Nathan Jolly

It was fifty years ago today (well, this week) when Sgt. Pepper first taught the band to play, with The Beatles' dizzying 1967 opus being released to a stunned audience who either saw the album as…

The APRA and AMCOS Boards have announced that long-standing CEO Brett Cottle will step down from the role in June 2018. APRA Chair, Jenny Morris, said of the move: "After 27 years leading the…

When I went to Newcastle University back in the day, the bands who advanced through the local heats of the National Campus Band Competition needed one of the following key attributes: a) horns b)…

Call it either an anomaly or a troubling sign, but this week only two Australian artists are in the ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart. 'Waves' by Dean Lewis sits at #16, while Bliss N Eso's 'Moments' is at…

Club 77 was the target of what has been slammed as a pointless raid on Saturday morning, as roughly 15 NSW Police saw fit to storm the small inner-city club with a sniffer dog at 2am. Despite the…

Bluesfest Byron Bay has topped Billboard's Boxscore list, after grossing just shy of US$10M for the five-day festival. The Australian festival trounced big O2 arena shows by Bruno Mars and Ed Sheeran…

Sia hasn't toured Australia since 2011, the same year she appeared on David Guetta's 'Titanium' and 'Wild Ones' by Flo Rida, and subsequently shot to U.S. stardom. Since then she has carved out a…

A number of big moves by Spotify have led to speculation that the company is plotting to go public sooner rather than later. Firstly, the company settled a class action lawsuit with a number of…

Jimmy Barnes has revealed his second autobiography, Working Class Man, which will be published on October 23. The book is the natural follow-up to the searing, honest Working Class Boy, which details…

While the unholy reach of Apple Music has its obvious downsizes, one aspect that could have very positive ramifications is their Up Next campaign, which uses the company's reach to propel emerging…

Seventh Street Media -- publishers of this fine industry publication, along with the likes of The Brag, Tone Deaf, and J Play -- have just launched the Don't Bore Us website, an expansion of the DBU…

As we reported earlier, next week's ARIA Albums chart will be dominated by the work of the late Chris Cornell, with fans flooding to purchase and play his music as a way of mourning his loss, and…