Dean McLachlan Announces Retirement From Mushroom Group

MELBOURNE, Australia — After 30 years with Mushroom Group , and upwards of four decades in the Australian music industry, Dean McLachlan is calling it a day. The label veteran joined Mushroom Group in 1997 as promotions manager, initially working on Kylie Minogue’s Impossible Princess and Hunters & Collectors’ Juggernaut. Related New Levels Strike Global Partnership With Virgin Music Group, Signs Hooligan Hefs & More Lars Brandle Then, he served in various roles with Mushroom Music Publishing, Mushroom Pictures and Liberation Music, and in 2017 became general manager of Bloodlines, the label co-founded by the late Michael Gudinski and Warren Costello and now part of Mushroom Music.

He was promoted to managing director of Bloodlines in 2021. With the creation of Mushroom Music in July 2024 , McLachlan was appointed senior director, iconic artists and catalogue, working across the business’s recording and publishing divisions, with a remit to continue steering the songwriting and releases of Mushroom’s artists, writers and prestigious catalogues. Mushroom Music was described at the time of formation as a “powerhouse operation” which gathered the roster of artists and writers from across the music specialist’s recording, publishing and neighbouring rights activities, from Vance Joy to Kylie Minogue, The Teskey Brothers, Jimmy Barnes, Childish Gambino, Kehlani, Julia Jacklin and many others.