Poppy Reid

The Australian Radio Network (ARN) is targeting Gen X listeners by rebranding stations WSFM and GOLD. In a marketing campaign entitled Pure Gold, ARN has adjusted the playlists on both WSFM and GOLD,…

For the first time in seven years, Newcastle’s Fat As Butter Festival has been cancelled. The festival’s publicity agency Shake Appeal, which rebranded from Reckoning Entertainment last July, says…

More than two years since the band’s split and nine months since the release of frontman Shaun Diviney’s solo EP, Short Stack are back and already climbing the iTunes Chart. Unveiled last night on…

This week Canberra duo Peking Duk do the radio rounds in support of their fast-climbing single High, The Delta Riggs visit triple j ahead of their national tour and Glass Animals get snapped during…

All 57 recommendations put forward in the Live Music Matters action plan were unanimously endorsed at a Cultural and Community Committee meeting held at Sydney Town Hall last night. The report was…

“I’m not saying it’s not misogyny to say, ‘suck my dick before I slap you with it’. It is. But some girls want to hear that.” Malcolm McCormack aka Mac Miller is backstage at the Sydney leg of Big…

It’s been three years since the cancellation of Soundwave’s sister festival Soundwave Revolution polarised fans and media alike. The 2011 national festival was cancelled a month out and fans were…

The death toll of the vehicular manslaughter at SXSW is now three after a woman has died in hospital. 26-year-old Mississippi native Sandy Thuy Le was in critical condition when she was admitted to…

In a candid interview with the New Zealand Herald, Damon Albarn has said organisers at Big Day Out festival were the reason Blur pulled out of this year’s tour. "They [the organisers] weren’t being…

Six deaths at Future Music’s Malaysian leg has caused organisers to cancel the final day of Future Music Festival Asia. Kuala Lumpur Police confirmed media reports that six local festival-goers, aged…

In the wake of last night’s (AEST) vehicular manslaughter at South By Southwest festival in Austin, which left two people dead, a press conference was held at the scene to discuss today’s…

AIR, Sounds Australia and the PPCA will take members from Australian independent labels to Indie Week in New York this June. Last year the three industry bodies took a delegation of ten members to…