New Signings & Team-Ups: Teef Records teams with Oxfam; Wu-Tang Clan-inspired beer; Wheatstone and RCS strike dealership pact; Authorised Hendrix movie on the way

Sydney’s Teef Records teams with Oxfam for Nepal

Sydney’s Teef Records put together a compilation album Imperium In Imperio (Empire Within An Empire) to raise funds for Nepal’s earthquake recovery through Oxfam Australia. Out June 1, it offers a pay-what-you-want deal. The 16 tracks include unreleased stuff from Collarbones, Setec, Planéte, GRRL PAL, Yon Yonson, St. South, Leaks and Electric Sea Spider.

Wu-Tang Clan-inspired beer produced by Philadelphia brewery

A beer inspired by the Wu Tang Clan is being brewed at Philadelphia’s Dock Street Brewery. It is named Dock Street Beer Ain’t Nuthin’ to Funk With, with a “spicy pineapple and orange-tart flavor.” It will be aged for six months while Wu Tang’s music plays beside the barrel. Head brewer Vince Desrosiers hopes the bass chunka-chunka will “cause enough vibration to move the yeast around and create some different flavors during fermentation."

Mercy Ships gets proceeds from album

Mercy Ships, the floating hospital which provides free surgery and medical care for the world’s poor with volunteers from 40 countries, has a new music benefactor. NZ Christian singer songwriter Peter Woolston is on board as an ambassador. He will also donated 50% of profits from his July-due album Hope On My Horizon. He said, "My wife worked with Mercy Ships before we met, and we have stayed engaged with Mercy Ships since, eager to hear about the radical impact being made in the lives of the poorest of the poor."

Wheatstone and RCS strike dealership pact

Wheatstone and RCS entered into a dealership agreement. It will integrate Wheatstone’s WheatNet-IP audio network and RCS’s digital playout, music scheduling, traffic and newsroom systems for “seamless integration”.

Warner Music Group acquires Poland’s long running label

Warner Music Group acquired Polskie Nagrania, Poland’s longest-running record company, from the government. It has one of Poland’s most celebrated collections of pop, rock, folk, classical and jazz, from the 50s to now.

$680,000 for projects to benefit artists with disabilities

A collaboration by the NSW Government, The Lifetime Care and Support Authority and Arts NSW, will help arts organisations involved in projects with artists with disabilities. Arts organisations, half of which will be from regional NSW, will receive up to $60,000. NSW Minister for the Arts Troy Grant said these projects would improve social inclusion of people with disabilities and “will also create lasting works of art, highlighting the talents of people with disabilities and develop creative and social networks and partnerships.” The Authority supports people severely injured in motor accidents in NSW.

Paul Costa buys back the farm

Australian country performer Paul Costa hitched up with WJO / Universal Music Australia. His new single Buying Back The Farm, written by Drew McAlister and Allan Caswell, is about a young man, away in school, who hears the bank foreclosed on his family’s farm. He returns and, wheeling and dealing, buys it back. Thirteen years as a staple on country music festivals, Costa has also played Japan, New Zealand, Thailand and through Europe. The new track is from one of two collectors’ packs that are released on July 17 – In This Life / Wheels & Steel and Restoration / Walkin' In These Shoes.

Industry Superfunds taps AFL theme composer Mike Brady

For the latest installment of its Compare the Pair campaign, to target the AFL crowd, Industry Superfunds tapped composer Mike Brady. Brady penned Australian Football League anthems, Up There Cazaly and One Day in September. The spot runs across free-to-air, Foxtel and online through the AFL season. The umbrella body for many major Australian superannuation funds, Industry Superfunds’ media account is worth $9 million a year.

Stan to be included in Telstra bundles

In a bid to lift profile, Australian streaming service Stan has its product offered alongside rival Presto within Telstra’s broadband bundles. The deal is a surprise to many in the sector: Telsta’s part owner Foxtel owns half of Presto.

Authorised Hendrix movie on the way

Legendary Pictures got the go-ahead from Jimi Hendrix's estate, Experience Hendrix LLC, to make a biopic of the guitar genius. It will include his music, unlike last year’s unauthorised Jimi: All Is By My Side by John Ridley. The new project, still untitled, will be written by US scriptwriter Scott Silver of 8 Mile, Mod Squad and The Fighter fame. The Hendrix estate has previously reluctant about movies hurting Hendrix’s back catalogue sales. Hendrix died in September 1970, aged 27, after releasing only three studio albums and some live ones. Since 1991, his back catalogue has sold 15.5 million units.