Nathan Jolly

In the most high-profile Australian case of "just leave it the fuck alone" since INXS decided to replace their obviously irreplaceable vocalist, Divinyls members Mark McEntee, Richard Harvey and Rick…

Fair Trading Minister Matt Kean has vowed to halt the use of technology in ticket scalping, outlining plans to ban the use of automated bots to buy large quantities of tickets, to resell at inflated…

The Birth Of A Giant “Daniel just saw the opportunities of streaming music before anyone else.” – Mark Zuckerberg on Spotify’s Daniel Ek, The New Yorker. You wouldn’t think much of Daniel Ek if you…

If you're anything like me, you routinely ask buskers if they have filled out the required licensing paperwork to busk in a commercial zone, before feeling truly comfortable throwing a handful of…

Like most people who work in the music industry, I have written feverish fan fiction regarding the movements at major corporations - crazy 'what-if' tales about the CEO of Sony Music suddenly moving…

Soundcloud has been the subject of major concerns this week, with rumours that users have less than 50 days to download any music from the service before it disappears forever. The company has since…

Billboard's annual Money Makers list has revealed just how vital live touring is to a top tier musician's income. The latest figures show that over 75% of income generated by the top ten earning…

APRA AMCOS has launched Anatomy of an Album, a series of free live talks around the country in which the songwriters and producers of some of Australia's most-loved (or highly-anticipated) albums…

Eight speakers with over 50 years of combined SXSW history have today been announced for the annual SXSW Meet ’n’ Greets: at the newly-refurbished Lansdowne Hotel at 5:30 pm Tuesday August 1, and…

38 people in Belgium looked at the lineup for this year's Tomorrowland festival on whatever the Belgian equivalent of Tone Deaf is (or the Belgian equivalent of The BRAG if they are the type to pick…

Jay-Z loves rapping about those who have done him wrong, but soon he'll have to unleash a diss track about himself, as it seems like his exclusivity deal with his own streaming service will deny him…

Gin Wigmore has a love-hate relationship with streaming music. With Spotify. The New Zealander with the mighty voice is, like so many other recording artists, frustrated by the peanuts which rain…