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Wanna build an empire from the ground up? VICE did just that, using as its foundation a cutting-edge magazine and a record label. Today, VICE is a vertically-integrated multi-media lifestyle brand,…

Staging a festival is fraught with problems. Staging an international hip hop festival is another matter altogether. Just ask Dwayne Cross. The U.S.-born, Melbourne-based promoter is behind the…

Tori Amos | Little Earthquakes The album that changed my life was Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes. At a very young age I was inspired by the biggest performers such as Michael Jackson and Madonna, and…

Congratulations on your recent APRA award. Is it odd to win based on a recording [In My Mind] that was released over 18 months ago? Yeah, it is very much in my past now, but it keeps popping up every…

Daniel Miller’s initial plan was simple. Release a single. That was back in 1978. The single was Warm Leatherette, the act was The Normal, and the vocals were his. Nothing unusual there. What…

Classical music has been around for hundreds of years. It ain’t going away. Those who’ve made a career in the genre are confident it’ll be around for hundreds more. Chaz Jenkins is a big believer in…

Start small, think big. That’s how European music firm Lateral goes about its business. Lateral is an independent, self-financed artist/songwriter management and music publishing firm. It was formed…

Record sales charts are an enduring barometer of popularity. They’re cold, numerical proof of success or failure in the fickle world of music. They serve as a yardstick for music companies to tell…

Jean Michel Jarre is passionate about music, whether he’s making it or protecting it. The Frenchman is a towering figure in the electronic music world, with 80 million career album sales to his name.…

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