Missy Higgins has the number one album in Australia this week after 15,321 fans went out and bought her ‘The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle’ album in the past week.
June 10, 2012
Shock launches their new Halfcut label with heavyweight releases from Gallows, Heroes For Hire and While She Sleeps.
June 6, 2012
Canberra’s electronic music band The Aston Shuffle have signed a publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing.
June 6, 2012
Australia has a new Cock Rock band and the name of the band is Jackson Firebird.
June 6, 2012
Microsoft have dumped touted iPod-killer Zune for a new Xbox Music service.
June 5, 2012
Radio station 2ST, based in the NSW city of Nowra, turns 40 years old today.
June 4, 2012
Pretty faces on screen help boy band sensation One Direction hit the top of the DVD charts and go six times platinum.
June 4, 2012
John Mayer leads a refreshed line-up on this week’s ARIA Chart wrap.
June 4, 2012
Former Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer has earned $1 million towards her next projects through Kickstarter.
May 30, 2012
A leading Australian philanthropist has backed the annual New Year’s Falls Music And Arts Festival.
May 30, 2012
Gotye’s award winning year continues with his latest grab, the honors at the APRA Music Awards.
May 29, 2012
Why are people in the music industry even watching that piece of crap called The Voice? The Voice, like Australian Idol before it, is a shallow TV template that is designed to generate ratings for TV and revenue for production houses, not careers for artists.
May 28, 2012
The Temper Trap’s self-titled album has debuted at number one in Australia. Not only that, it was the only album in Australia to sell more than 10,000 units last week.
May 28, 2012
A consortium led by Paul Dainty has acquired the assets of Aztec Music. Aztec was placed into receivership in March, 2012.
May 26, 2012
Moruya, NSW band Break A Leg have become the 5th and final act to be named for the Red Bull Bedroom Jam.
May 25, 2012
British electronic music label Cr2 has set up shop in Australia.
May 23, 2012
Music streaming giant Spotify has officially launched in Australia.
May 22, 2012
The Voice pushes Keith Urban’s new compilation to the top (and contestants debut well) in this week’s chart wrap.
May 21, 2012
Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 62.
May 21, 2012
Paul Kelly has been named coach of the Rockdogs football team for the third year running for the 2012 Reclink Community Cup. Dan Sultan will captain the team.
May 19, 2012
The 57th Ivor Novello Awards have been announced. Ed Sheeran got one, so did PJ Harvey and Adele got the big one for Songwriter of the Year.
May 18, 2012
It appears the Byron Bay council in their wisdom have allocated a quota for the number of Festivals allowed in the town and that means shows meant for Byron Bay cannot go ahead because the quota has been filled.
May 17, 2012
The DMG radio network has opened up the cheque-book and signed Michael Buble as the face of their Smooth FM stations.
May 17, 2012
Adele ‘21’ is number one again in Australia making it 32 weeks in total on top of the Australian chart.
May 14, 2012
After 12 years, Bill Walsh of Cosmic Psychos fame has sold his share in Melbourne’s iconic Cherry Bar.
May 11, 2012
Following the death of Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boys get seven albums back in the Billboard 200.
May 10, 2012
Tickets for George Michael’s Australia tour went on sale at midday today and by 12:15pm almost 50 tickets were being scalped on eBay for up to 300% above face value.
May 10, 2012
The company behind Creamfield’s, the world’s big electronic music festival, has been acquired by Live Nation.
May 10, 2012
Gotye feat. Kimbra’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ video has passed the 200,000,000 YouTube views benchmark.
May 9, 2012 When Amanda Palmer took to Kickstarter.com to raise money for next album she raised over $100,000 in the first week. One week in, she has raised $598,142. Before the end of this month, Amanda Palmer may very well raise $1,000,000. That is a lot more than what a major label would put up these days.
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