Opinion

Before the end of the year, a colleague of mine asked me to hop on a call to help him negotiate terms with an external partner. I did, and believe the call was effective. This week, after…

Cover songs seem to be an underutilised marketing asset for developing artists. They have instant familiarity. If you take a song and flip it in an entirely new direction aligned with an artist’s…

Music collectors have long mourned the slow death of physical music purchasing.

Gladys Berejiklian’s response: “They haven’t shown there is any evidence yet.”

The other day, an artist representative told me they aren’t paid to come up with the artist’s vision for them… “That’s the artist’s job.” I couldn’t agree more… The era we live in requires a bold and…

I feel that in recent weeks I have had something of a “road to Damascus” moment around my consumption of music. Let me start with setting out how I was feeling 2–3 weeks ago about my own…

The following featured in Jake Udell's Art of a Manager newsletter. “Power has shifted in the music industry, and a large share of that power is resting with artist managers. Artist managers are the…

NSW Decides: This is your “last drinks” call to arms.

Why are artist managers paid the same rate, and in some cases less, than they have ever been paid? Luke Girgis has a solution.

“A woman is always accompanied, except when quite alone, and perhaps even then, by her own image of herself. “While she is walking across a room or weeping at the death of her father, she cannot…