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For the final Access All Areas of 2010 Trevor Reekie does a quick round up of local and international music industry momentum over the past 12 months. Audio

Back in the early 80s few people would have put money on Metallica going on from incredibly humble beginnings to become the 5th biggest selling band of all time. For Access All Areas the author of the… Read more Audio

Elektra Records was co-founded by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickhalt, who each put in $300 to start the label in October 1950. The now legendary label began by signing artists at the forefront of the… Read more Audio

For the final Access All Areas of 2010 Trevor Reekie does a quick round up of local and industry and musical momentum over the past 12 months. Audio

Award-winning American photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman has just published a photographic book called 'Music'. The book includes fifty eminent musicians from a variety of genres who were… Read more Audio

Michael Chugg - or 'Chuggie' as he's fondly known - has been promoting, managing, touring and championing rock acts in Australia since he was a fifteen. He is one of the foundation stone's of the… Read more Audio

English musician Alex Paterson is the co-founder of ambient group The Orb who gave birth to the genre of ambient house back in 1988. The Orb has just released a new collaboration called Metallic… Read more Audio

Peter Hook, along with Bernard Sumner, is the co-founder of the post-punk band Joy Division. It's been 30 years since the release of the now legendary Joy Division album 'Unknown Pleasures' and in… Read more Audio

Mick Farren's involvement in the sixties UK counter culture and psychedelic agitprop carved his career path. Now he has over 40 books to his credit and a discography that includes his work with the… Read more Audio

Despite having dedicated most of his 72 years to the appreciation of jazz and middle-eastern music whilst living in Iran, Dr Lloyd Miller is incredibly talented, yet still obscure. But that may be… Read more Audio

The Grateful Dead were 60s psychedelic renegades who mixed counter-cultural sentiment with unabashed marketing pitches. They built their brand by consistently touring, assembled a mailing list and… Read more Audio