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Exclusive: Max Watt's expands with a new booking and marketing team
Max Watt's operates successful venues in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, and to cope with the very welcome flood of extra work, they have appointed new booking and marketing teams. Nathan Farrell of…

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Exclusive: Max Watt's expands with a new booking and marketing team
Max Watt's operates successful venues in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, and to cope with the very welcome flood of extra work, they have appointed new booking and marketing teams. Nathan Farrell of…

Hayley Williams settles songwriting lawsuit with ex-Paramore bassist
Hayley Williams has settled a lawsuit with Jeremy Davis, ex-bassist for Paramore, who claimed she and the band's guitarist Taylor York removed his name from official writing credits, therefore…

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Hayley Williams settles songwriting lawsuit with ex-Paramore bassist
Hayley Williams has settled a lawsuit with Jeremy Davis, ex-bassist for Paramore, who claimed she and the band's guitarist Taylor York removed his name from official writing credits, therefore…

China's biggest EDM festival is set to storm the Australian market
While a number of international music festivals have attempted to enter the massive Chinese market over the past few years, China's largest homegrown EDM festival, Budweiser Storm, is looking to…

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China's biggest EDM festival is set to storm the Australian market
While a number of international music festivals have attempted to enter the massive Chinese market over the past few years, China's largest homegrown EDM festival, Budweiser Storm, is looking to…

Early MP3 pioneers eMusic are back with a new indie-friendly model
Back in the dark ages of 1998, eMusic offered up one of the first online music subscription services: you would pay a monthly fee, and be able to download a number of DRM-free MP3s straight to your…

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Early MP3 pioneers eMusic are back with a new indie-friendly model
Back in the dark ages of 1998, eMusic offered up one of the first online music subscription services: you would pay a monthly fee, and be able to download a number of DRM-free MP3s straight to your…

Aussie musicians can now insure themselves against injury or illness
APRA AMCOS have announced a new insurance policy which will take some of the worry and uncertainty out of being a musician. Through insurance agency Aon, the Musicians Support Policy offers…

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Aussie musicians can now insure themselves against injury or illness
APRA AMCOS have announced a new insurance policy which will take some of the worry and uncertainty out of being a musician. Through insurance agency Aon, the Musicians Support Policy offers…

Niall Horan and Nick Cave set for top ten debuts
It's shaping up to be a fairly uneventful week on the ARIA charts, with no real splashes from new entries, nor noteworthy surges up either chart. The only probable top ten debut on the Albums Chart…

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Niall Horan and Nick Cave set for top ten debuts
It's shaping up to be a fairly uneventful week on the ARIA charts, with no real splashes from new entries, nor noteworthy surges up either chart. The only probable top ten debut on the Albums Chart…

UK rock bible Kerrang! sold, with new owners looking to go global
Publisher Wasted Talent bought UK rock bible Kerrang! as part of a rush of new acquisitions, which includes long-dormant style and fashion magazine The Face, and the excellently-named brewing mag The…

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UK rock bible Kerrang! sold, with new owners looking to go global
Publisher Wasted Talent bought UK rock bible Kerrang! as part of a rush of new acquisitions, which includes long-dormant style and fashion magazine The Face, and the excellently-named brewing mag The…

Pandora subscriptions are up, but active users are down
Pandora presented their first quarter figures yesterday, and -- despite spinning things in a positive light, mostly due to a recent $150M cash injection -- it would seem that users are moving away…

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Pandora subscriptions are up, but active users are down
Pandora presented their first quarter figures yesterday, and -- despite spinning things in a positive light, mostly due to a recent $150M cash injection -- it would seem that users are moving away…

A beer has been created using urine collected at Roskilde Festival
Imagine. You're drunk at a music festival with your stupid mates, and you spot something cleverly named ‘From Piss to Pilsner’ - an initiative which aims to collect 25,000 litres of urine from…

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A beer has been created using urine collected at Roskilde Festival
Imagine. You're drunk at a music festival with your stupid mates, and you spot something cleverly named ‘From Piss to Pilsner’ - an initiative which aims to collect 25,000 litres of urine from…

Crisis time: WA event suppliers owed almost $3m by festival promoters
Western Australia's live music scene is in crisis, due to millions of dollars in debts owed by promoters of summer festivals. The President of the Events Industry Association of WA, Cassandra…

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Crisis time: WA event suppliers owed almost $3m by festival promoters
Western Australia's live music scene is in crisis, due to millions of dollars in debts owed by promoters of summer festivals. The President of the Events Industry Association of WA, Cassandra…

Adobe hikes up Creative Cloud prices for Australian students
Humans are creatures of habit, and once a habit is formed -- let's say, regarding what creative suite we master and use daily -- it is awfully hard to get us to change this behaviour without a very…

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Adobe hikes up Creative Cloud prices for Australian students
Humans are creatures of habit, and once a habit is formed -- let's say, regarding what creative suite we master and use daily -- it is awfully hard to get us to change this behaviour without a very…

Twitter moves further into video streaming with a rush of new partnerships
After this week's announcement of a partnership with Live Nation to stream a run of big name music concerts, Twitter are moving further from their 140-character beginnings with a host of other media…

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Twitter moves further into video streaming with a rush of new partnerships
After this week's announcement of a partnership with Live Nation to stream a run of big name music concerts, Twitter are moving further from their 140-character beginnings with a host of other media…
Reporting from inside the Australian music business since '94.
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