The Art Music Awards are returning this year, recognising some of the best talent in contemporary art music, jazz and experimental music this country has to offer. Presented by APRA and The Australian Music Centre, the Art Music Awards will be held on Tuesday April 3 at The Playground Theatre, Sydney Opera House.  This year

The team at Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) are bringing us the first ICEbreaker for 2012 on Wednesday February 29. ICEbreaker is a workshop discussing the financial ins and outs of your creative practice. Special guests Peter Knight (Knight Parters) and Duncan Underwood will share a few tips on how to best get your creative

Over the last two years Lion Mountain studio has been skilling young people up on songwriting, beat making and production within the four walls of a custom built cupboard studio at Marrickville’s Radio Skid Row. Now they are celebrating with the compilation release of Sounds of the Lion which showcases some of the best talent and native

Following the success of last years successful contemporary music program, Campbeltown Arts centre is launching Daorum: A Weekend of Creative Fire, their contemporary music program for 2012. This year the music program is being guest programmed by acclaimed Dr Matthew Hindson who has curated a group of highly talented international and national artists into the

Widely considered to be our countries premiere music industry conference, Song Summit is a three day creative, business development and networking conference now in it’s third year. It will be held as part of Vivid Sydney at the Sydney Convention Centre between 26-28 May 2012. Song Summit will feature live performances by international and home grown talent as well

Following a series of discussions with City of Sydney Youth Services and some key music industry patrons, MusicNSW’s Indent and the COS held a Youth and MusicRoundtable on January 24 which explored the opportunities and hurdles for maximising youth participation in live music in Sydney.

The annual Australian Music Prize (AMP) is creeping up on us again, with anticipation building around it as it was recently announced that American Rolling Stone’s David Fricke will be flying down to Australia to deliver the official keynote address at the award ceremony. The 2012 AMPS Amped Up In Conversation will be held at our

One of Australia’s favourite and most unique festivals has announced it’s lineup for the 2012 event. The St Jerome’s Laneway Festival will be returning February 5 at the Sydney College of the Arts with another noteworthy indie-lineup. The complete Laneway line up features 26 international artists in total; a number of which are, as festival organisers

The final list of Australian South By Southwest invitees has been announced, with 52 performing artists given the honour. The SXSW conference happens Tuesday 13 to Sunday 18 March, 2012 and is widely considered to be one of the biggest showcase/conferences in the music industry, with over 250 Australian artists submitted to be part of the showcase in

triple j are rolling out the red carpet again this year,  rewarding some of the best Australian musical talent this country has to offer. This year the three categories include: Album of the Year, Unearthed Artist of the Year and Music Video of the Year. Past winners have included Tame Impala, Sarah Blasko, The Presets, The Panics,