SLAM Day 2013 Slams It
The national SLAM Day rally celebrates its strongest showing yet, with last weekend’s events hammering home the fact that live music and small gigs are an ever-vital part of Australia’s cultural economy. Save Live Australia’s Music (SLAM) is a collective of non-politically aligned, independent, local music-loving citizens. SLAM Day is a campaign aimed at the ...
TAKE CONTROL
Want to take control of your acts’ futures but didn’t quite make the managers development program cut for last year? AMIN and the Association of Artist Managers (AAM) are pleased to announce the release of a series of podcasts recorded during the CONTROL program last November. Featuring discussions and workshops given by some of Australia’s ...
SHUFFLING SOUNDS
Sounds Australia has been shaking it up this year, with a number of announcements boding well for the Australian music industry. For one, live music advocate and policy consultant Dr Ianto Ware (pictured) has been announced as the first National Live Music Coordinator for Sounds Australia. “The 2012 Federal Budget provided additional funding to the ...
MUSIC SLAMMING
On 23 February 2010, the SLAM Day rally saw 20,000 people march through Melbourne to the tune of AC/DC’s definitive Long Way To The Top in protest against the Victorian Government’s misguided policy link between live music and violence, going down as the largest cultural protest in Australia’s history. Last year the movement expanded, National ...
AMRAP LOOKS AHEAD
The Australian Music Radio Airplay Project aka AMRAP have thanked everyone that supported the campaign to have their government funding temporarily reinstated. AMRAP distributes new Australian music to 1,500 broadcasters and 300 community radio stations, and thankfully the Minister for Broadband, Communications & The Digital Economy Senator Stephen Conroy gave the project a welcome Christmas ...
BIG LITTLE NEWS
An Australian icon, Jimmy Little’s legacy is as large as the country he lived in, running deep within the wider community. A proud indigenous artist who was always the first to give something back to the industry that helped him become a household name, Little’s legacy will be continued with assistance from Warner Music Australia ...
BIG, BIGSOUNDS
Set to fill Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley with an impressive array of sounds Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 September, BIGSOUND Live 2013 is now calling for artist applications. Giving Australian and international artists the rare opportunity to perform in front of some of the most influential figures in the international music industry, the two-night music festival ...
RECORD SETTING COUNTDOWN
With the last year seeing even a major music chain like HMV going down the gurgler internationally, supporting your local record store has arguably never been more important. With this in mind, for the fifth year running, Record Store Day Australia is set to hopefully again pull record crowds into record stores across the nation. ...
GRAMMY GOODNESS
Whilst Ivan Gough, Feenixpawl and Georgi Kay’s nomination in the Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical award category was unfortunately beaten out on the night, Gotye did have better ‘luck’, taking home three awards at the recent Grammy awards in the US. The APRA Ambassador and all-round nice guy Wally de Backer aka Gotye made music history, ...
