TIO

Geoff Trio has a pretty sweet job. Every year the music industry titan and founder of Australian Music Week sits back, straps on a pair of headphones, and listens to hundreds of hours of music…

It seems like you'd barely find a single punter at a music festival who wasn't either fiercely clutching a plastic bottle of water, or drunkenly sloshing a plastic cup's worth of beer on you in the…

Nigel Grainge, the British music industry veteran who signed the likes of Sinead O’Connor, The Boomtown Rats, Thin Lizzy, Steve Miller Band, 10cc, The Waterboys and was recognized as one of the top A…

Rockin' The Puburbs, aside from being an excellently-named competition, is giving one band a mighty leg-up, with a run of gigs across some of the leading pubs in NSW on offer. The winning band…

As part of its overall objective to service the Australasian music industry, The Industry Observer has launched a free-to-access airplay charts portal. TIO's charts portal consists of five weekly…

It's been just under three months since Mirror Music Group Director Kurt Bailey launched Mirror Records, inking deals with up-and-coming Aussie musicians Sloan Peterson and Ric Rufio, and beefing up…

From its inception as a tiny Melbourne store in the 1970's, to becoming the linchpin that paved the way for electronic dance music in Australia and New Zealand, Central Station Records' status as an…

You might recall last month there was talk of a rumoured company sale going on with Pandora, the famed Internet radio platform. Now, there's been some confirmation on that front, with Pandora selling…

Merlin has another trick up its sleeve. The independents' digital rights agency revealed annual distributions for its members have topped US$353 million, a 52% year-on-year gain, with demand for…

“I think there should be an inherent value placed on art.” This is what Taylor Swift told Time magazine in November 2014, when being queried on why she decided to remove her music from the service. I…