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The final stop on APRA AMCOS’ global run to celebrate their overseas songwriters was significant for a few reasons. As the furthest home away from home, the Australian and New Zealand artists who…

There's something to be said about the importance of female energy in the music industry. In a sector where emotions are the commodity and businesses are structured around heartstrings, a woman's…

The music industry has undergone a heck-load of rearrangement and evolution in the past few decades. The role of everyone from radio DJs to booking agents and record label heads has shifted. So how…

Handsome Tours' Mark Dodds speaks exclusively to TMN.

In the 1950’s, Harlan Howard coined a now oft-quoted phrase about country music: “Three chords and the truth”. Tonight’s attendees at the Global APRA Music Awards in Nashville know exactly what it’s…

The Melbourne singer-songwriter recorded at the legendary Roundhead studios.

With Sarah Aarons, Joel Little and Sia in attendance, it was fitting to have LA’s Grammy Museum play host to the Australian and New Zealand songwriting industry tonight. And while the inaugural…

'It’s exhausting, and it’s boring': Nathan Jolly unpacks Neighbouring Rights

As the Australian music industry reinvents itself to cope with changes in technology and consumer behaviour, there are some lessons it can learn from two industries it is most converging with, gaming…

Ducrou reflects on how Splendour In The Grass got its name, & more.