On Friday March 9, 2012 the 2011 ISAAC awards were presented at the annual Indent Open Day – an educational mini-conference aimed at increasing the skills and knowledge base of young people who are interested in launching a career in the music and events industries. The ISAAC awards are an initiative of Indent, a project

MUSECOLOGY 2 is the second event in a series of site based musical performances curated by Daniel Stricker’s label Siberia Records and Jack Jeweller of Black and Blue Gallery. Pairing up with the City of Sydney, Musecology will incorporate four site-based performances happening at a variety of unusual Sydney locations during 2012. In the second installment

The Jezabels will be on an extensive international tour before returning back home in June 2012. Whilst on their tour they will be releasing their debut album Prisoner in the US, UK, Asia, Canada and Europe. The Jezabels have risen to incredible success in the last couple of years-they have been ARIA and APRA Award nominees, played big name festivals

The Multicultural Arts Forum at Carriageworks is happening on the 13 and 14 April and is encouraging all you artists, critical thinkers, academics and independents to have your own say on the state of multicultural arts practice in Australia.

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.