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TikTok
TikTok Returns To App Stores In The US
TikTok has returned to Apple and Google Play app stores in the US after President Donald Trump delayed banning the app, Billboard reports . Former President Joe Biden tabled ... popular social media app TikTok due to allegations that its Chinese technology firm owners, ByteDance , have access to the data of millions of Americans. Therefore, TikTok has been deemed
Features / Interviews
Vlads
Vlads: How This Gold Coast Band Went From 800 Followers To Ten Thousand In Two Weeks
content, and it just blew up. We'd tell each other that every TikTok, or every reel, was a lottery ticket. And if you could buy a thousand free lottery
Industry / Opinion
Stop Devaluing Music
OPINION: Tech Is The Patsy, Caught In The Major Label Strategy
Short-Form Video:  Once dismissed as unsustainable for artist careers, platforms like  TikTok  have become central to music promotion, with labels now investing in creator-driven marketing
Reviews / Live
AURORA
Live Review: AURORA @ Fremantle Prison, Fremantle
Freo as it becomes a portal in the prison to a perplexing dimension.  TikTok’s favourite Norwegian folklore song, Runaway, sees a blue spotlight burn down on the singer
Features / Music
Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners
Ten Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners Songs For New Fans
chart debut seven years later. Evergreen gained widespread recognition after going viral on TikTok last year and debuted at #15 on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs ... Alternative Songs. By August 2024, the song had soundtracked over 300,000 clips on TikTok. Speaking of TikTok, the band are good friends with American singer-songwriter and content creator
Features / Interviews
Ghost Care
Ghost Care Kickstart 2025 With A New Single And West Australian Tour
ready to cop some insults from the kids at school, from some jokes on TikTok. It's pretty funny. You guys are quite good at TikTok. Do you have
Features / Opinion
Music listening patterns graphic
Narrowing Of The Niche: Will Gen Z Music Consumption Continue On An Algorithm-Fuelled Path?
want people telling them about new music! They just get it from TikTok. And to that, while there’s obvious truth to TikTok being another major disrupter to music consumption ... admit that most new music they discover is through personalised playlists, as well as TikTok, as we already expect, the songs that have hit the hardest— the ones that
News / Music
Suzi
Suzi Unveils Anthemic New Single, 'Centrelink Summer'
track to arrive from the Naarm/Melbourne-based artist, and comes following some unexpected virality on TikTok over the summer. Having initially bought a $20 blow-up pool to stay cool between
News / Music
Bailey Pickles & Hugo Hui
Bailey Pickles & Hugo Hui Release Epic Rendition Of Owl City’s ‘Fireflies’ With A 200-Voice Choir
TikTok sensations and talented pianist and violinist duo Bailey Pickles and Hugo Hui have reimagined the iconic Owl City hit Fireflies with their own cinematic rendition featuring the Sydney Conservatorium ... Choir . Pickles and Hui have reached viral status time and time again on TikTok, with the former garnering 1.3 million followers on TikTok for his ability to play songs
News / Music
Jaycee
Perth Artist Jaycee 'Blown Away' After Hitting A Billion Streams In China
RedNote , a prominent social media platform that’s now recognised as a substitute for TikTok following the controversial US ban (and unban) of the video-sharing app.  But Jaycee ... stranger to TikTok either, having achieved virality on the app in 2022 following a 15-second remix of the Peppa Pig theme song.  “I pretty much turned the theme
News / Festivals
Concert crowd
Hello Sunshine 2025 Festival Cancelled
thank you for your understanding throughout this tough time. In a video posted to TikTok captioned with "super horrible news", the festival’s co-founder—who goes by Danny Rants
News / Music
itsjames (AKA James Guido)
itsjames “Makes Art For Art’s Sake” On His Cutting Edge Debut Single ‘Complex’
incessant need to create to keep the machine going. “Imagine a world where TikTok never existed and artists just made art for art’s sake,” the artist said