Industrial Strength

Warner joins Sony in selling its Spotify shares; Phil Jamieson sets an example for Dry July; charges laid over the 2016 death of Darwin musician Peter Bonnell and Dark Mofo continues to break its own ticket sale records.

Australia ahead of the tech game; Andrew Farriss pens diggers' tribute; Maitland cops give GTM punters thumbs up; Eurovision have banned some weird items

The Echo Awards fiasco continues, a lead has finally been chosen for Elton John biopic, Lorde gets a weird nomination and more.

One-day screen of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds movie estimated to gross over £1 million, Big Deal Music’s podcast returns, and more.

FUTURE CLASSIC UNVEIL NEW STUDIO Independent Aussie operators Future Classic have launched their new recording studios in Los Angeles (pictured above). The big reveal came in the form of a video…

Including news on Good Charlotte, Anna Laverty and more.

12 MILLION STREAMS FOR DEAN LEWIS’ ‘CHEMICALS’ The latest single from Dean Lewis, ‘Chemicals’, has clocked up 12 million streams according to his record company Island Records Australia. It’ll be…

LANEWAY ADDS BLOCK PARTY TO ITS RANKS Red Bull Music and record label I OH YOU have added a street Block Party to Laneway s stops in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle. Laneway co-founder…

MORE REASONS WHY AUSTRALIA NEEDS PILL TESTING AT FESTIVALS While various state governments hum and haw about introducing and funding pill testing at Australian music festivals, our cousins across the…

MORE INDUCTIONS FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA’S HALL OF FAME After inducting 85 South Australian-born artists in the past three years into the SA Music Hall of Fame, organisers the Australian Music Collective…