Handshake MGMT P/L is a full service artist management company dedicated to creating lifetime careers. Leigh Treweek leans on his 25 years of music industry experience to create artist-driven pathways to success. Handshake represents acclaimed artists including internationally renowned singer-songwriter Alex Lahey. International, Platinum-selling DIY outfit Vacations. New Zealand indie rock outfit Bakers Eddy, Australian Sikh Hip Hop pioneer L-Fresh The Lion, and indie electro favorites PLGRMS, as well as emerging artists Ellis King and Mika James

The Association of Artist Managers (AAM) unites the Australian music industry's managers providing a peak body that develops, protects and promotes the reputation and interests of music managers, and their artists. With 280+ active managers as members, the AAM is the only peak body for managers of contemporary music. The AAM exists to:develop the skills and capacity of existing, and potential, music managersadvocate for members, their represented artists and the broader community of music managersbuild a connected community of music managersThe AAM believes in:Integrity as defined by the quality of being honestReciprocity as understood through the Indigenous language concept of Ngapartji Ngapartji - the mutual exchange of information and understandingGalvanism – the stimulation of action throughout the artist management community

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EMERGING FROM THE UNDERGROUND WORLD OFFANZINE PUBLISHING IN THE EARLY ‘80S, STREETPRESS FAST MERGED WITH THE COMMERCIALWORLD OF FLY POSTING TO BECOME THE ULTIMATEHANDS-ON GUIDE TO LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT.Booming in Australia, titles in Sydney and Melbourne paved the way for streetpress publishing, sparking international interest in the medium and local socalled‘street press wars’, as coined by the dailies, between competing titles.As the music scene diversifi ed in the ‘90s, so did street press, giving birth todance, gaming and fashion street papers, while the ‘00s ushered in polymediacollaborations with TV, radio and online forums. Now, as the circulation fi guresof newspapers and newsstand magazines decline, one publisher comes to theforefront of print media and continues to fl ourish and expand, having capturedthe hearts of generations of music and pop-culture enthusiasts– STREET PRESS AUSTRALIA (SPA).