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Martin Atkins
Face The Music Announce Speakers Martin Atkins And Almudena Heredero

Melbourne’s premier music conference Face The Music announce PiL’s Martin Atkins and Primavera Sound's Almudena Heredero.

September 13, 2012
Plan B, Noise11, Photo
Plan B And Richard Hawley Lead Mercury Prize Nominations

The annual UK ‘best album’ Mercury Prize announces its nominees for 2012.

September 13, 2012
Future Entertainment
EMI And Future Entertainment Team Up As Future Music

EMI have paired with Future Entertainment to release music and support dance artists as Future Music.

September 12, 2012
Steve Earle at BigSound 2012
Steve Earle To Write Memoirs For Autistic Son

Steve Earle has revealed that he is going back on one of his old rules and is writing finally his memoir.

September 12, 2012
David Humphreys
David Humphreys Farewell Set For Thursday

The funeral to bid farewell to Perth Arena and former Allphones Arena General Manager David Humphreys will take place on Thursday in Fremantle and then the following week in Sydney.

September 10, 2012
Paul Dainty - image by Ros O'Gorman
Paul Dainty And Vivian Lees Team For Two Worlds Touring

Promoters Paul Dainty and Vivian Lees have created a new joint venture called Two Worlds Touring.

September 10, 2012
Matchbox Twenty - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Matchbox Twenty Have The Number One ARIA Album

Matchbox Twenty debut at No.1 with their fourth studio album “North” becoming their fourth of five charting albums to reach the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, plus it also achieves Gold sales status in its first week of release.

September 9, 2012
Guy Sebastian - Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo
Guy Sebastian Scores His Longest Number One ARIA Hit

Guy Sebastian’s “Battle Scars” becomes his longest running No.1 single of his six chart-topping songs here by staying atop the ARIA Singles chart for a fourth week, plus it also picks up a double platinum certification in the process.

September 9, 2012
Grulkefest
SXSW To Stream Grulkefest Live

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
David Byrne 2009: Photo By Ros O'Gorman
David Byrne To Headline Mona Foma

Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne will head to Tasmania to headline the Mona Foma Festival in Hobart in January.

September 8, 2012
Alpine: Photo Ros O'Gorman
Alpine Score US Deal

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, Noise11, Photo
The Sapphires Earns $10m At Box-Office

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 Kelly - Image By Damien Loverso, Noise11, Photo
Paul Kelly, Bamboos, Lanie Lane To Perform At 2012 Independent Music Awards

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
Live Nation Australasia Appoints Bec Sutherland To Comedy Division

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
David Humphreys
R.I.P. Perth Arena Boss David Humphreys

The Australian music industry is in shock following the sudden passing of David Humphreys in Perth this morning (September 4, 2012).

September 4, 2012
Birdy
Birdy Replaces The Sapphires As Top ARIA Album

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 - Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo
Guy Sebastian Scores An ARIA Hat Trick

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
Michael Chugg, Chugg Entertainment
Chuggi Predicts Billy Thorpe The Hologram For Long Way To The Top

The late, great Billy Thorpe may appear as a hologram on the upcoming Long Way To The Top shows.

September 1, 2012
MCM
MCM Entertainment Group To Delist From Australian Stock Exchange

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
Catherine Britt: Photo by Ros O'Gorman
BIGSOUND Conference Is A Sell-Out

The BIGSOUND music conference for Brisbane from September 12 has completely sold out.

September 1, 2012
AWME 2012
Australasian Worldwide Music Expo Announces Scholarship Program

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
Diddy, Mariah Carey Manager Chris Lighty Shoots Himself Dead

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
Grulkefest
SXSW Presents Grulkefest To Honor Brent Grulke

SXSW will present Grulkefest, an event to honor SXSW director Brent Grulke who passed away in Austin two weeks ago.

August 28, 2012
Save Our Sando
AC/DC, Angels, Rose Tattoo Members Tell Commonwealth Bank To Fuck Off

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 Sapphires, Noise11, Photo
The Sapphires Remains ARIA Number One Album

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 and Lupe Fiasco on set
Guy Sebastian Maintains Top Spot On ARIA Singles Chart

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
Apple
Samsung Copied Apple Court Rules

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
David Mott
David Mott Departs Ten

Network Ten has announced the departure of Chief Programming Officer David Mott.

August 24, 2012
Mia Dyson
Mia Dyson Added To BigSound

Mia Dyson is a last minute addition to the BigSound music conference and festival.

August 23, 2012
Allans Billy Hyde
Billy Hyde and Allans Placed Into Receivership

Iconic Australian music retailer Billy Hyde and Allans has been placed into receivership.

August 23, 2012