Poppy Reid

Australia's fastest-growing music and entertainment publisher ​The Brag Media has introduced a new feature across all of its publications in order to give its fans the opportunity to shout its…

Public recognition of AI-generated music as viable art has gradually expanded from the confines of esoteric research centers and experimental composers into the commercial, playlistable, VC-funded…

My father recently told me that as a six-year-old, I would tell him that I wanted to move to New York and make music. Now, nearly 30 years later, after having lived in a few continents, I’m sitting…

Before the end of the year, a colleague of mine asked me to hop on a call to help him negotiate terms with an external partner. I did, and believe the call was effective. This week, after…

Cover songs seem to be an underutilised marketing asset for developing artists. They have instant familiarity. If you take a song and flip it in an entirely new direction aligned with an artist’s…

Seven years after Greg Segal first partnered with Live Nation to bring his mixitup agency prowess into the live music space, Segal has taken the top partnerships role. Announced today, Segal is now…

When Wendy McDougall was in high school she thought to herself, 'If Annie Leibovitz can do it so can I'. And so she did. McDougall is now an award-winning Australian music photographer and over her…

The Association of Artist Managers (AAM)'s Leanne de Souza has stepped down from her role as Executive Director. The peak body representing artist managers in Australia announced the news today,…

Last night the South-East Queensland music industry gathered together on the Surfers Paradise beachfront to celebrate Gold Coast talent and the industry workers supporting these artists at the fifth…

Last month, 150 global music industry figures gathered at FastForward Sydney to discuss critical issues and future solutions. On Day 2, a panel of delegates from differing industry sectors weighed in…

The other day, an artist representative told me they aren’t paid to come up with the artist’s vision for them… “That’s the artist’s job.” I couldn’t agree more… The era we live in requires a bold and…

As the deadline nears for the Vanda Young Global Songwriting Competition (this Thursday 2 May, y’all!), it got us thinking about the world of songwriting comps. Because these competitions can be a…