Van Halen have officially signed with Interscope Records and this week had the official photo taken.

South by Southwest has announced a new batch of artists from around the world, including Australia’s own Lanie Lane and Oh Mercy.

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.

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

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

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

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).

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.

Forget Nashville as the Country Music Capital of America. New York has taken the honor. According to Nielsen SoundScan most country albums sold in the United States are sold in New York.

Florence + The Machine’s second album debuts at number one on this week’s ARIA chart wrap.

The Lennon & McCartney of Australian music festivals Vivian Lees and Ken West have split.

Joy of joys, Coldplay’s new album knocks Adele off the top in this week’s ARIA Chart wrap.

Legendary DJ Jim Ladd, the subject of Tom Petty’s ‘The Last DJ’, has been dumped by Los Angeles radio station KLOS.

Coldplay will easily have the number one album in America next week with ‘Xylo Myloto’.

Casting Crown, a band of Baptist Ministers, have knocked Adele from the number one spot on the US album chart this week.

The Face The Music conference in Melbourne next month will feature musicians offering first hand advice for industry newbies.

Adele’s reign goes on, but the top twenty got a shake up on this week’s ARIA chart.

Michael Gudinski, Mushroom Records founder and now Chairman of the Mushroom Group of Companies, has joined the board of MCM Entertainment Group Limited (MEG).

From October 31, The 7PM Project will be known as The Project and move to 6.30pm on Network Ten. Oh, and yeah, George Negus’s ‘6.30’ has been axed.

Adele holds off strong showings from Chris Isaak and Evanescence on this week’s chart wrap.

Sydney quartet The Jezabels scored two awards at the Jagermeister Independent Music Awards last night.

Icehouse will perform in a small, intimate environment for the Entertainment Assist gala variety dinner fund-raiser ‘Gotta Have Heart’ on October 28.

Gotye, Boy & Bear and Drapht have picked up seven nominations each for the 2011 ARIA Awards.

Village Sounds and The Atlas Agency, two of Australia’s biggest music agencies, have merged. The combined company will be known as Village Sounds.

Neither rapper 360, country superstar Lee Kernaghan, nor John Farnham can knock Adele off the top of this week’s chart.

Sony has shut down three of its biggest labels Arista, Jive and J Records and moved the artists to the RCA Records label.

Samsung will launch Music Hub, the latest subscription music service to hit Australia, on October 17 on the Samsung Galaxy S II.