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Amyl And The Sniffers

Amyl And The Sniffers Drop Uncensored Clip Including Body Positive Full Frontal Nudity

ehole,” and the music video is a celebration of our bodies. The X-rated music video was directed by John Angus Stewart ( PHC Films ), the band's longtime collaborator. Fans ... Sniffers’ new album, Cartoon Darkness , will be released this Friday (25 October) via Virgin Music Group . You can pre-order/pre-save the album here . Melbourne record store Soundmerch will host

Industry / News

'Business As Usual' As Universal Music Group Acquires [PIAS] Group

world’s largest music company, Universal Music Group , has gotten even bigger with the news that it has finished acquiring the Belgian-born [PIAS] Group . The news comes years after ... long-term contract to remain as CEO of [PIAS] alongside sitting on the Virgin Music Group main board and advisory group. “I am selling my shares not my soul,” Gates

Features / Interviews

The Blessed Madonna

The Blessed Madonna On Debut LP 'Godspeed': 'I've Always Wanted More. I'm Greedy For Heart'

year. It traverses disco, house, and Green Velvet-mode techno. Indeed, Stamper's music is upfront and steeped in house's cultural heritage. Stamper's curation is astute – starting with ... smartbar . Along the way, Stamper assumed an alias inspired by Christian icons of the Virgin Mary – The Black Madonna. Stamper eased into production, breaking out with 2012's overground Exodus

Features / Music

The Beatles

Easy With Eyes Closed: 10 Beatles Songs That The Beatles Hated

Pepper album was...a weak track that we all winced at. It had minimal musical content that seemed to go nowhere.” Martin dismissed Harrison’s output until Here Comes ... greater insight into where those lyrics came from. It had started life as Virgin Mary, with the religious theme using lines as "Sunday morning creeping like

Industry / Feature

The Amity Affliction, Tina Arena

Pressing Re-Record: Why Do Acts Reimagine Their Singles & Albums?

unreleased demos brought them back into the charts. When Prince ’s beef with Warner Music was at its height, the singer-songwriter re-cut 1999 (in the year ... with 2,000 overdubs. It was the first release on Richard Branson ’s new Virgin Records . Sales were initially slow, and when Branson tried to sell it to America

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift Breaks Record At 2024 VMAs

Atlantic Records May 2024: Laufey – Goddess – Laufey / AWAL June 2024: LE SSERAFIM – EASY – SOURCE MUSIC / Geffen Records July 2024: The Warning – Automatic Sun – Lava / Republic Records VMAs Most Iconic ... Records Coldplay – Atlantic Records Imagine Dragons – KIDinaKorner / Interscope Records NCT Dream – SM Entertainment / Virgin Music Group NewJeans – ADOR / Geffen Records SEVENTEEN – PLEDIS Entertainment / Geffen Records TOMORROW X TOGETHER – BIGHIT MUSIC

Features / Music

Your Ultimate Guide To BIGSOUND 2024

Your Ultimate Guide To BIGSOUND 2024

MDLBEAST (SA) Taylor James - Lemon Tree Music (AU) Tim Blunt - TRANSGENRE (AU) Tim Janes - Virgin Music Group (AU) Tim Shiel - Double J / ABC (AU) Tom Larkin - BIGSOUND / Tiny Triumphs Management

Industry / Feature

Amyl And The Sniffers

Simone Ubaldi & Andrew Parisi On The Rise And Rise Of Amyl And The Sniffers

market. Their third album , Cartoon Darkness , will be released globally on October 25 through Virgin Music Group in Australia and the US and Rough Trade for the rest

Amyl And The Sniffers Detail New Album 'Cartoon Darkness,' Drop Single 'Chewing Gum'

Steven Ogg ), which the band released in May. Cartoon Darkness will be released via Virgin Music Group on Friday, 25 October. Produced by Nick Launay ( Nick Cave

Features / Interviews

3% On NIMAs & Their Debut LP: 'We Made The Album That Needed To Be Made At This Moment In Time'

into a side that I've never felt comfortable tapping into with music," he confides. "This is a side of myself I always kept reserved just ... debut album, KILL THE DEAD, will be released tomorrow via 1788 Records and Virgin Music Group. You can pre-order or pre-save the album here . 3% have been nominated

Industry / News

LUUDE Starts His Own Label

partnership with the producer’s longtime management agency Cloak , with distribution coming courtesy of Virgin Music . A press release notes that No Instruction aims to create “legitimate moments for artists

Industry / News

Spotify DJ

Aussies Cash In As More Indie & Mid-Tier Acts Create Buzz In Music Streaming

sold-out dates around the world. The findings were announced in The Midyear Music Report , published last week by US research company Luminate . This middle tier – the ones between unknowns ... Warner, Sony and Universal, and their indie divisions as ADA, The Orchard and Virgin. They were up 0.6 per cent. Haley Jones, Luminate’s Head of Independents, remarked

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