INMEDIA! have extended their early bird rate of registration for the AustraliAsian Music Business Conference until June 15! They have also added several new speaker/panelists to over 35 of our 50+ at 2009’s best music biz conference.

On 27 May APRA Announced its 2009 APRA Music Award nominees. Across all 8 categories including the coveted, peer-voted APRA SONG OF THE YEAR award, record numbers of nominees.

The Launch Squad and the newly renovated Grand Hotel are pleased to announce the return of the acoustic, and original music.

Sound Summit is looking for a creative, energetic and highly organised individual to work with the MusicNSW Creative Director , Eliza Sarlos, on the 2009 Sound Summit Festival.

The first Tooheys Extra Dry uncharTED Competition of 2009 is on now and is offering a chance to play at Splendour in the Grass as well as recieving a band development package worth $25,000.

Applications for the 2009 JBSeed Fund are already open and will close on Monday the 27th April, 2009. To celebrate its 5th birthday some new categories and opportunities have been added to the bill… BRAND SPANKIN NEW: • Partnership with The Falls Music and Arts Festival (both Lorne and Marion Bay) AND Southbound (WA). •

ART SOUNDS will be launched in Newcastle on Friday 13 February. ART SOUNDS is a free monthly program where exhibition spaces become music venues. Come and enjoy the sights and sounds and groove to a new beat. For full details see www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au ART SOUNDS is free, open to all ages, encourages new audiences for local

Well some say that it is more than a networking site, its a “musical revolution” but take what you will. Oz Jam has the potential to be something amazing connecting like minded peers and creative folk regardless of the genre they play – new styles, new movements, new bands, new tours who knows what will