George Mackay on forming a punk band with Earl Cave: “We’ve got a fuck you attitude”

Music executive Andrew Jackson has partnered with Sony Music Entertainment Australia to launch Avoca Drive, a joint venture label with A&R executives in both Los Angeles and Sydney, Australia. Avoca Drive's first signing is Tanisha Tishawiana Sadewo and Osvaldo Rio Nugroho Aritonang's new project Galdive, whose first single ‘Nescience’ drops Friday (July 17).

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and his wife Rita Wilson while filming for a new movie in Gold Coast, Australia, in March.Speaking in a recent interview about ways to stop the spread of with Reuters, Hanks said: "At the very least, three tiny things (are) in everybody's wheelhouse, if you choose to do them."Wear a mask, wash your hands, social distance.

Bindi Irwin shared a sweet glimpse into her life with her husband Chandler Powell. Irwin, the 21-year-old daugher of the late Steve Irwin, posted a picture of her and Powell, 23, taking a selfie with their dog Piggy.

During a virtual press conference on Tuesday, Tom Hanks called on more people to wear masks and practice social distancing during the ongoing pandemic.Hanks joins a growing list of celebrities advocating for wearing a mask as parts of the country have reopened despite record high COVID-19 cases. All Tom Hanks wants is for you to wear a mask.

“We expect this sale will help stimulate demand even more and encourage Australians to go on holidays and visit family and friends while also helping get more of our people back working again.” Fares are available throughout August, September and October. The sale is being launched to rival Virgin’s sale last Thursday and the recent Jetstar “Friday Frenzy” sales which offered a range of $19 flights around the country.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorFunimation, a leading provider of anime content, plans to expand its streaming service to Brazil and Mexico this fall, offering select subtitled and dubbed anime series in Spanish and Portuguese.The company, an independent joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Japan’s Aniplex, already operates globally, with nine offices in six countries.

Nick Cave, like the rest of us, is stuck in lockdown and waiting for the (coronavirus) cloud to lift.

Australian auteur George Miller is getting into business with Beijing-based real estate giant Sunac China. The Chinese property developer has closed a deal to co-finance Miller's forthcoming "epic love story" Three Thousand Years of Longing, co-staring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorSunac Culture has pre-bought Chinese distribution rights to George Miller’s anticipated fantasy-romance Three Thousand Years Of Longing.Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton are due to star in the feature, which was meant to start production in March but was pushed back by the pandemic.

Tom Grater, Jill Goldsmith Yesterday’s news that the European Union will not lift travel restrictions on the U.S. due to the scale of the country’s ongoing coronavirus outbreak prompted concerns about the re-start of American film and TV production based in Europe.As of today (July 1), travelers from 15 countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan and China can cross borders into the EU, but the U.S.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Netflix has appointed Bozoma “Boz” Saint John to be its new Chief Marketing Officer. She leaves Endeavor, where she has served as CMO since 2018.

It took something special to keep Bob Dylan’s comeback album from the crest of Australia’s albums chart. Music From The Home Front (Bloodlines/Universal) is something special.

shelves stripped of toilet paper by shoppers, scared of a second shortage, Sydney is now dealing with people plundering toot paper stocks. As previously reported on LifeStyle, Coles' restrictions on essential items began in the state of Victoria, but now they have been applied to stores in Lavington, Albury and Deniliquin in NSW.

Just a couple of weeks after giving birth to a baby boy, rapper Iggy Azalea has debuted a new look. The 30-year-old Australian musician took to Instagram on June 24 to share a Polaroid-style snap of her new pink ‘do. The “Fancy” hitmaker used the old-school pic to show off the pink highlights she added to her trademark blonde locks.Iggy pulled her hair back into two mini buns, but left two large strands of hair out to hang around the frame of her face.

was resubmitted, and not accepted.In recent days and weeks, industry figures were quietly fearing the worst, that those talks would come to nothing.With today’s announcement, the worst-case scenario has been buried.As the music and arts industries digest the details of the JobMaker package, figures from the creatives sector welcomed the development.The package, explains APRA AMCOS CEO Dean Ormston, “will provide a necessary and critical lifeline to many music businesses and organizations to