Music fans all over the world will be able to watch Grulkefest streamed live when SXSW pay tribute to the late Brent Grulke on Saturday night (September 8, 2012) from 6pm.
September 8, 2012
Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne will head to Tasmania to headline the Mona Foma Festival in Hobart in January.
September 8, 2012
Australia’s Alpine has scored an American deal with Votiv Records for the release of their debut album ‘A Is For Alpine’.
September 7, 2012
The Sapphires is by far the most successful Australian movie of the year with news it has now grossed over $10 million at the Australian box-office in four weeks.
September 6, 2012
Paul and Dan Kelly, The Bamboos with Tim Rogers, Lanie Lane, and more will perform at the 2012 Jagermeister Independent Music Awards.
September 5, 2012
Live Nation Australasia has announced it is setting up a full-time comedy division with Bec Sutherland heading the new comedy division team.
September 5, 2012
The Australian music industry is in shock following the sudden passing of David Humphreys in Perth this morning (September 4, 2012).
September 4, 2012
Back in May 2011, The Wombats debuted and peaked at No.2 in Australia with their second album “This Modern Glitch”, which is on the 14th Floor Records label (through Atlantic/Warner here).
September 2, 2012
Guy Sebastian keeps his “Battle Scars” at No.1 in Australia for a third week, matching the three week run at the top of his first No.1 “Angels Brought Me Here” (Dec 2003).
September 2, 2012
The late, great Billy Thorpe may appear as a hologram on the upcoming Long Way To The Top shows.
September 1, 2012
MCM Entertainment Group (MEG), the production company behind Take 40 Australia, has announced that it plans to delist from the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).
September 1, 2012
The BIGSOUND music conference for Brisbane from September 12 has completely sold out.
September 1, 2012
The Australasian Worldwide Music Expo (AWME) has announced the 2012 national scholarship program for artists, artist managers and arts workers to attend the 5th music expo in Melbourne in November.
August 31, 2012
Chris Lighty, manager of Diddy, Mariah Carey, Ja Rule and 50 Cent, shot himself dead in the street outside his Bronx apartment on Thursday (August 30, 2012).
August 31, 2012 SXSW will present Grulkefest, an event to honor SXSW director Brent Grulke who passed away in Austin two weeks ago.
August 28, 2012
Members of AC/DC, The Angels, The Choirboys and Rose Tattoo formed a supergroup on the back of a flatbed truck in Sydney yesterday to send a message to the Commonwealth Bank. “Am I ever going to bank with the Commonwealth again/no way, get fucked, fuck off”.
August 27, 2012 The Soundtrack to the film “The Sapphires” stays at No.1 for a second week, whilst it was also again at No.2 for a second week on the Australian Box Office report, only dropping 17% from the previous weeks box office receipts (most second week films drop dramatically, so 17% is a good thing).
August 26, 2012
Guy Sebastian stays at No.1 for a second week with his sixth chart-topping single “Battle Scars”, picking up a Gold sales certification and it becomes his third consecutive two-week-running No.1 track, as “Like it Like That” (Sept 2009) and “Who’s That Girl” (Dec 2011) both spent two weeks at the top.
August 26, 2012
Samsung has been ordered to pay Apple $1 billion after a landmark trial has found that Samsung infringed on Apple’s copyright in making smartphone.
August 25, 2012
Network Ten has announced the departure of Chief Programming Officer David Mott.
August 24, 2012
Mia Dyson is a last minute addition to the BigSound music conference and festival.
August 23, 2012
Iconic Australian music retailer Billy Hyde and Allans has been placed into receivership.
August 23, 2012
Jason Derulo and Kelly Rowland are suddenly out of work today after Channel Ten axed its big budget reality show dance contest Everybody Dance Now.
August 21, 2012 Guy Sebastian scores his sixth No.1 single in Australia by debuting at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with his new track “Battle Scars”. He now sits in third position on the list of ‘Aussie’s with the Most No.1’s’ behind Delta Goodrem with eight and Kylie Minogue with ten.
August 19, 2012 The new Australian feature film “The Sapphires” debuted at No.2 on the box-office report last week (with $2.475 million behind Dark Knight Rises’ $2.9 million), and this week on the ARIA Albums Chart, the soundtrack jumps up to No.1 becoming the first film soundtrack to make it to No.1 this decade, and the first locally produced soundtrack in over eleven years to claim a No.1 spot.
August 19, 2012
It’s a bumper week, with everyone from Bloc Party to Ricki-Lee to Yeasayer to The Wiggles releasing new albums.
August 17, 2012
Songs performed and played at the Olympic Closing Ceremony yesterday are dominating the UK iTunes chart today (August 14).
August 14, 2012
There is sad news for the music industry to report this morning. Brent Grulke, the creative director of SXSW, has died at the age of 52.
August 14, 2012
The first details for the 2012 Jagermeister Independent Music Awards have been announced.
August 13, 2012
The Medics, Gurrumul and Jimmy Little were all honoured last night (August 11) at the National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAS) in Darwin.
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