News links


 Australian Music Online
This site contains links to artist sites, information on new releases, CD reviews, interviews and record label links. The Australian Music Online site is one that I have just learned about, and it really shows what a lot of information I have been missing.

Aus Music Scrapbook
Matt Atlee is the creator of the Aus Music Scrapbook. The Scrapbook features music news, reviews, an image gallery, and a fortnightly updated mp3 page. The scrapbook mainly promotes the lively Melboune music scene but is read by music peeps from all over Oz.
Oz Music Project
Australian music info! Mostly Indie Stuff. http://www.ozmusicproject.net
Mono.net
 Australian and New Zealand music information. Current updates on music from Oz and NZ, http://mono.net/ is truly useful!		  
Beat Magazine
Beat Magazine is a weekly arts and entertainment mag published out of Melbourne.
Triple J
The Aussies know what this radio station is all about but some of the local blokes tuning in to DUUO may not. If you have RealAudio you can listen in to TRIPLE J as I do every day while at work. They also have links to some other relevant sites. 
BTW, for those who are interested, Triple J is like the CBC but wwaayy cooler! 

Australian Music Info
This site is all about Australian music information and promotion, http://www.australianmusic.info/

Australian Music World Wide Web Site
If you are looking for a SEARCH ENGINE for Australian artist web pages this is one place to look.
http://www.amws.com.au/

Yahoo Music - Australia/NewZealand
Lynnie found this really great resource that provides information on bands from Australia. It is run by Yahoo Music and seems to be current.
Give it a try and see if it is useful for you
Immedia
Here one will find the e-zine known as In Music and Media - the source for much of the Australian music industry news that we talk about on DownUnder UpOver.

Buying Music

Chaos Music
Have a surf to CHAOS music. It is definitely worth checking out if you are shopping for Australian music and live in Oz

Charts and Miscellaneous

Australian Music Association
The Australian Music Association is all about nurturing the Australian Music Industry and we will endeavour to provide you with the most up to date information on all things pertaining tothe industry and help to keep your fingers on the pulse. They also publish Australian Musician magazine.

ARIA
Also known as the Australian Recording Industry Association If you follow the link you will get to their mainpage which has links to chart information and the ARIA Awards.
Australia Day
Find out about this very important day in Australian History
Australian Music Biz
The Oz Music Biz pages have a bunch of info on both mainstream and indie acts. Also, you can sign up to get the Australian music charts sent straight to your email inbox

Australian Music Charts
Looking for links to your favorite Australian band? Check out these pages.
MP3 DOT COM
GONE!
They've been bought by CNET ... dunno what this will mean for indie music promotion, but it could end up as something good. Let's wait a bit and see.

Record Labels

Rubber Records
Rubber Records is home to bands such as Icecream Hands, Oscarlima, Even, Sherry Rich, The Grapes, The Dumb Earth, Guven, Ricaine, Cordrazine, bZARK, Tweezer, Humbug.

Channel V
Channel [V] is the Australian Music Video station. According to Kristen: "Channel [v] is hell, i watch it all the time and my sisters get really pissed because all they want to watch is Nickelodeon. BLINK 182 rulz."

Trademark Records

Home to Area 7, the Hippos, hed, planet earth, the getup kids, Trademark Records has a Shockwave experience on their website. Upgrade or die...
AIAN 
It had been a while since I visited the Australian Independent Artists Network, but I'm glad I did. They have over 50 artists on their roster and a very well executed web page. 
You can hear RealAudio samples of their artists and more.

Swerve Records
 SWERVE Records have recently updated their web site and sent some amazing new material to us from Bloom, Little Murders and Quincey Mclean.

Australians Abroad
 As listed in Australians Abroad for Australians living overseas.

W. Minc
Sometimes I am really bad at getting information up here on the web site and at others I'm really good. We have been playing material from the W.Minc label for quite sometime and they are really worth checking out. Run by Steve Miller and Graham Lee, the label was responsible to putting out the very great "Where Joy Kills Sorrow" album featuring a whole bunch of your favorite twang artists (and others). Click the logo and check out the site. If there's one thing you should know I rarely do anything justice by description. See for yourself.
Shock Australia
Shock is a distributor of cool music.  On their roster are such bands as Frenzal Rhomb. Webster, Bodyjar and many others.  Check out their web page for tour dates and band info. 
Top 20 albums and top 20 singles/EPs for titles by Australian artists and released on independent labels.
Surf over and see how your fave Australian Independent musician is doing in the charts.

Q-Stik Records
Q-Stik Records are the home of fine Western Australian music. There is a fairly large and diverse selection of artists on the Q-Stick label including:
Kenny Bartley, Honey, Matthew de la Hunty, Fourth Floor Collapse, Lowdown, Living Room Sessions.

Popstar Records
This site for Popstar Records is very useful if you are looking into the indie scene in Australia. LInks to MP3s, Band Profiles, News and MORE!

Ross Wilson
Ross Wilson, has been in the music business for over his 38 years. Check out ross's rave on

Miles From Nowhere 
A great (and hard-working) Australian band that are not disimilar to Canada's The Barenaked Ladies. 
In other words, the lads in Miles from Nowhere have a great sense of humour and are musical geniuses. 
Check out there web site and see when they'll be in your town.

Noise For Heros
I was pointed to the NoiseForHeros label by Rob from the LIttle Murders after the site profiled the band. A very neat place with some great interviews and reviews of antipodean acts of all shapes and sizes.