Lars Brandle

Everyone’s talking about AI and its upsides (and potentially-hideous downsides) for the music and creative communities. SuperRes, the Brisbane startup which uses AI for advanced audio search and…

Music fans of a certain age with a steel-trap memory for mid-80s pop will remember John Waite’s intelligent tear-jearker “Missing You.” The British singer and former The Babys frontman is back in the…

Jane Huxley is climbing the ladder at Spotify, TIO can reveal. Just 18 months after her arrival at the tech giant, the Australian executive is understood to have accepted a role to serve as Spotify's…

Triple J’s Hottest 100 is done and dusted for another year, but its impact is banging on in the national singles survey. The latest ARIA Singles Chart is awash with tracks which appeared in the…

The summer is still baking, it’s stinking hot but the holidays are done. For Sydneysiders, it’s time to get down to other business. With the deadline fast approaching for feedback on the City of…

Courtney Barnett is on track to become the first two-time winner of the prestigious Australian Music Prize, the shortlist for which was announced this morning. The Melbourne-based singer and…

Brisbane is no longer the undersized younger brother, with a nutty streak. Nope, with its bustling network of spanking new tunnels, skyscrapers and high-density blocks, it’s a city all grown up. Its…

Pop icons Olivia Newton-John and Kylie Minogue, Universal Music Australia Classics and Jazz General Manager Cyrus Meher-Homji, Bakehouse Studios and SLAM co-founders Helen Marcou and Quincy McLean,…

The shitshow that was Fyre Festival continues to let off a mighty stink, as more details emerge on how its founder Billy McFarland deceived investors with fake assets and dream artist relationships…

If Pitchfork is part of your staple, your days of feasting for free are (nearly) over. By the end of this year, the influential music news title and all its sister sites will go behind a paywall,…

Picture this: 5,000 party-goers at a first-time music festival, dropped in at a scenic location. Then imagine it’s orchestrated by two dreamers, music fans with little to no experience in running a…

It’s been a stormy season for tech stocks, but there are fresh signs Tencent Music Entertainment is riding it out. Less than six weeks after Tencent’s belated flotation on the New York Stock…