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New international partnerships for Create/Control The latest additions to Create/Control’s international labels are USA’s Downtown Records and the UK’s Mute. Downtown is home to Gnarls Barkley, Miike…

Shaun James heads Presto Shaun James, General Manager of music channels and Head of Digital for Foxtel Networks Australia, is overseeing its new online movie service Presto. James bowed out as…

ZHU Faded This is a song which seemingly came out of nowhere, and has swept us at triple j (and our listeners) into a flurry of excitement. ZHU (pronounced “Zoo”) is a relatively new and anonymous…

Courtney Barnett, Ben Salter, Lance Ferguson, The Grigoryan Brothers and Ainslie Wills are the recipients of $15,000 grants awarded by the PPCA and Australian Council. The grants will be used to…

This Thursday sees the launch of Nokia’s MixRadio service, its first foray in China. Times are changing in a country once blighted by rampant piracy, so much so that January also saw CISAC (the…

The Australian media landscape may be set for a massive upheaval in the next few years, if Federal Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s proposed changes for the media ownership laws come to…

David Letterman has announced that he will be retiring next year, when his contract expires. The Late Show, which Letterman has hosted since 1993, has been instrumental in breaking numerous musical…

The Senate Economics References Committee has this afternoon made a series of ticket scalping recommendations in which committee member Nick Xenophon, Independent Senator for South Australia, called…

"Wearables": it was the buzz word among all us geeks at SXSW Conference this year if you attended the Interactive portion of the event. To put the relevance of a ’buzz word at SXSW’ into context,…

The Janoskians join Republic in America Melbourne-based The Janoskians have signed in the US with Republic Records, home to Florence And The Machine, Of Monsters And Men, Angel Haze, Psy, James Blake…