…

Morrissey has been dropped from his record label just over four weeks following the release of his latest album. In January, the ex-Smiths frontman signed a two-album deal with US-based label…

Live Nation Australia and New Zealand has announced a partnership with New Zealand telecommunications provider Spark. The announcement comes just days following the major telco’s $20 million re-brand…

South Australia’s Minister for the Arts Jack Snelling announced the first five artist and four industry recipients of the inaugural Stigwood Fellowships. The program, run through Arts SA and the…

Nova Entertainment has teamed with Optus, Qantas, Marquee Nightclubs, Sony and Starcom to take its Red Room abroad. The tour will take in four cities with six acts performing at four Red Rooms in…

Screen Australia, the entertainment funding body, is to invest more than $12 million in the coming year on 11 new projects including the long-mooted TV drama on the life of Molly Meldrum. Funding for…

Spotify could join the likes of Google and Microsoft as it looks toward deep learning to improve its recommendations. While its music recommendation technology already uses intelligent machine…

TMN celebrates two decades in this ever-shifting music industry by taking a look back at the key moments – both triumphant and tumultuous – in the Australian music business. 2012 GOTYE HITS #1 IN US…