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2 Apri 2012
JL Music Teams up with Cosi
JL Music is delighted to announce it has teamed up with Andrew 'Cosi' Costello for the next series of travel show South Aussie With Cosi.
JL Music will provide access to their catalogue exclusively for the next 8 episodes of the show which will sceen on Channel 9, Imparja and Southern Cross networks.
South Aussie with Cosi showcases great SA locations for practical, affordable family adventures.
Its going to be fantastic to watch Cosi in some of the states best locations, backed by some of the state best music.
13 March 2012
The Killgirls head to the UK for The Great Escape Festival
The Killgirls have been invited to perform at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton UK in May 2012, selected to play out of 80 acts that showcased at this year's Fuse Festival in Adelaide.
The Great Escape has been firmly established internationally as the leading event for showcasing new music and has launched the careers of artists like Crystal Castles, The Gossip, The Wombats, The XX and The Temper Trap.
Since the release of their second EP 'Animal' in late 2011, they've delivered their heavy hitting electro rock sound in Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, toured with Dead Letter Circus, played Parklife and will headline 'The End of the World' party at Barrio for The Adelaide Festivals' closing night.
The Killgirls are excited to make the most of UK touring hookups after The Great Escape to play Manchester, Berlin and Sound City Festival in Liverpool, with other cities yet to be announced.
Before heading overseas to showcase to some of the biggest names in the music industry, the band will play a special farewell show in Adelaide, May 4th at Rocket Bar. One not to miss!
For more information, photos, interviews etc…. Daisy Brown Managment email: thekillgirls@live.com.au phone +61 416 250 850
9 March 2012
Echo and The Empress nominated for award
Aussie Indie Pop Band, Echo and The Empress of South Australia join just four other artists from around the world in the nomination for best Pop Song Category in the 11th Annual Independent Music Awards. In total there are more than 300 exceptional self-released and independent label artists, as well as former major label acts named today by Music Resource Group (MRG) as Nominees in The 11th Independent Music Awards (The IMAs), the influential awards program for independent bands and fans.
Echo and the Empress is nominated for their song Balloon, among an eclectic mix of established and emerging artists.
Read more>More information on the Echo and the Empress nomination is available at: http:// www.independentmusicawards.com/imanominee/11th/Song/Pop
5 February 2012
SA Musicians Broadcast From Bus Stops
South Australian musicians will gain exposure in a very different way this month through an innovative marketing campaign launched by Adelaide-based People's Choice Credit Union. Two CBD bus stops and one Glenelg tram stop have been transformed to feature five separate headphone sockets providing different genres of music – rock, classical, R&B, country and pop and the best part is the artists are all SA-based. Read more>
13 September 2011
Coopers Country: Danny wins the double
South Australian singer songwriter, Danny Hooper, has won Coopers Country: The Australian Song Competition.
In a clean sweep, Coopers Animal Health is pleased to announce that Danny has won both the major prize of $15,000 for his song You're in good hands, and the People's Choice award of $5000 for Dreamland. Read more>
1 September 2011
Tracer release's debut album 'Spaces In Between' and announce 3rd European Tour
Tracer are excited to announce their third European Tour, as the main support for action-rock, Swedish band, Royal Republic.
Tracer's video clip for first single "Too Much"> is now online.
For Tracer management contact: Drew Landt drew@soundcontact.com.au Read more>
20 August 2011
Echo & The Empress team up with JL Music
JL Music Publishing is delighted to announce the addition of indie folk/pop act Echo & The Empress to their artist roster.
Forming in 2009, Echo & The Empress is the collaboration of sisters Beth & Skye blending stunning harmonies and vivacious melodies to create a unique blend of indie pop which is both beautiful and infectious.
Check out the new film clip for Balloon on youtube . Read more>
15 August 2011
JL MUSIC PUBLISHING SIGNS DEXTER JONES
Independent Music Publisher JL Music Publishing is delighted to announce the signing of Adelaide based pop/rock act Dexter Jones to their artist roster.
With a sound that faster louder describes as "like Franz Ferdinand would have sounded if they were big in the 70's", Dexter Jones music fuses indie rock guitars with the vocal harmonies of 60's and 70' britpop to create an array of catchy singalong anthems and foot stomping rock tunes. Read more>
21 July 2011
eMDee rocks the Montreal International Fireworks Festival
(Reproduced via http://montreal-fireworks.com/ReportBlog/?p=444)
..... The display began with a performance by eMDee to the accompaniment of very large flame effects, the largest I recall seeing at La Ronde produced purely by pyrotechnics. The synchronization between the music and the fireworks became quickly apparent and the audience soon became mesmerized by the pulsing rhythm of the drums and didgeridoo, the range of sounds produced by the latter being quite exceptional. Read more>
23 June 2011
THE LEVITATORS SIGN WITH JL MUSIC PUBLISHING
JL Music Publishing is delighted to announce the addition of dance/funk act The Levitators , to their artist roster. Formed in Adelaide in 2004 The Levitators have taken their unique brand of dance, funk and electro to the stages of the Big Day Out, Parklife and Peats Ridge Festivals. The Levitators have built a solid reputation as a live act, incorporating live drums and percussion, bass, stacks of keyboards, guitar, vocals and samples. Read more>
11 May 2011
THE TOUCH ROCK BRIGHTON AT THE GREAT ESCAPE
This Thursday, Adelaide's The Touch along with fourteen Australian bands will launch head on in to The Great Escape; one of the UK's and Europe's largest showcasing event for new and emerging artists. Taking place in Brighton from the 12th-14th May 2011, SOUNDS AUSTRALIA will be there, waving the flag and offering up opportunities outside of artist showcases. We're very pleased to be offering our home-grown talents the chance to network with highly renowned and respected music industry from around the world. Read more>
7 April 2011
THE KILLGIRLS ROCK AAMI STADIUM
Adelaide band The Killgirls are set to bring their electro-rock anthems to Adelaide's biggest football audience, when they perform at the entrance to the 50,000+ capacity AAMI Stadium before the massive Round 4 Showdown between the two home teams, when Port Adelaide take on the Adelaide Crows.
The Killgirls track 'Set Yourself on Fire' is Adelaide's official theme for the 2011 Toyota AFL Premiership Season, and the AFL and SANFL is delighted to invite the band to entertain the crowd before the big match. Read more>
20 March 2011
JL MUSIC PUBLISHING SIGNS BRILLIG
JL Music Publishing is delighted to announce that they have signed a long term deal with Australian gothic folk act Brillig. The new arrangement will see JL Music represent the band's latest album and back catalogue for licensing and syncronisation worldwide.
Combining sea shanties, murder ballads, tender tales of lost love & lost life, Brillig's inimitable style is enchantingly melancholic, beautifully tragic, and strangely uplifting. Signed to Germany's Black Rain indie label for European releases, whilst remaining independent in Australia, Brillig released their debut acoustic album "The Red Coats" across Europe, UK, Russia and North America in June 2009 and in Australia/NZ in 2010.
The Red Coats is available now from http://brillig.bigcartel.com/
20 January 2011
CASEY BARNES SIGNS WITH JL MUSIC PUBLISHING
JL Music Publishing is pleased to announce the signing of Gold Coast based singer songwriter Casey Barnes to their artist roster.
As a finalist on Australian Idol in 2009, Casey Barnes already had established himself as an artist to watch in Australia, supporting Bryan Adams, Eskimo Joe and Vanessa Amorosi amongst others. Since then Casey's music has reached audiences accross the globe, with the Marco Demark remix of his version of Elton Johns 'Tiny Dancer' reaching number 1 on the UK and European dance charts, extensive touring in the US and Europe and strong radio support for the two single releases 2010 EP Red Lion Motel.
Casey has had a great start to 2011, with most recent single "Never Break You" debuting at #6 on the ARIA charts and #1 on the AIR charts whilst being added to commercial radio accross the country.
The single "Never Break You" is out now through iTunes. Read more>
20 December 2010
THE TOUCH WIN APRA'S EMILY BURROWS AWARD
Adelaide's dance-punk outfit The Touch has taken out the 10th Anniversary Emily Burrows Award.
Members of the band Josh Moore, Shane Lock, Craig Lock, Justin Walkden and Chad Hooper accepted the awards at a presentation held last week.
The $4,000 Award is sponsored by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and is awarded each year to recognise and further the professional development of emerging original music artists or bands in South Australia.
9 November 2010
HUCKLEBERRY SWEDES SIGN WITH JL MUSIC
JL Music Publishing are delighted to announce the new addition of alt/roots act Huckleberry Swedes to the company's artist roster.
Huckleberry Swedes debut album "Suburban Dreaming", produced by Midnight Oil's Jim Moginie, is available through Vitamin Records. Read more>
22 October 2010
TRACER RETURNS HOME FROM EUROPEAN TOUR
Upon the completion of their most successful international tour, Adelaide hard rock outfit Tracer, have returned to Adelaide, in anticipation of their homecoming show. Having spent the last six weeks touring Europe, including a highly celebrated performance at the prestigious Popkomm Music Festival, Tracer are now home, ready to rock out at a free show at the Jetty Bar, Glenelg on the 30th of October.
Read more>30 September 2010
LAURA HILL TO ENTERTAIN GUESTS AT REGIONAL AWARDS EVENTS
South Australian singer-songwriter Laura Hill will entertain guests with her heartfelt, refreshing music at 2010 Advantage SA Regional Awards events.
; Read more>14 September 2010
TRACER SIGNS EUROPEAN RECORD DEAL
Adelaide hard rock act Tracer proudly announced today that it has signed a long term record deal with Dutch label Cool Green Recordings (a sub label of Mascot Records). Currently touring Europe and on the back of a highly successful performance at Germany's Popkomm Festival, the band was pleased to put pen to paper in RoHerdam last night.
"Needless to say the band is incredibly excited" says vocalist and guitarist Michael Brown, "it feels like the last six years of hard work, great and not so great gigs, smelly vans, endless hours of travel and our dwindling bank accounts have finally paid off" Read more>
27 August 2010
Free Download - New single by The Killgirls
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26 July 2010
Tracer off to Popkomm
Tracer is proud and excited to announce that they have been handpicked to perform at this year's prestigious Popkomm festival in Berlin, Germany in September. Popkomm is one of the biggest music industry events in the world and will allow Tracer the opportunity to showcase their own unique Australian style of dirty, sexy rock to the cream of the European and worldwide music community.
Read more>5 May 2010
Danny Hooper signs with JL Music
JL Music Publishing are delighted to announce the addition of enduring country artist Danny Hooper to the company’s artist roster. A five time ASA Award winning singer songwriter, Danny Hooper has pursued a career in music for more than 20 years.
Read more>1 April 2010
The Touch Win Nova FM's Im with the Band Competition
Adelaide band The Touch are officially Australia’s hottest emerging music act, beating tough competition to be crowned the official winner of Nova’s I Am With The Band competition today.
Beating a staggering 1,065 bands that entered the competition through Nova FM, The Touch were told this afternoon by Nova’s Ryan, Monty & Wippa that they had won $10,000 as well as national airplay on Nova stations to help them along their journey to stardom. Read more>
15 March 2010
Laura Hill signs publishing with JL Music
JL Music Publishing are delighted to announce the addition of Laura Hill to the company’s artist roster.
‘Odd Socks’, the debut single from the album is receiving airplay on the ABC, Triple J, Nova, PBS, and 3D radio. Laura will tour the east coast of Australia including major regional centers from April 2010 in support of the album release. Read more>
15 February 2010
Tracer signs with Sound Contact Management
Adelaide rockers Tracer have announced a formal partnership with Sound Contact Management effective immediately.
With their feet barely back on home soil form a successful European tour, the band will be managed by Drew Landt at Sound Contact who will be bringing his never ending wisdom and expertise to help progress the bands career. For three and a half months from late 2009 Tracer toured across Europe to promote their album LA? and performed more than 25 gigs to packed out audiences.
20 January 2010
The Killgirls to play Adelaide’s Premier Fringe and FUSE Events
2010 is starting strong for the The Killgirls securing spots at Adelaide’s biggest night of the year The Adelaide Fringe Opening Party (Fri 19th Feb) and Adelaide’s annual Music Industry event: FUSE Festival’s EXPLODE! showcase on the Wed 24th Feb . These gigs will see the band play alongside Art vs Science, KillerQueenz, The Hungry Kids of Hungary, Delta, The Swiss, Foxx on Fire and many more hyper quality bands in front of thousands of party goers and music industry types! Killer. The band looks forward to sharing their new work with seasoned fans and meeting anyone that’s yet to witness the show.Read more>
1 December 2009
JLMP partners with Shock Music Publishing
South Australian based JL Music Publishing signed a sub publishing and licensing deal with Shock Music Publishing. The deal will allow Shock Music Publishing to administer, publish and license the JL Music catalogue within Australia, and gives JL Music the ability to license the Shock Music Publishing Catalogue within South Australia. To facilitate the deal a new company has been created, JL Music Group Pty Ltd, with two business arms being Jl Music Publishing (representing the JL Music Catalogue) and JL Music Licensing (licensing the Shock Music Publishing Catalogue within SA).Read more>
25 September 2009
Applications Open for Carclew's Off the Couch 2010
Applications are open for South Australian bands, musicians and aspiring event managers aged 12-26 to take part in Off The Couch 2010, presented by Carclew Youth Arts. Read more>
23 September 2009
Calling for SA composers to reDiscover, reVive and reMaster classics of silent cinema
The Media Resource Centre (MRC) presents the return of the Silent reMasters initiative, a contemporary tribute to the art of silent film accompaniment and a highlight of the Adelaide Cinémathèque 2009 screen program at the Mercury Cinema. Read more>
12 September 2009
JLMP NORTHERN TERRITORY SIGNINGS
eMDee have been wowing festival goers across the globe with their unique high energy live performances featuring one of Australias' finest didjeridu performers Mark Hoffmann combined with percussive world beats by Lukas & special guest vocals from Shayote.... Read more>
Shayote Original, Poetic Folk/Roots with a message for those who wish to listen, Shayote is a singer/songriter of thirteen years based in Humpty Doo in the Northern Territory Shayote has supported various acts across the nation including; Blue King Brown, Loren and CARRA Read more>
14 August 2009
JLMP SIGN THE KILL GIRLS AND NEON ELECTRIC
The Killgirls are a 5 piece dance/rock band from Adelaide, SA consisting of Tony Irish (drums/percussion), Adam Hood (synthesizers), Nick O'Connor (bass/backing vocals), Rusty Hutchinson (guitars/backing vocals) and Mario Spate (vocals/synthesizers).
Neon Electric is a two-piece electro-pop band from Adelaide, SA consisting of Tony Irish (drums) and Mario Spate (vocals/synthesiser). Read more>
8 August 2009
THE NATIONAL MUSICOZ AWARDS NOW OPEN FOR ENTRIES
Australia's largest independent music awards program, The National Musicoz Awards, is now open for entries.Read more >
27 June 2009
MUSIC IN FILM SEMINAR WITH JLMP, SAFC AND AMPAL
Filmmakers are invited to a free industry panel that focuses on the use of Music in Film. Read more >
24 June 2009
NEW JL MUSIC PUBLISHING WEBSITE LAUNCHED
The new JL Music Publishing has been launched, although the site is still under construction, so please check back again soon to experience the full working site. Read more >
18 June 2009
NEW ARTISTS ON JLP
JL Music Publishing are excited to announce two new artist signings, with rock band Tracer and Indie Pop darlings, The Touch coming on board. Read more >
30 March 2009
THE SECRET GAME AND SONIC MONKEY SIGN WORLDWIDE PUBLISHING DEAL WITH JL MUSIC PUBLISHING
JL Music Publishing are delighted to announce two new artist signings, with synth/rock act The Secret Game and Club Electronica outfit Sonic Monkey joining the JL Music artist family in March. Read more >
26 March 2009
OFFSIDE” PREMIERES TO BIGGEST MERCURY CINEMA SCREENING IN 35 YEARS
Football is life... especially if you don't have one. Life's about winning, but this team's about pursuing excellence. Read more >
ABOUT US
JL Music Publishing is South Australia’s leading independent Music Publisher and Licensing company. We have a boutique catalogue of award winning Australian songs and songwriters.
Services include:
- Music Publishing
- Music Licensing for advertising, film, television,video/DVD, gaming, premium CD's projects, and other media (includes licensing from the extensive Perfect Pitch Publishing catalogue in South Australia)
- Production Music via Film and TV Music Library (Hollywood)
- Music Supervision
- Music Clearances and Research
- Jingle creation and production
- Customised Music Creation
- Consultancy services.
Please feel free to contact us if you are looking for ideas for projects . We welcome requests for song pitches based on the requirements of your project. Alternatively if you have a specific request in mind you can send us your enquiry or licence request details.
If you are a songwriter with questions about publishing feel free to send us an email and a link to your music online. Please don't send large files.
