Lars Brandle

LOVE AND RENT, the artist management home of Kwame, Raave Tapes, Fritz and Split Feed, is expanding through a raft of new appointments, fresh artist signings and a relaunched online presence, TIO can…

The return of Rove McManus to our flat screens was something of a mixed-bag, as the veteran presenter’s new vehicle Bring Back Saturday Night pulled soft first-up audience numbers, solid critical…

All live music venues and good operators of well-managed clubs and bars should be rewarded with exemption from Sydney’s lockout laws under new proposals announced Monday by Lord Mayor Clover Moore.…

Australia’s main streaming platforms were thrust under the microscope Friday morning as the NSW Music Inquiry kicked off at Parliament House. Jane Huxley, managing director of Spotify Australia New…

He freaked out geek-universe when he helmed Star Wars and Star Trek projects. And he abandoned us with his perplexing, breakthrough series Lost. J.J. Abrams loves to surprise, and he’s done just that…

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu’s remarkable story is now a posthumous box-office hit. Gurrumul, an acclaimed portrait of the late indigenous artist’s rare talent, is now recognized as the seventh…

That old joke about visiting Brisbane, and how you’ll need to set your watch back 20 years... it was lame at the time. Don’t even bother with it now. Brisbane is a dynamic, modern city with a lot…

Damian Costin’s 123 Agency is stepping into the label community through a new joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment Australia. The new label, 123 Music, was unveiled today with an ambition to…

Impala, the pan-European independent music companies’ lobby body, has filed an objection with the European Commission about Sony’s outright acquisition of EMI Music Publishing, which it describes as…

Facebook, a social media titan with a reputation for taking, sharing and not giving back, has been busy of late building bridges with its own, big music plans in mind. On Wednesday, APRA AMCOS…

Metal heads, open your calendars. The second annual Download Festival Australia now has confirmed dates and venues. Presented by Live Nation, UNIFIED and Secret Sounds, the hard rock and metal fest…

Sync or swim? Why not have both. Today, Sync can mean so much more than a bonus stream of ancillary income or a sugar hit. The right record twinned with the right campaign can turbo-charge a song, an…