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company Coopers have been announced as the major naming rights sponsor of The Australian Music Prize – or The Amp. The $30,000 music prize, for the best local album

actually re-learnt all that stuff, which I gotta say is pretty intense. Music written while you're not getting laid regularly, you know?” he laughs. “So your downstroke ... puff piece, bro.” It was helmed by Sam Peacocke, a young Berlin Film Festival prize-winning director. “He was more interested in, 'How does this all work, this whole band

campaigns. It's a perfect fit. The music is catchy without being irritating. It's young and vibrant and contains a certain Australian-ness to the sound. “I know ... radio. Taking out triple j's BIGSOUND competition, an initiative from Unearthed, their prize included an industry showcase gig in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley. For a garage band

Coupland, whose ten-sometimes-19-piece swing band The Velvet Set are (inevitably) the musical centrepiece, admits, “was playing internationally in a casino, and I'd made some enquiries into ... said, 'I'm coming to Sydney, there are a couple of Australian productions I'm interested in'. One of them was Smoke & Mirrors , a fabulous show, and the other

Details of this year's Jagermeister Independent Music Awards have just been announced, with the ceremony once again set for October and returning to its 2011 location ... Best Australian Independent Label prize being awarded for the first time, looking to recognise the efforts of the companies that are able to make independent music thrive the way that

Beck”. The album has already won the Choice Music Prize for Album of the Year – Ireland's equivalent of the Mercury Prize – the second time the band ... award, with their Ritual album of 2008 winning the prize as well, and it looks like Australia is the next territory the band are hoping to conquer. The deal with

Entriesfor this year's Australian Music Prize - The Amp - are now open and as theMusic.com.au revealed last week , this year's competition will be free to enter. Today's official ... entrant if you are Australian. For the purposes of The 8th Australian Music Prize, we define Australian as: • being an Australian citizen / passport holder OR • currently residing in Australia

selection of love songs from their album All Through The Winter. Their music draws from the folk influences of yesteryear, but with clear and tender two-part vocal harmonies that ... Although Mitchell has grown up since we first encountered her as a teenager on Australian Idol in 2006, her stage presence retains a certain awkwardness that is kind of cute

like making the music video? It didn't really start as a music video! We were just chilling with the guys at Scotty's playing a few songs, and Oppy ... check every one of these bands out! Many people describe both Sydney and Australian pop punk as a struggling scene. What are your views on this? It definitely is, there