Poppy Reid

Consumer rights watchdog CHOICE lambasted the Federal Government in July for considering a three-strikes policy as a potential tactic in helping to solve the ongoing copyright infringement problem in…

The lineup for the largest under 18s festival in Australia was announced overnight and while its sister festival Future Music shares many of its acts, Good Life may have discovered the key to…

Husky Gawenda, of Melbourne band Husky has taken out top honours for the annual Vanda and Young Songwriting Competition, taking home $50,000 from APRA AMCOS and Alberts. His April-recorded track,…

Australia s #1 B2B wholesaler Impulse Entertainment, who provide music and entertainment products to non-music retail outlets, has acquired online retailer The Music Shop. The Brisbane-based…

It has been almost a year since Sydney s lockout laws were passed by former Premier Barry O Farrell and according to a panel of speakers at yesterday s Electronic Music Conference (EMC), the…

ABC Music has teamed with country music artist Lee Kernaghan and producer/Sherbet backbone Garth Porter to pay tribute to Australian and New Zealand diggers on the 100th Anniversary of the ANZAC s…

There s no denying artists rights changed as soon as we entered the digital age, but while most view online music piracy as the illegal uploading and downloading of MP3 files, websites which publish…

:: ONLINE LYRIC LICENSING - PART ONE Bob Aird, Managing Director of Universal Music Publishing Australia, says that UMPG didn t assess Australian infringing lyric sites in the manner the NMPA did in…

Spotify Australia s annual Top Artists To Watch list has arrived with emerging exports like Hiatus Kaiyote, Tkay Maidza and Troye Sivan tipped to break next year. The list was compiled by the…

INXS linchpin Andrew Farriss will be bound to his home country through 2015 with the announcement he will teach and mentor students at The Australian National University (ANU) School of Music in…

Music video platform Vevo has reached a local milestone, having delivered 101.3 million monthly streams for the first time last month. According to Chris Derrick, Digital Director at Authentic…

American-Australian rock supergroup The Dead Daises will be the first international rock band to tour Cuba since the Obama government relaxed trade restrictions. The band is: Richard Fortus (Guns N…