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Giglifeasia Launch New Travel Service, Partners with Wonderfruit

Giglifeasia, Asia’s first festival guide and one stop gig portal, has recently launched its new travel and booking service in partnership with Thailand’s third edition of Wonderfruit Festival. Festival goers can now find useful information about gigs, travel trips for featured city across Asia including Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, India, China, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. With this partnership, travellers can now purchase travel packages to Wonderfruit Festival, a festival that has grown exponentially in attendance since it launched its first edition in Pattaya, Thailand.  The…

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Believe Partners With DRM NZ

Believe Expands Label To New Zealand, Partners with DRM

The partnership will see DRM and their clients benefit from Believe’s distribution technology, analytics and extensive global network of 36 offices and 350 international digital music industry experts. This will not only develop international reach and visibility of New Zealand artists and labels but will also give a boost to the NZ music industry. “We’ve long admired Believe’s commitment to…

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SoundCloud appointed Holly Lim as its first ever Chief Financial Officer

New Appointment: SoundCloud Hires Google Executive

New Appointment: Finance Holly Lim has been appointed as SoundCloud’s first ever Chief Financial Officer, will officially begin her role on September 6. This announcement comes six months after SoundCloud hired Alison Moore, Chief Revenue Officer based in New York. In a statement released by SoundCloud, the ex-Google executive will be tasked to ‘maintaining our financial health’ when they announced Lim as their first…

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Andy Ng, GM of QQ Music Tencent.

Tencent QQ Music Executive Andy Ng to Keynote at All That Matters

The conferences in the day will see some of the most attractive keynote speakers ever invited to the event. Dubbed “TED Meets SXSW” by Jason Mraz, Music Matters has grown into a global platform representing the Asia-Pacific music industry and a gateway for up-and-coming artists looking to break into the region. Some of the most attractive keynote speakers attending All…

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Sound City Takeover at Zandari Festa to feature the best emerging artists from Britain

Sound City Goes To Zandari Fest

The festival will officially be hosting Sound City that consists of six British acts/artists delegates from the UK, including Atlas Wynd, Coquin Migale, I Set The Sea On Fire, She Drew The Gun, Sugarmen and Elle Exxe. They are set to perform at South Korea’s most popular indie festival from Sept 30 to October 3. Set to take place at Freedbird in…

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Scorpions, Alleycats, and Zainal Abidin headlining Rockaway Malaysia. Photo Courtesy of Rockaway.

Butterfingers Makes a Comeback at Rockaway

What felt like eternity was released in a moment after Livescape released one of the finest lineup the country has ever seen to date. There’s no holding back as the headliners picked for the weekend would probably going to make a one impressive show. It covers over 20 local and international acts including Scorpions, Wolfmother, Butterfingers, Wings, Third Eye Blind,…

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Believe Digital Receive $60 million of TCV Capital Investment

Believe Digital, an independent digital distributor and service provider for artists and labels worldwide, has announced its acquisition of the French indie label and publishing house – Naïve. According to Believe, its 25 staffers will be retained to continue with the building of its diverse catalogue including Classical (Jean-François Zygel, Laurence Equilbey and Accentus), Jazz (Baptiste Trotignon, Hadouk Trio), Music…

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Hardwell Guest Mix on Diplo and Friends

Diplo’s BBC Radio Show Features Hardwell

Hardwell who started out as a part of the Dutch movement Bubbling Beats returns to his roots with a mix that combines musical flavours like moombahton, r’n’b and UK grime. Tracks from Gyptian, Mr. Vegas, Popcaan and UK favourite Lethal Bizzle are all packaged into the hour long mix. Hardwell’s mix is set to broadcast this Sunday, 28 August at…

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Peking Duk to perform at Livescape It's The Ship

The Livescape Group to Host David Hasselhoff on It’s The Ship

Set to depart from the Marina Bay Cruise Centre in Singapore on November 4, this four-day and three-night floating music festival will be crossing international waters on the straits of Malacca to Penang, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site – an island located on the northern west coast of Malaysia known to be a food heaven and its growing art…

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nternational Music Summit [IMS] Shanghai 2016 reveals its first batch of speakers, including Skrillex, Alesso, pop star – Jolin Tsai, Pete Tong and many more.

Budweiser Sponsor STORM Festival, IMS Announce Alesso as Speaker

International Music Summit [IMS] is expanding its Asia-Pacific arm, collectively, unifying IMS Singapore and IMS China in a two-day conference in Shanghai. Its Shanghai organiser A2LiVE, has recently revealed its first batch of speakers for the electronic music conference set to take place September 29-30, 2016. After two successful years leading the electronic music industry conference with IMS Singapore and IMS…

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