Lars Brandle

If you missed the chance for a foot stomping at Nashville’s Americana Fest, worry not. There’s still time to dust off the Stetson and dig out the Drizabone. The International Country Music Day rolls…

Spotify needs content, and the labels love Spotify. But does Spotify need the labels? Yes and no. Earlier this year, as Spotify was starting its new life as a public entity, news emerged that the…

triple j is banging the drum once more. The state-funded youth broadcaster is rallying its followers to have their say in the federal parliamentary inquiry on the arts, which is taking public…

The Australia Council for the Arts has dished out $6.3 million in its latest funding round, with a big chunk of that money rewarding the work of female artists, including All Our Exes Live in Texas,…

If you sorta really like Troye Sivan, you’re not alone. He's hot right now. Sivan just burst into the upper echelons of the ARIA Chart with Bloom, reaching his highest position so far at #3. For the…

He didn’t utter the words “content” and “quotas,” but Tony Burke’s message to the Australian music industry was clear. Intellectual copyright matters, and legislators need to keep tabs on the…

Do the work, but don’t work too hard. Say “yes,” sometimes “no”. Jot it down. And relentlessly pursue the time to do absolutely nothing. These are just a handful of secrets to Paul Kelly’s…

As the music community convened yesterday for the start of Bigsound, executives from Commercial Radio Australia, Nightlife Music and the local film industry fronted a senate inquiry 1,600 km away in…

Paul Piticco’s Dew Process has made two key promotions as the Brisbane-based indie record label gets set for a busy year ahead. Nathan Wood, who joined Dew Process last year as a publicist, becomes…

Leading independent Australasian ticketing company Moshtix has launched a novel feature which connects Facebook Messenger users with live events. The so-called “MoshMessenger” Facebook chat bot is…

Warner Music Australia has joined forces with Born Bred Talent, a leading local talent management and marketing agency, on a new video distribution network for YouTube “influencers -- dubbed “Born…

Viagogo is raising its game in the United States. The universally-vilified secondary ticketing merchant is quietly preparing to relocate its operations away from the U.K. to U.S. in an effort, some…