CALL OUT FOR PARTICIPANTS! Are you a young aspiring musician aged 16-25? Have you ever wondered how to write the perfect pop song? On Friday 16th October The Wingham Akoostik Festival pairs with our all-ages project Indent to run a specialised masterclass in songwriting with triple j’s high-rotation act Art vs Science!

Bondi BLYMP returns to Bondi Beach on Saturday 10th October! BLYMP is an under 18’s live music event featuring 5 upcoming young bands. The festival provides the young musicians with the chance to perform in front of a large varied audience. It takes place in The High Tide Room (at Bondi Pavilion) from 7:00pm-11:00pm, attracting around

Annual music industry conference Face The Music Conference returns this year and the first round of speakers have been revealed.

BIGSOUND have just added more speakers to their conference, including Pitchfork’s Jessica Hopper and WME’s Marc Geiger. Named as one of the 20 most influential people by industry bible Billboard, Marc Geiger is a partner and Head of Music WME Entertainment.  He looks after live bookings for some of the world’s biggest names including Jack

FBi Click are celebrating their first birthday at Goodgod Small Club on June 27! There will be a full venue takeover, with DJ sets from: Motorik, Picnic, Astral People, Purple Sneakers, Bare Necessities, Body Promise, Goodgod Sound Unlimited, Lazy Radio, Foreigndub Airwayvs, Thump … plus a special guest DJ set from Black Vanilla! EVENT INFO //

Annual music conference Bondi Wave has announced it’s industry speakers for 2015. Bondi Wave Music Industry Conference is a free conference happening on Friday 15 May at the Bondi Pavilion from 10am-4pm, and aims to provide it’s attendees with an overview on what you need to know to break it and make it into the

Presented by City of Sydney and Musica Viva Australia, this season of Late Night Library is about the connections between music and the written word. At Customs House Library, City Of Sydney on Wednesday 22 April between 8-9pm, a panel of composers (who write without words) and musicians (who do) will discuss how words and music collide in their work and influence

The Sydney Youth Music team are hosting their third gig, this time supporting Sydney’s hip hop scene and Youth Week in the City. The event will be held at Goodgod Small Club between 11-4.30pm on April 11, and headlined by breakdancer, rapper and writer Bam Bam, who’s mixtapes have already received 30,000+ downloads. Supports include Sydney-based

Indent, the crew behind the annual Indent Tour, are inviting young event teams across NSW to submit expressions of interest to host the Indent Tour in 2015! Indent’s annual regional drug and alcohol free all-ages tour is the only tour of it’s kind in Australia.

Spectrum Now, an inaugural festival sponsored by The Sydney Morning Herald and presented by ANZ happening in Sydney between March 11-29, will be marking the anniversary of Gallipoli in a special WWI commemorative concert which includes Cathedra, a new work by celebrated young Australian composer Andrew Howes. Sydney Youth Orchestra will be performing the Australian