Poppy Reid

Frontline: April 2, 2014

This week Sony award Australia’s much-loved country duo, The Edge 96.ONE launch their Star Search, Jared Leto and Gabrielle Aplin master the ’selfie’ on their radio rounds and more.…

Sony Music offers record deal in talent search

Sony Music and its mobile brand affiliate Sony Xperia have come together to launch a global talent search, which will see its winner sign a recording contract with the major. Artists and bands have…

This Record Changed My Life: Protest The Hero

The record that changed my life was Propagandhi’s Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes. I can still remember the first time I heard Back to the Motor League; they released this song as an album teaser…

Bad Religion: Finding True North

In an age where more than three decades together habitually equates to a band’s brand-making, Bad Religion have maintained immediacy and a new collection of followers with each album cycle, sans…

In Focus: Australian country music - part three

This is a three-part feature. Part one can be read here. Part two can be read here. The Cost of a Country Career Australia’s country music acts tend to be the glass-is-half-full kind. You’d be hard…

Billy Bragg defends Spotify in open letter

UK artist and leftist political activist Billy Bragg has come to the defense of Spotify after a slew of payment-related criticisms from artists. Artists like Placebo’s Brian Molko and Thom York have…

Triple J’s Tom Ballard quits

Tom Ballard has quit his job as host at triple j, announcing he will focus on stand-up and sleeping. 24-year-old Ballard began his tenure with the networked station at just 17 before he began…

Before the fall: EMI’s ARIAs dominance in the last decade

EMI dominated the ARIA Awards for much of the past decade, before an overseas collapse saw them folded into another multi-national. We chart EMI Australia’s ARIA dominance during the years before the…

AJ Maddah briefs confused Big Day Out ticketholders

AJ Maddah has pushed back at Blur after the band announced they had pulled out of next year’s Big Day Out. The Soundwave/Warped Tour/Harvest promoter, who was brought in to jointly run Big Day Out…

Beats Music finally announce launch date

After an extensive build up, the music streaming service spearheaded by Interscope/Geffen Chairman Jimmy Iovine, rap mogul Dr. Dre and Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails, How To Destroy Angels) has been…

ARIA Award Predictions: Billy Russell, Zan Rowe, Smallzy

Live Review: Vans Warped, Sydney

Twelve years since Kevin Lyman’s skate-punk-turned-mixed-bag festival graced our shores, the legendary Vans Warped is back. After two dates in Brisbane and Coffs Harour and two broken down buses, 28…