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Nathan Cavaleri knows more than most about the enormous highs and the despairing lows of a life in showbiz.A cancer survivor, Cavaleri experienced the rollercoaster ride of fame from a young age, a child prodigy with a national — no, international — profile, and the challenges that come with growing up in the public eye.As a youngster, the guitar hero performed for presidents (Bill Clinton) and movie stars (Tom Cruise), with rock stars (Mark Knopfler, BB King), did the rounds of U.S. talk shows, and appeared on Baywatch, then the most-popular TV show on the planet.After the highs, the lows.Cavaleri battled with severe fatigue that spiraled into depression and triggered his return to Australia, where he took time out from music.Refreshed, and back on form, Cavaleri was the subject of an Australian Story profile, which aired last year on the ABC.With his comeback in full swing, Cavaleri released a new album, Demons, in 2020, and scored a spot on the Bluesfest bill. Never miss industry news Get the latest music industry news, insights, and updates straight to your inbox. Learn more But due to the pandemic and the lockdowns that come with it, festivals and full-scale touring will have to…

AEW Games held a panel over All Out weekend with the announcement of an official Twitch stream, content updates for Elite GM and more, and the video is online. The video was released as the latest episode of 2.Show, and you can see the video plus a recap below. * The video starts with Allie and Aubrey Edwards discussing updates for AEW Elite General Manager, their mobile game. Edwards announced that there is a content update that is shooting for the week of September 14th, which will feature a lot of features they wanted in the game on release but couldn’t do for time reasons. The update will include a news and event system for updates from within the game itself, wrestler skins on the way, new storyline missions and challenges, new avatars and finishes, a game compendium, and segment animations. The content update will also feature 13 new wrestlers including Andrade El Idolo, Malakai Black, Brian Pillman Jr., Thunder Rosa, Shawn Dean, Anthony Ogoo, Ryan Nemeth, Cezar Bonani, JD Drake, Wheeler Yuta, Julia Hart, Negative One, and CM Punk. Edwards noted that Negative One doesn’t even know that he’s in the game and has stats similar to Brodie Lee’s,…

Iconic Melbourne venue Section 8, along with prominent  music collectives Crown Ruler and The Operatives have teamed up for SECTION AID, an initiative supporting Melbourne musicians and hospitality workers.  Together, Section 8, Crown Ruler and the Operatives have spent almost two decades uniting a diverse cohort of  artists, musicians and performers across Melbourne’s independent music community. The goal of the initiative is to provide urgent, practical support to local musicians, hospitality workers and artists affected by the current COVID-19 crisis. What you need to know SECTION AID has a jamming lineup this Saturday September 11 The Melbourne venue and music collectives are giving awesome support to music and hospo workers The digital festival will be held on Twitch from 12pm to 12am Stay up to date with what’s happening in Melbourne here. With tours cancelled, bars closed and many expat workers ineligible for current government support, the future looks uncertain for musicians and hospitality workers keeping the heart of our city alive long after the lights go off. Over twelve hours next Saturday the 11th of September, SECTION AID will be hosting a live Twitch steam on their website, from midday through ’til midnight. The Operatives, Crown Ruler + Section 8 have…

As Twitch becomes increasingly popular, so too do the streamers who broadcast themselves. Online personalities like Amouranth, HasanAbi, and Ludwig continue to garner attention and coverage from mainstream media - a feat that would have been unheard of a decade ago. A lot of the coverage of Twitch has been negative, however, and Internet fame has in many cases proven to be harmful for both creators and fans. A prime example of this is regarding Twitch streamer CallMeCarson, whose grooming controversy has been the subject of ongoing discussion. Carson King, better known as CallMeCarson, is a 22-year-old content creator from Indiana. He joined YouTube and began making videos as early as 2011 before creating his main account on May 10, 2012. At its peak, his YouTube channel had over three million subscribers, but he's more recently gained widespread attention after allegations of grooming underage fans were levied against him. Now, as Carson returns to streaming and makes plans for the upcoming year, many have begun to reexamine the controversy that surrounds him. What Made CallMeCarson Popular CallMeCarson's popularity exploded around the end of 2019. It was then that an image of Carson crying (taken from a Minecraft stream in June)…

Twitch streamer Amouranth has become extremely popular through her IRL content. In a recent stream, she was addressing all the vulgar things she’s been called throughout her life and used this as a perfect opportunity to hit back at the trolls that never call her broke. Kaitlyn ‘Amouranth’ Siragusa has grown her fanbase on multiple social media platforms. From Instagram, Twitter, Twitch, all the way to OnlyFans, she is one of the most successful personalities. While some people may look at her content as controversial, Amouranth has a very supportive community through all the hate. Regardless of internet trolls continuing to diminish her work, she just continues to stream, secure the bag, and let everyone about it. Twitter: AmouranthAmouranth has become vastly popular through her IRL streams. Amouranth flexes wealth to all her haters  The internet personality has never strayed far from the boundaries of the internet. From ASMR to hot tub streams, Amouranth has been pushing the limits of Twitch, growing to over 4.2 million followers on the platform. Read More: Twitch streamer Jinny falls for oldest scam in the book despite chat warnings However, with all this fame comes its perks. While most people enjoy her content there…

Michael ‘shroud’ Grzesiek might be a streaming superstar, but the FPS legend got his start as a Counter-Strike pro. Now, the Twitch powerhouse has revealed how one game in particular helped convince him to switch careers: PUBG. Michael ‘shroud’ Grzesiek’s impressive FPS resume goes way, way back — and includes an almost four-year stint as a professional CS:GO player on talented rosters like Manajuma, compLexity, and later Cloud9. Some newer fans might only know him as a top streamer on Twitch, but his deep Counter-Strike roots played a huge part in his rise to FPS fame (even if he doesn’t feel the game is worth his time anymore). Now, the Twitch star has opened up about his exit from the professional CS scene, and even revealed how one title in particular pulled him away from Counter-Strike so much that it helped convince him to quit altogether: PUBG. DreamHackShroud’s impressive FPS roots run all the way back to his time in Counter-Strike. While streaming on Twitch, Grzesiek ended up on the topic of PUBG, and how he used to be “hooked” on it. As the conversation went on, he shared with fans just how much the battle royale phenomenon contributed to…

Content creator and professional Fortnite player Daequan Loco has his first livestream on Twitch after a nearly two-year absence. In 2019, Daequan Loco was a member of the professional US esports organization Team SoloMid, known as TSM. He was also an extremely popular Twitch and YouTube content creator with millions of followers, regularly playing Fortnite and seeming at the top of his game. Then in January 2020, Daequan announced that he would be taking a break in order to focus on his health. Daequan had spoken in the past about how an undiagnosed physical illness was affecting his life and had led to depression. He had taken brief breaks throughout 2019 because of this, and fans wished him the best and expected the content creator to make a quick return as usual. Daequan sporadically posted updates on Twitter throughout the year, livestreamed on Twitch once in March 2020, and promised to return to regular streaming soon. In November 2020, Daequan tweeted that he felt better than he had in years and then went almost entirely radio silent. After a well-executed hype train beginning in late August, Daequan made his return to Twitch on September 4 at 4 PM PST. The…

Chess is booming. A heady cocktail of Queen’s Gambit mania, pandemic boredom, and Twitch streaming has given the ancient board game more visibility than it’s had in a long, long time. It’s been half a century, in fact, since the game last captured global attention so fiercely.Back in 1972, the USA’s Bobby Fischer and the USSR’s Boris Spassky engaged in a televised battle for the world championship title. The match was treated as a form of Cold War one-upmanship in miniature.There is a different kind of tussle going on in chess today: not between nations this time, but between an old guard and a new school. Some seasoned players, perceiving a mass of casual fans riding the new chess wave, worry that the game will get dumbed down for the sake of profit. Newcomers, happily ignorant of the discipline chess demands, are lapping up the fruits of their brave new world.On the many online chess portals available, they are playing classical chess alongside brand new, blasphemously untraditional formats like “King of the Hill” and “Crazyhouse”. Chess is all a bit jolly for the newcomers, in a way that the old school is liable to find flippant. Not that they don’t…

Twitch streamer and Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master Jeremy “Arcadum” Black has released a statement responding to grooming, manipulating, and other allegations levied against him earlier this week. In the statement, Black apologized to the women negatively affected by his actions, although he claimed to have never entered into a relationship with the women for sexual reasons. “I never sought out relationships purely for sexual purposes,” Black said. “To be absolutely clear, I have never engaged in nonconsensual activity. These were relationships that developed as genuine friendships. I greatly valued these friendships and still do, yet I have been unfair to many of them, and I am sorry for the hurt I have caused them.” As part of the allegations, one woman who came forward said they were removed from their position within Black’s community after Tiffany, Black’s wife, found intimate messages between her and Black. A similar sentiment was echoed in other statements from alleged victims who claim that Black had edited or deleted messages exchanged with them to save face. “Last week, Tiffany became aware of these relationships and my communications with people that crossed boundaries within our marriage,” Black wrote. “Understandably, she was heartbroken, and I tried…

Home News (Image credit: Streamlabs) Streamlabs, one of the most popular resources for livestreaming tools, software, and informational support, is releasing a new "Safe Mode" feature to compliment its Cloudbot tool. The new feature is a direct response to increasing reports of "hate raids" on Twitch, where streamers (generally members of marginalized communities) are subjected to ceaseless floods of racially or sexually discriminatory language from numerous user accounts.Safe Mode is a toggle in Streamlabs' dashboard that lets users clear all recent events from their chat, clear currently queued follower/host/raid, and disable follower alerts.If users have Streamlabs' Cloudbot feature enabled, Safe Mode will also put chat in emote-only mode, follower-only mode, and sub-only mode, disable chat alerts for followers, and clear chat history.According to a Streamlabs employee, streamers can also give their mods and admins access to Safe Mode features through the Streamlabs site. Additional access methods are on the way."Streamlabs believes in fostering a supportive environment to ensure a positive experience for our streamers and their viewers," Streamlabs said. "You and your community should feel safe to express yourselves without fear of being harassed."Hate raids on Twitch became such a prevalent issue for many streamers that parts of the community…