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When Kobalt Music Group opened for business in 2000, its founder Willard Ahdritz set about his mission to change the game of music publishing and copyright administration. The Swedish-born executive…

Tex Perkins has blamed ABC digital radio station DIG for leaking details of Homebake, via information he revealed in an interview not due to air until October. Perkins mentioned that the Beasts of…

Rdio might like to position itself as the United Nations of streaming services. The company was founded by the Danish mastermind behind Skype, it’s based in the U.S. and its Australian company is now…

Telstra -- the music and entertainment powerhouse. Don’t laugh. Though it hasn’t yet come to pass, it’s a strapline which is no joke. The Australian telco has serious ambitions to become a player in…

Songl has finally flicked the switch. The major-label backed streaming music service was presented at a function in Sydney last Thursday, a week after going live. It’s built by Digital Music…

Daniel Glass has something of a Midas touch. It seems everything he signs turns to a precious metal -- usually Platinum. Glass is the founder and president of Glassnote, one of the most important…

Jack Flanagan isn’t a fair-weather guy. Having faced repeated issues with various majors and independent labels, Flanagan and the U.S. rock band he manages, Clutch, figured they’d bring on the fight,…

Australia’s live scene is big business. It’s a booming sector which generates $1.2 billion, services almost 42 million punters and creates almost 15,000 full-time jobs, according to a 2011 study…

Simon Halliday is a music man, a brand steward and a raconteur. They’re all requisite skills for the executive charged with running 4AD, an independent label whose legacy is greater than all but a…

EDM is an “overnight sensation,” twenty years in the making. Patrick Moxey knows all too well the path that finally got electronic music into the U.S. mainstream – because he helped get it there.…