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Ivy League is delighted to announce the inclusion of Youth Group to SXSW 2009 next March. Being handpicked from over 10,000 applicants world wide, Youth Group will be joining a roster roughly 1,800 deep that will be hosting some of the biggest names in music, alongside some of the freshest upcoming talent around the globe today.

This tremendous news comes hand in hand with the band recently signing a deal with the uber cool World’s Fair Label Group (Jarvis Cocker, Dandy Warhols, Devendra Banhart, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings among others).

After SXSW the band will be making their way up to New York to play even more shows!!

It’s been quite a ride for Youth Group this year. Not only have the band released one of the most critically acclaimed albums of 2008, they literally haven’t sat still.

Touring alongside Interpol, playing a round of select intimate shows, making videos, heading out on a massive national tour with friends theredsunband, and now the band prepare to conquer the Big Day Out Nationally.

This will be one of the last times to see Youth Group before they head over to foreign soil.

Youth Group’s new single ‘In My Dreams’ is currently making it’s way to national radio.

The final list of 2008 national radio station Triple J's J Award Nominees for Australian Album of the Year include 8 of the 12 artists being Mushroom Music songwriters! These include:

The Drones – Havilah
Sparkadia – Postcards
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Primary Colours
TZU – Computer Love [pictured]
Birds of Tokyo – Universes
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
Cog – Sharing Space

The J Awards will be announced on triple j live from Oxford Art Factory Sydney on Friday, 5 December (from 5pm) - wish us luck!

Mushroom Music has just signed emerging indigenous artist Dan Sultan and co-writer Scott Wilson. Coined as “the Black Elvis”, this smooth hip shaker plays soul, R’n’B and horn-addled disheveled blues; with a big set of lungs and a whole lotta soul. Since releasing independent album Homemade Biscuits in 2006, Sultan has extensively worked the festival circuit, toured with John Butler Trio and The Waifs, played in Ireland and the UK and was a unforgettable contribution to Kev Carmody’s Cannot Buy My Soul stage show. Sultan is soon playing Meredith Music festival and is also due to have a role in forthcoming Australian feature film Bran Nu Dae. Mushroom looks forward to spreading the word about this amazing talent far and wide.

A mightily impressive roll call of rockers will join Neil Finn for an as-yet-untitled studio project, Billboard reports. Many of the guests will also join the Crowded House genius for a series of live shows. Neil's quite famous son Liam will be there in the studio with his dad, along with Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway; Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, John Stirrat, Glenn Kotche and Pat Sansone; Smiths' legend Johnny Marr; Soul Sebastian Steinberg, plus the great Lisa Germano.

Except for the boys from Wilco, those aforementioned artists all collaborated with Neil on the 2002 live set, Seven Worlds Collide. And just to make this delicious project even better, all proceeds from the new musical adventure will go to a good cause - Oxfam.

Snow Patrol are no strangers to Australian audiences after selling out multiple tours and headlining arenas across the country. And when Snow Patrol return to Australia this month in support of their latest release A Hundred Million Suns (out now through Universal), they have confirmed that they will perform a one off intimate show. The Frontier Touring Company are pleased to announce this exclusive show will take place at the Metro Theatre on Wednesday 19 November during their stay.

A Hundred Million Suns sees Snow Patrol exceed all expectations as they release their most accomplished record to date. Debuting at #6 on the ARIA chart, and already certified Gold, Australians have proven their love for Snow Patrol has not waned.

With previous tours in much larger venues selling out, this performance offers fans the rare opportunity to get up close and personal with Snow Patrol as they showcase their new material.

Tickets will be available only via the Metro Theatre (via phone, web and box office) from 9am Tuesday 18 November. It’s not often the opportunity to see a band as revered as Snow Patrol in an intimate setting arises, so ensure you don’t miss out.

Keen on purchasing tickets? You’ll need to follow this procedure:

1. You must have a credit card to book by phone or online. Tickets available through the Metro Box Office, Metro website and Metro call centre
2. There is a limit of two tickets per credit card holder – the system rejects any double bookings with the same name, e-mail address or physical address
3. No hard tickets will be issued at time of purchase – you will receive a confirmation number at time of booking
4. Wristbands will be available for collection at the venue from 12pm (midday) ON THE DAY of the event (to ensure everyone is in on time)
5. Photo ID, the credit card used to purchase tickets and the confirmation number are required to collect wristbands
6. The credit card holder and the additional person they bought for must arrive together. Both patrons will be wrist banded on the spot.
7. This is an 18+ event. As such, both patrons are required to produce photo ID before being issued with a wristband.
8. Anyone with wristbands seen to be tampered with will be refused entry.
9. Tickets are not exchangeable or transferable. The purchaser is required to attend.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, fronted by the queen banshee herself, Karen O are almost done and dusted with their new album. Although the details are scarce, what we do know is the follow up to last years Is Is EP won’t reach our ears until next year sometime and it’s going to be an absolute ripper of a record, that sounds very much like the YYYs but nothing like what we’ve heard before. Here’s what they had to say:

There is no beating the bit of news sweeping the nation at the moment but YYYs have a bit of news of our own to share. NEW RECORD? NEW RECORD!! NEW RECORD IS GETTING CLOSER TO BEING DONE DONE DONE! You still won’t be hearing it until 2009 but damn are we close to finishing it and only after a year of writing and recording! Will it sound kind of like Show Your Bones? No, been there done that. What about IS IS? Is that more of the direction it’s going in? Absolutely not, it sounds VERY different from last year’s EP. Did we go back to our roots and write something closer to Fever to Tell? No looking back now silly, just full speed ahead. WHAT DOES IT SOUND LIKE?? Not much like anything you’ve heard from us before- DOES IT SOUND LIKE THE YEAH YEAH YEAHS??? YOU BET YOU’RE SWEET ASS IT DOES. Phew, can’t wait. We can hardly wait ourselves, we miss all of you and we’ve been working extra hard on this one with the intention to make you as happy as possible. Just wanted to drop a line to let you in on how quickly we’re approaching the finishing line and to GET PSYYYYYYYYYYYYCHED.

Welcome to the new Mushroom Music website, one that’s a little easier to navigate and has a fresh new look.

You might notice a few changes that we’ve made around here. We’ve broken down each of our departments (local, international and licensing) into finer detail to give you a better idea of how we work and what we achieve. The licensing section in particular reveals how active we’ve been in the TV/film/advertising world recently, streaming some successful examples.

Also, when a Songwriter releases a new album, their individual page will have a signature tune to stream for your enjoyment.

Make yourself comfortable while you take a look a round.