Opinion

Author Ryan Holiday wrote an excellent book called Perennial Seller which explores the value of creating something that will sell steadily over time: be it a novel, a record, a movie, or a product -…

TMN did a ring-around of music and digital execs to find out, but didn’t get very far.

Maybe it was merely driven by curiosity, maybe it's a sign of the times, or maybe it's because it's a deeply-personal, sweet, savage, scattered, seven-track album, but Kanye's entire Ye record…

If you watch as much televised drama (read: soap operas) as me, chances are you're going to start noticing patterns. Like, the smaller the town, the more chance it has of being hit with an avalanche…

On the weekend I looked up the lyrics to 'Alcoholiday' by Teenage Fanclub (excellent, underrated song) as I was laughing about the fact they used the word 'interim' in it. It turns out I had…

Last week, after my band Shag Rock and I supported The Rubens at a gig in Ipswich, we loaded our van - that we’ve been playing gigs with for four years. After, we went home and locked the van,…

It's hard to believe, but there was a time where printing the lyrics on the sleeve or in the booklet of an album represented a substantial loss of income. Back in the '60s, print music was a big deal…

What makes Melbourne's music scene so productive and alive is the combination of musicians, live music venues, and community radio. For the twelve years I have been broadcasting on community radio in…

The Australian Greens party are taking NSW Police to court today, after this week's bullshit announcement that they are planning to refuse entry to tomorrow's Above and Beyond music festival to…

I'm going to start with the assumption that we've all seen those dramatic "You Wouldn't Steal A Car" anti-piracy commercials at the start of DVDs, with the watery nu-metal riffs and a man committing…