Paul Simon and Rufus Wainwright are the two latest acts added to Bluesfest 2013 giving the Byron Bay music festival easily the greatest line-up ever seen on one festival in Australia.
November 10, 2012
Australian singer songwriter Clare Bowditch has been announced as a speaker at the Face The Music conference in Melbourne next week.
November 9, 2012
Music copyright organisation APRA|AMCOS this week announced that it has distributed 14% more in royalties to its members in the 2011/12 financial year, confirming a strengthening digital download market and revealing a growing interest in Australian songwriters internationally.
November 9, 2012
Spotify is about to test its ability to break an unknown act with the exclusive release of Sweden’s Cazzette.
November 9, 2012
SXSW has confirmed the first acts for 2013 with Australia’s Seth Sentry, Emma-Louise, The Chevelles, San Cisco and Vaudeville Smash heading to Austin for festival showcases.
November 9, 2012
The Rolling Stones have released ‘One More Shot’, the second of their two new songs from the ‘GRRR’ album.
November 8, 2012
Parkway Drive, from Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, will debut in the Top 30 in the USA this week.
November 7, 2012
Taylor Swift was an easy winning again this week on the US chart. ‘Red’ sold 331,000 units and despite a 73% drop in sales from last week still managed to sell double the sales for no. 2’s Meek Mill debut.
November 7, 2012
According to a statement on their website, Billy Hyde Stage Systems is now an independent company, with Soundwave/Harvest Backline Manager, Billy Hibben, announced as national manager.
November 6, 2012
Apple Inc now legally owns the Apple Corps logo. The Californian computer company now controls The Beatles iconic Granny Smith.
November 6, 2012
Music Victoria will bring live music to Melbourne’s Tullamarine International Airport during the busiest two weeks of music in the city.
November 5, 2012
When Garbage released ‘Not Your Kind Of People’ this year it was their first album together in seven years.
November 4, 2012
In Noise11 music news this week the story of PSY’s ARIA dominance generated the most eyeballs and news of the Black Sabbath tour came in a close second.
November 4, 2012
Taylor Swift remains “Red” for a second week at No.1 on the ARIA Albums chart this week, becoming her longest run at the top of our charts, as her previous No.1 “Speak Now” only lasted one week at the top back in November of 2010. The album also selling enough this week to pick up a Platinum sales certification.
November 4, 2012
PSY’s sixth week at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with “Gangnam Style” elevates the song to equal second longest running chart-topper for 2012, matching the six weeks achieved by “Wild Ones” for Flo Rida and Sia (Jan/Feb) and then “Battle Scars” for Guy Sebastian and Lupe Fiasco (Aug/Sept).
November 4, 2012
Gary Clark Jr is the first featured artist in the Grammy.com interview series The Word Up From Down Under, with Noise11.
November 3, 2012
MusiCares has established a fund to support people in the music community affected by Hurricane Sandy.
November 3, 2012
The 2012 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards were presented on Thursday night, with Six60 staying true to their name by winning six Tuis, including Single of the Year and Best Group, while Kimbra took home five awards, including Best Female Solo Artist and Album of the Year, for her internationally successful Vows.
November 3, 2012
Alternative indie pop quartet, Alt-J, last night won the highly coveted U.K. Barclaycard Mercury Prize for their debut album, An Awesome Wave.
November 2, 2012
First round nominations for the 2012 J Awards have been announced today, with Tame Impala amongst the nominees for Australian Album of the Year and Goyte nominated for Australian Music Video of the Year.
November 2, 2012
Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar's album, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, has had a huge week in the U.S., debuting with more than 241,000 in sales and giving him the highest selling album for a new artist in 2012.
November 1, 2012 With over 1.2 million copies downloaded last week, Taylor Swift's latest album, Red, has scored the highest SoundScan sales week in over a decade and has set the record for the highest worldwide digital album sales debut in iTunes history.
November 1, 2012 Clare Bowditch will team up with Christine Salem of Reunion Island and Kutcha Edwards will perform with Boubacar Trare of Mali for the Australasian World Music Expo next week in Melbourne.
October 31, 2012
George Lucas has sold his company Lucasfilms to Disney, passing on his Star Wars empire to a new generation of film makers.
October 31, 2012 Taylor Swift ‘Red’ will sell over 1,000,000 units in its first week on sale in the USA.
October 30, 2012
Ford has chosen John Farnham to sell its new SYNC technology but the advertising industry is torn between “brilliant” and “horrid”.
October 28, 2012
Sydney is promised “a mad burlesque of circus” when Pacha opens at the ivy nightclub soon.
October 28, 2012
Hungry Kids Of Hungary and Emma Louise have joined the Bee Gees, Powderfinger and Savage Garden with their own stars in the Walk Of Fame in Brisbane’s Brunswick St Mall in Fortitude Valley,
October 28, 2012
The last show star publicist Suzie Howie worked on was A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. At the opening night performance last night in Melbourne, she was farewelled with a standing ovation.
October 28, 2012
Bluesfest’s Peter Noble has caught his “great white whale”. After years of persevering Robert Plant will play at Bluesfest in 2013.
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