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This morning, Triple J announced the final five nominees for their 2013 J Award: Australian Album of the Year. Abbe May’s Kiss My Apocalypse, Boy Bear’s Harlequin Dream, Horrorshow’s King Amongst…

NSW’s Live Music and Performance Taskforce today unveiled its Live Music Matters action plan to create new live opportunities and audiences for musicians, and tackle issues faced by the state’s live…

There have been numerous legal cases arising recently from disputes regarding band names. Usually those cases are about the ownership of the name, and frequently the issue comes to a head when two…

Lady Gaga, manager Troy Carter split Lady Gaga and manager Troy Carter have split, reports said. Once winning awards for his involvement in her creative output, apparently she stopped taking advice…

As TV show The Voice expands next year to become both an adults and kids series, Universal Music Australia has brought in Robert Rigby as Executive Manager of A R for The Voice. He will work with…

How many Glastonburys have you done? It’s a bragging right for anyone who has spent a long, lost weekend at the famous English festival. Whatever your answer, it won’t stack against the efforts of…

Universal sets up Sinatra label Universal Music Group has gone into a licensing agreement with Frank Sinatra Enterprises to set up a new imprint called Signature Sinatra. It will bring under the one…

Universal Music CEO and Chairman Lucian Grainge is the most influential music executive in Britain today, according to The Sunday Times. Grainge topped the music list of the newspaper’s 500 ’Most…

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…

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…