Ed Sheeran holds for a second week at No.1 on the ARIA Singles chart this week with “Thinking Out Loud”, fending off X-Factor winner Marlisa with her debut single, which lands at No.2 this week.

Wagons and Frankie J Holden with Wilbur Wilde have joined the Port Fairy Folk Festival line-up for 2015.

Foo Fighters have released the second song from the Sonic Highways project 'The Feast and the Famine'.

Singer songwriter Steve Smyth has been forced to postpone all of his Australia dates after thugs left him with a broken jaw on Sydney on Tuesday.

Alvin Stardust was the owner of a guitar insured for $AUD2.74 million (£UK1.5 million).

Bob Seger has included a cover of Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson’s ‘Adam & Eve’ on his new album ‘Ride Out’.

Struggling Sydney Austereo station 2DAYFM has lost another breakfast show host with former Bardot pop star leaving the ailing station not long after former Spice Girl Mel B walked out the door.

Macy Gray will return to Australia for dates in March 2015.

Clark McEntire, father of country music Hall of Fame member Reba McEntire, died on Thursday in Coalgate, OK at the age of 86. Clark had been a in a nursing home.

Slipknot is going to ruin Neil Diamond's chance at scoring only the second number 1 of his career.

When Tim Hauser passed away last week, the remaining members of the Manhattan Transfer vowed to go on as it is what Hauser would have wished.

The COPD Foundation will present "A Tribute to Phil Everly" on Wednesday, October 29 at the home of Syliva Roberts in Nashville, TN. Performing an acoustic set will be 12-time Grammy winner Paul Simon.

Dame Shirley Bassey has recorded a cover of 'Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend' with Palona Faith for her new album 'Hello Like Before'.

Pink Floyd's new album, The Endless River, has today become the most pre-ordered artist album of 2014 on Amazon.

U2 has used an interview with Rolling Stone to apologise, once again, for the Songs of Innocence / iTunes debacle and to detail what is coming in the next couple of years.

Glen Campbell's touching final recording, I'm Not Going to Miss You, has struck a chord with fans, sending the singer into the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in 33 years.

Clive Davis thinks the music industry has suffered tremendously since Whitney Houston's death.

Bret Michaels is a victim of internet fraud but he isn't the actual money-losing victim. He just appears to be the perpetrator.

Bob Seger have set a new career record with a number 3 debut for his new album, Ride Out.

iHeartRadio Music News, powered by Noise11.com this week serves up the controversial new Foo Fighters song 'Something From Nothing' next to the song it is accused of ripping off Dio's 'Holy Diver'.

MOFO will return Hobart in January with Amanda Palmer returning to the event as well as Paul Kelly with a line-up once again curated by Brian Ritchie.

Dan Sultan, British India, Husky and Lanie Lane will perform a free show at Melbourne’s new Margaret Court Arena on Melbourne Cup Eve (November 3).

Bob Seger's new album, Ride Out, has sold around 56,000 albums during it's opening week, good enough to put it at number 3 for the week.

Aretha Franklin's new album as well as The Flaming Lips take on Sgt Pepper leads the new music releases this week.

Wilko Johnson reports he has mastered his battle with cancer.

AC/DC 'Rock Or Bust' could sell over 300,000 copies in its first week making it one of the fastest sellers of the year despite a forecast half of the last album first week sales.

Aretha Franklin thinks it's "ridiculous" she hasn't collaborated with Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson.

Metallica will be releasing a ten-year anniversary 2-disc Blu-Ray and DVD of their out of print, groundbreaking movie, METALLICA: Some Kind of Monster on November 24, 2104.

Culture Club revisited the scene of their inaugural London gig in 1982 last night for their first reunion in twelve years. Heaven nightclub was London’s hottest ticket and Music-News.com were ecstatic to be there.

James Brown fans have a reason to rejoice. Universal has released seventeen rare Brown albums digitally on all of the major retailers and streaming sites.