Which raises some interesting questions about the mainstream appeal of streaming, and its price point. With Apple Music reportedly hitting 10 million users ‘opting in’ to the 3-month free trial, it will be interesting to see how many will translate into paying subscribers. Meanwhile the...
National department store chain and fashion powerhouse David Jones has collaborated with local musician and former Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns to create a truly innovative music video/fashion shoot hybrid titled ‘Shot By Sound’ where the cameras are sonically-triggered by the band’s instruments. It’s an exciting...
In August 1997, the infamous first-person shooter ‘GoldenEye 007’ hit the stores and fast became a defining classic in the era of cartridge gaming. Solidifying itself in pop culture history and changing the lives of video-gamers everywhere since, nearly 20 years later the game’s soundtrack...
The mammoth social media channel will be hosting native music videos in users’ news feeds, with Facebook making haste in licensing deals with major record labels so the pilot can kick off as soon as possible. With its users watching 4 billion videos per day,...
Having just opened registrations for 2015, Converse Rubber Tracks is a program designed to provide musicians with free access to some of the best studios in the world and assist cultural influencers on their paths to fame. Launching in 2010, Converse set up the original...
Coming across this new piece of tech was a pretty exciting moment: the notion of being able to mix/engineer your audio environment yields untold potential. Imagine being able to EQ your very own live concert experience, or precisely notch out the jarring sound of planes...
Heavy-handed copyright infringement lawsuits from major music labels might spell the demise of community-based Soundcloud. The music discovery platform has long been favoured by independent musicians as an incubator for talent, but ponderous monetisation attempts have marred its loyal users’ affinity for the platform. As...
‘Change The Ending’ from Gaslight Radio’s 2006 album ‘Good Heavens Mean Time’ was chosen for the Emporio Armani 2015 Fall/Winter campaign, proving once again that timeless music transcends boundaries both geographical and cultural. Serendipity meant the Melbourne band’s song was stumbled upon online by someone...
Thanks to developer Matt Daniels you can now play and recreate Hip Hop beats from J Dilla, Kanye West and 9th Wonder by chaining together original cuts from the songs they sampled. Whether you’re replicating or reinterpreting, Sample Stitch also allows a record function and...
Ever wondered which geographical location your favourite artist receives the most video views from? Monolithic video streaming business (and notorious hoarder of big data) YouTube has just unveiled Music Insights – a tool for tracking the digital footprint of artists’ fan bases across the globe....
Sprite’s long-time appropriation of Hip Hop culture (dating back to the mid-eighties with Kurtis Blow all the way through to their mid-90s ‘Obey Your Thirst’ campaign with underground luminaries Pete Rock, C.L. Smooth & Grand Puba) has just received a reinvigorating lease on life with...
Yours truly will be performing live from 255 Crown St, Darlinghurst this Saturday 1-3pm AEST for the The Record Store X AU Sound takeover banging out exclusives and unreleased dubplates spanning a healthy cross-section of bass-heavy genres. An opportunity to showcase all the amazing artists...
With so much fierce competition in the streaming sector, Apple should be well placed to capitalise on its commercialised audience base by providing exclusive content to differentiate itself from its rivals. Reportedly launching in late June alongside a revamped iTunes Radio with unlimited skipping as...
Turntablist pioneer and DMC world champion DJ Qbert (unrelated to the successful arcade video game for those who, like me, grew up in the golden age of the eighties) has teamed up with multinational giant Intel to revolutionise the DJ booth by ridding the all-too-familiar...