Indie Label Reveals What Each Streaming Service Pays Out Having learnt their lesson from the catastrophe wrought by the digital revolution, the old guard of the music industry seems to be about as on-board...
Politician Busted Selling $200K Of Fake Music Festival Tickets Belgium’s Tomorrowland has not only become the Mecca for all things dance music-related, but the pilgrimage to the legendary event has turned into a bucket...
Pandora’s Complicated Plan To Screw Musicians Has Been Approved As Tone Deaf previously reported, online streaming giant Pandora has been embroiled in a war against performer’s rights organisation BMI over the service’s royalty rates....
The Beatles Are Totally Overrated, Says Science It’s pretty much agreed upon that The Beatles changed everything. When they first burst onto the US music scene with their performance of ‘I Want...
Soulfest Is Officially Returning This Year Following a highly successful inaugural event last year, Soulfest organisers have confirmed that “Australia’s first ever neo-soul, jazz and hip hop festival” is preparing round...
Indonesian Band Pull Out Of Aussie Music Festival Over “Political Issues” An Indonesian metal band have cancelled an upcoming Perth appearance due to unspecified “political issues”. Speaking in a video posted to the Facebook page of...
Victorian Government Actually Just Delivered On Their Promise To Help Music The 2015-16 Victorian budget is set to see the state secure its place as the music capital of Australia once again, with the new government...
Major Labels Are Helping Young Musos Sell Out & It’s Giving Them A Future Levi Lennox is prolific. The young British hip-hop producer makes more beats than his star clients, which includes the likes of Wiz Khalifa, YG, and...
BIGSOUND 2015 Announce Massive First Speaker Lineup If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll know that BIGSOUND, one of Australia’s most prestigious annual music industry conferences, has just been growing each year and...
The 15 Biggest Hoaxes In Music History It’s fair to say that rockstars and those in the music biz are known to tell a fib or two and boy does this list...
The Production Gear Hermitude Couldn’t Live Without It’s safe to say that the Australian electronic music scene has blown up. The past five years has seen continually increasing global interest in the...
Here’s How Much Mark Ronson’s Going To Lose For Copying ‘Uptown Funk’ As Tone Deaf reported yesterday, ‘Uptown Funk’, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ 2014 mega-hit recently discovered five new writers, after members of The Gap Band...
