Album sales in the USA for 2011 increased for the first time since 2004.

Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson have been announced as speakers at the SXSW Music Conference in Austin in March.

Jim Ward has had to cancel his show in Sydney on Friday because a close friend of his Esme Barrera has been murdered.

Australia’s biggest touring festival, The Big Day Out has announced a new partnership with C3 Presents, the company behind American juggernaut festivals Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits Music Festival.

The Australian College of the Arts (Collarts) has added three new degree programs specialising in the music industry.

Ian Molly Meldrum has made a further step to recovery after doctors operated on his vertebra.

Australia has 46 artists preparing for SXSW 2012.

Michael Buble ‘Christmas’ is the first number one album of 2012 and LMFAO ‘Sexy And I Know It’ the first number one single of 2012 in Australia.

Gotye ‘Making Mirrors’ was the biggest selling Australian album of 2011 and the only Australian album to make the year’s Top 10.

Adele's '21' topped the ARIA Top 100 chart and was the biggest selling album of 2011 in Australia.

LMFAO 'Party Rock Anthem' was the biggest selling song in Australia for 2011.

Not surprisingly Adele ‘21’ was the biggest selling album in Australia this year and LMFAO had the number one single with ‘Party Rock Anthem’.

Ian Molly Meldrum is gradually improving day by day but it will be a long time before he is back on his feet.

Peter Frampton is the latest artist heading to court. This time its with Universal Music over unpaid royalties.

Gotye. Congrats. You have the number one song in Germany.

The Melbourne photographic studio of Kane Hibberd was broken into over Christmas and a lot of Kane’s equipment was stolen.

The Christmas ARIA chart has stayed put with Michael Buble ‘Christmas’ remaining the number one album and Reece Mastin ‘Good Night’ the number one single.

11 days after his horrific ladder accident Ian Molly Meldrum has been taken off life support and is now breathing for himself.

Ian Molly Meldrum awoke for Christmas today.

The Age journalist Karl Quinn has published an explosive article on Australian promoter Andrew McManus.

The Richard Wilkins book ‘Black Ties, Red Carpets, Green Rooms’ was the biggest selling book of the year for New Holland Publishers.

Doctors who operated on Ian Molly Meldrum today at The Alfred Hospital report the operation was a complete success.

Billboard has revealed the top-grossing touring acts of the year, and U2 come out on top by a long way.

Apple founder Steve Jobs will be awarded a posthumous Grammy Award.

New statistics out of the USA put a reality check back into the music industry. For starters, for a solo artist in the USA to earn the minimum wage ($1,160 per month) they need to sell 12,399 tracks on iTunes. For a group, you can divide that figure by the number of members in the band.

Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum will undergo surgery today (December 22, 2012) to repair his broken collarbone and ribs following the fall one week ago at his Richmond home.

The Australian Radio Network (ARN) has added Elf Radio, a 24/7 Christmas radio station to its digital channels.

David Williams, the founder of Shock Records, has left the company he founded 24 years ago.

The Bridge Hotel in the Victorian town of Castlemaine has new owners operating the business and new owners of the building, with the intention of turning it into a live music venue.

The Prince Bandroom’s future has been in doubt recently, but today The Melbourne Pub Group confirmed that it will continue its newly acquired pub as a live music venue.