Mac Miller has the number one album in America this week with ‘Blue Slide Park’.

Canadian ethereal pop group Austra, Pitchfork faves Girls and South London producer SBTRKT announce sideshows.

Grouplove hit Letterman, 50 Cent hints about his next album, Bon Jovi post up big tour snaps, Sia studio schmoozes with stars, and heaps more.

The word on the street is that Google will launch its long-talked about music store this Wednesday putting the first serious rival to Apple’s iTunes in play.

One of Melbourne’s most loved venues The Hi-Fi Bar is going to open up a venue in Sydney.

Nelly is the man behind the Ex’treme Institute, the new audio engineering school based in St Louis.

iTunes has released iTunes Match, a cloud based device to store the content in your iTunes.

Tracking has been completed for the third Children Collide album.

In Brazil, Courtney Love whips her top off, then storms offstage, then returns to slag Dave Grohl.

Amanda Palmer’s punk cabaret outfit The Dresden Dolls announce their first shows in Australia since 2006.

Irish heartbreaker Ronan Keating announces a 2012 tour with Sharon Corr of The Coors.

Austin blues drummer Doyle Bramhall died suddenly on Sunday at the age of 62.

General Pant’s music label Major Label has merged the bubble artist mentoring program and signed a new act, The Khanz.

Gunners tweet onstage pics, Portishead, The Flaming Lips and PVT talk Harvest, NKOTB book NYC NYE gig, Willow Smith gets hacked, and heaps more.

CONTEST HAS FINISHED FOOTPRINTS – The Best Of Powderfinger 2001-2011 brings together 18 musical moments to serve as a permanent reminder of what made Powderfinger one the greatest and most popular Australian bands of all time. 

CONTEST HAS FINISHED 'Company' is album number three for Bluejuice and you can win it this week at Noise11.com.

CONTEST HAS FINISHED From start to finish, there was always music playing in the background during production of RED DOG.

Japanese masters of rock weirdness, Boris, book a run of dates in Australia for March next year.

The Rolling Stones are playing down the possibility of any 50th anniversary shows next year.

Susan Boyle’s third album Someone To Watch Over Me shuffles the top ten down in this week’s chart wrap.

The inaugural Harvest Festival kicked off yesterday in Melbourne with a slew of spectacular performances.

The Doors ‘L.A. Woman’ is getting a 40th anniversary make-over by Rhino Records. A new 2CD version of the classic album by The Doors will be released on November 25.

Pegi Young will release her third album ‘Bracing For Impact’ later this month.

The iconic Abbey Road studios in London turned 80 this weekend.

Simply Red star Mick Hucknall was surprised to find out he had died this week so he tweeted about it.

Ashton Kutcher has “resigned” as a Twitter tweeter after posting support for a child molester.

Rapper Heavy D will be laid to rest back home in New York after passing away on Tuesday at the age of 44.

Universal Music Group (UMG) has signed an agreement to buy EMI’s recorded music division for £1.2 billion. ($AUD1.8 billion, $US1.9 billion).

METALLICA have today announced that they will headline the 10th Download Festival at Donington Park on Saturday 9 June 2012, with an exclusive UK performance oftheir best selling, No. 1 album Metallica, more commonly known simply as 'The Black Album'.

As long as they have existed, Van Halen has recorded for Warner Brothers records, but that is about to change. There are strong rumors that sometime next week, the band will become part of the Interscope family which is part of the Universal Music Group.