Last week the 2009 ARIA awards named their best of 2009, feature artist this month – Bertie Blackman took home a statuette for Best Independent Release.
First to accept SXSW 2010
25 Australian and 10 New Zealand Artists are the first to accept invitiations to showcase at South by South West music festival, in Austin Texas next year.
AIR Award Winners announced
In an award ceremony, rival to any great party, in Melbourne on Sunday November 22 the 2009 Australian Independent Record Association awards were named. Ten categories documented the 2009 Indepedent music scene in Australia to a whole host of stand out performances from Midnight Juggernaughts, Dappled Cities, Bertie Blackman, Philadelphia Grand Jury, Bridezilla, Kirsty Lee
TED unveils international collaboration The Lab
Tooheys Extra Day has unveiled it’s latest project The Lab, an initiative which will see one rising Australian musician fly to New York with world famous musician and producer Mark Ronson
Myspace partner with Merlin
Myspace Music, that launched a few months ago to scathing criticisms about the lack of independent music being represented, has hit back with a global partnership with indie music agency Merlin.
Australian Cultural Policy Future
Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett has launched an online forum wecoming feedback on the future of Australia’s Cultural Policy. The forum is attracting a colorful array of responses and gives an opportunity for you to be involved in “the shaping of Australia’s Cultural Future” says Garrett. There are three forum topics that you can
The AMP final call for entries
Last chance for those who have released albums in 2009 to enter the Australian Music Prize, entries close 5pm Friday 20th November.
ARIA Artisan Awards
Just ahead of the ARIA’s the Artisan awards happened on Tuesday November 10, recognising outstanding acheivements in production, engineering, videography and graphic design.
ABC to turn global
ABC Managing director Mark Scott has unveiled bold plans to launch ABC globally to meet the new era of globalisation and rival BBC and CNN services.
AMID Listings now open
Listings for the March 2010 edition of the AustralAsian Music Industry Directory (AMID) have now opened. The AMID is a directory of music industry contacts from legal to label, publishing to performing artists plus much more.