Poppy Reid

The first round of artist and speakers added to next year’s South By South West (SXSW) festival have been announced, and the local contingent is mighty strong. The Australian and New Zealand acts set…

Following a spate of sexual assaults at Swedish festivals so grim and numerous, the attacks made headlines around the globe, one pertinacious Swede has set in motion plans for a women-only festival.…

There is an old, time-honoured adage: those who cannot do, teach; and those who cannot teach, legislate. It can certainly feel that way these days – politicians seem increasingly disconnected from…

Perched on a rooftop, playing a gig to an audience halfway across the world, Aussie singer-songwriter Matt Boylan-Smith explains to them the lightning-crack moment he knew he needed to stop his…

Here's all the music industry news you need to know today. No decision about the inclusion of data from YouTube on the Billboard charts has been made - via Hypebot Native Tongue announced a…

MusicNSW and the City of Sydney have chosen the recipients for the latest All Ages Access Grant Program, which funds all-ages events in inner Sydney. TIO can exclusively reveal the successful grant…

Music Australia CEO Chris Bowen will depart at the end of 2017 after five years in the role, the peak body announced Tuesday morning. Bowen is just the second CEO in the 25-year history of the…

The health of the Australian music industry was prodded and probed for the “state of the industry” session at the Contemporary Music Roundtable in Sydney, a session which featured three key players…

While the vitriol surrounding scalping and the secondary market is at an all-time high, perhaps a reeducation is needed about what a ticket means in the current music industry landscape, and more…

Australian expats are achieving incredible things for the music industry from the UK. Many of them will tell you the lessons learned on home soil gave them many of the tools they still use today. To…

Following Brett Cottle's announcement that he would step down in June 2018, the APRA AMCOS CEO has named his replacement. International recruiting firm Odgers Berndtson were tasked with the search…

What do you get when you put two leaders in the music tech space in front of a 120-strong music industry audience and get them to tackle the question: ‘Could A.I. create the next hit song?’ Scroll…