Lars Brandle

With the European Parliament’s vote on the Copyright Directive just weeks away, creators are putting YouTube on blast over the way the video platform opened its networks to “scaremongering” and for…

The rain came down, the tunes were banging and the cops were out in force at the inaugural Up Down Festival in Newcastle on the weekend. Organisers and a handful of performers on the dance-heavy…

All eyes are on India as Spotify, YouTube Music and, now, Facebook arm themselves for battle over the country’s nascent on-demand music market. Alongside existing deals with the major music…

Jaxsta, the soon-to-go-live music information superhighway, has struck a partnership with Universal Music Group that enables the Australian company to access data on all UMG's artists around the…

“She’s a go-getter. And she’s getting.” That’s how Bluesfest festival director Peter Noble characterises his award-winning colleague Kimberley Galceran, who’s been getting all the big shows of late.…

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. Former POTUS Teddy Roosevelt knew it. And it might as well be a slogan passed around Spotify’s lavish New…

Rising rockers Sleep Talk have joined the UNFD roster, TIO can exclusively reveal. Emerging from Adelaide’s heavy music scene, the five-piece got the ball rolling in 2016 with the release of the…

Ticketmaster is buying up Moshtix, TIO can exclusively reveal. Moshtix, led by its managing director Harley Evans, a seasoned ticketing veteran with experience in the U.K. and his homeland, New…

The Keep Sydney Open Party today pledges to repeal the lockouts, end the festivals licensing crisis and introduce pill testing as part of a package of measures it’ll take into the NSW state election.…

Michael Chugg is a guy you want on your side. The legendary concert promoter is never shy to roll up his sleeves and, right now, Chugg and many others have a fight on their hands. This evening, Chugg…

SoundCloud is now helping artists make money from other, rival streaming platforms. The Berlin-based digital music platform has launched a new tool which allows hundreds and thousands of its users to…

While events operators and music fans ring their hands over Gladys Berejiklian’s so called “war on festivals” in NSW, it’s a different story in the ACT where officials have approved pill testing at…