Music Network

The Australian Music Industry Network (AMIN) has selected 15 independent label owners to participate in its Release program. Set to run for six months, the program was set up to provide indie label…

Frontier have announced that unbeatable icons The Rolling Stones will be heading to Australia in March next year. So far only one date has been announced, March 22 for the opening of Adelaide Oval,…

Madonna and producer Robert "Shep" Pettibone have won a lawsuit that claimed they illegally sampled a tune on her 1990 international hit Vogue. Last July, US company VMG Salsoul sued, claiming that…

Joan Warner to keynote at country music radio seminar Commercial Radio Australia CEO Joan Warner is the keynote speaker at the third Country Music Radio Seminar. Organised by the CMA Australian…

Colin Daniels, Managing Director of Inertia, was voted on the 15-seat board of Merlin, London-based global rights agency for the independent label sector. Daniels is the second Australian on the…

Is Australia an expensive market for digital music streaming? A new whitepaper from APRA AMCOS examines Spotify prices in 35 markets, with the organisation’s principal analyst Andrew Harris…

Any touring musician knows that one of the very worst aspects (aside from the lukewarm, 2am truck-stop pies) is having to check your outrageously expensive musical instrument, then rattle nervously…

The year has almost drawn to a close and what a crazy one it’s been. We’ve seen some huge songs come and go, a number of wildly varying genres dominate the charts, and now that commercial radio have…

An exhibition celebrating 40 years of Mushroom Records and the music of Melbourne launched today and will run until March 3 at the RMIT Gallery in the city. The Music Melbourne Me: 40 Years Of…

Universal Music Group’s revenue was up 21.9% between January and September this year, to €3.398 billion (Australian $4.893 billion), its Paris-based parent company Vivendi reported. The world’s…

This morning, triple j revealed the six videos that will be vying for the esteemed Australian Music Video Of The Year. According to the station, the award is based on the winning music video’s…

Storm Queen, a truly organic rise from the underground. This week a favourite track of mine beat Eminem Rihanna’s The Monster in sales to hit number 1 on the UK singles chart. The weird thing about…