Poppy Reid

Jen Cloher called it "the documentary Australian music has been waiting for". Her Sound, Her Story, which the significant social impact women have within the Australian music industry, premieres next…

Too skint to pay for Spotify, and too spent from all those McDonald’s ads? Spotify has activated a product which lets users of the popular “free” tier to choose or dump the commercials. Spotify today…

Australia's five-year-old Live Music Office, the APRA AMCOS-administered body which works to increase opportunities for live music, is undertaking an ambitious review. Led by Jana Gibson, Head of…

Forget Brexit, a major pan-European stoush over copyrights is set for its final phase as music makers and tech giants pitch their final arguments. A cadre of music creators and industry stakeholders,…

The Orchard, the powerhouse Sony Music-owned distributor and label services company, has tapped Blake Rayner as GM of the company’s Australia and New Zealand business. After cutting his teeth in…

Out of the ashes, something new. The year in the music biz got off to a stunning start when Amrap split from its management parent, the CBAA, due to what Amrap staff described as a raft of conduct,…

Following a filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy last month, iconic guitar brand Gibson is already planning its return to traditional guitars, and ukeleles it seems. In an interview with Reuters, CEO…

Move over Drizzy, Latin fever is sweeping through. Colombian reggaeton star J Balvin has nudged out Drake, the best-belling artist on the planet in 2016, to become the most streamed artist worldwide…

The times are a changin’, and so are the U.K. charts. In a move to more accurately track the hits of the week, the U.K.'s singles chart will incorporate data from video streams for the first time…

Tom Windish - the renowned founder of The Windish Agency, a three-time winner of Pollstar's Independent Agency of the Year Award and a Senior Executive at Paradigm - said the "stars really aligned"…

Talk to anyone connected with Nashville, and the name Lindsay Rimes is never far from their lips. The Australian-bred songwriter and producer is fast becoming the go-to guy for shaping a hit. Rimes…

Sandwiched between the joint country powerhouse tour of Kip Moore Lee Brice and Latin singer El Fantasma aka “The King of the Underground” on the Billboard Hot Tour list is Australia's own Vance Joy.…