CMW 2007 OPENS NOMINATIONS FOR INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS: THE INDIES Deadline for nominations – November 15, 2006 10/3/2006 Canadian Music Week (CMW) is calling all independent recording artists to apply for The Indies – the 2007 Independent Music Awards. The event will kick off the CMW 07 festivities held in Toronto on Wednesday, March 7,

Whichway night at the Sydney Opera House MusicNSW and Whichway in conjunction with the Sydney Opera House Studio will be presenting a night of the Best of NSW Indigenous contemporary music artists on Thursday February 15th 2007. The night will showcase the best in Soul, funk and Hip Hop with a dash of country. performers

FBi’s BLOCK PARTY IS ON NOW – a massive ‘call to arms’ for FBi listeners to take the plunge and become FBi supporters. FBi isn’t a commercial radio station, but they still pay commercial rates for everything. It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to keep FBi on air, and nearly half of

Sonicbids has an excellent opportunity for artists to get onto next year’s East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival . The 18th Annual East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival will be held over the Easter long weekend in the NSW north coast beachside town of Byron Bay at Red Devil Park from Thursday 5th

The inaugural AIR Charts Awards, presented by V Energy Drink, will be held on 29th November at the Blacket Hotel in Sydney. The AIR Charts Awards will honour outstanding achievements in sales by Australian independent artists – specifically those artists who are released through an Australian owned independent record label and also distributed through an

If you’ve been thinking about applying for SxSW 2007, you best get cracking. Applications close October 27th. It’s only $26 to apply now online and not have to send a package to Austin as was the case previously.All the details are on the SxSW Australian site, follow the link. For further information, contact Phil Tripp

Freelance Success is a unique workshop teaching business skills to creative people who work for themselves. If youve ever thought that you should learn more about how to manage your freelance creative career and maximize the amount of money you could be earning, Freelance Success is the course for you! Over 6 sessions we look

2ser’s annual Radiothon runs from October 20 – 27 and invites you to “support a higher frequency” by becoming a 2ser subscriber. 2ser is a community station that broadcasts to the greater Sydney area on 107.3FM and worldwide via online streaming. As they are not for profit and receive no government funding, they rely on

If turning your radio onto 94.5 wasn’t enough for you, you now can listen to FBi via a whole xxxtra medium – the world of PODCASTING. Whether it’s for playback on an iPod or any other mp3 player – or even on your hard drive – you can now download FBi content to playback whenever

APRA is gathering information for the Australia Council to help better understand and identify the issues that affect Indigenous musicians and songwriters in Australia. Indigenous musicians and songwriters are invited to meet Ebony Williams, APRA’s Indigenous Project Officer, in Brisbane from Wednesday 18th – Friday 20th October. Ebony will be hosting a number of small