Sydney act Cosmo’s Midnight is a last minute no-show for SXSW in Texas next week due to via issues.

Local act The Cat Empire land their second ARIA Albums Chart No.1 this week with their seventh studio album “Rising with the Sun”, eleven years after they first took out the top spot.

Danish act Lukas Graham remains at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a fourth straight week (fifth week too in the UK) with “7 Years”, which this week is newly certified ▲Platinum in sales.

The past week has seen incredible losses for the music world with the passing of Ross Hannaford of Daddy Cool, Jon English and Sir George Martin. This week at Noise11 iHeartRadio we pay tribute.

Melissa Etheridge, Jeff Buckley, Killswitch Engage, 3 Doors Down, Alessia Cara, Matt Corby, Sara Storer, and the new SkitzMix lead this week's new releases.

Robert Rigby, the managing director of Jon English's record label Ambition Entertainment was heartbroken by the news of the passing of Jon English today.

Courtney Barnett has been announced as the winner of the 2016 Australian Music Prize.

The second album for English act The 1975 entitled “I Like it When You Sleep, For You Are so Beautiful yet so Unaware of it” debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week, becoming the bands first No.1 and Top 10 entry all in the same week.

For a third consecutive week Danish group Lukas Graham stay atop the ARIA Singles Chart with their international No.1 single “7 Years”.

Boom Crash Opera has a new lead singer. Andrew De Silva, formerly of CDB has replaced original member Dale Ryder.

Steve Berkowitz, the Columbia Records A&R guy who signed Jeff Buckley, joins Noise11 this week to talk about the new Buckley released ‘You and I’.

Tonight Alive, Ray LaMontagne, Loretta Lynn, Miike Snow, Hacktivist, Violent Femmes and Thao & The Get Down Stay Down lead this weeks new music releases.

Wolfmother will showcase the new album ‘Victorious’ with a free show at Austin’s Lady Bird Lake stage during SXSW.

President Barack Obama will deliver a Keynote Conversation at SXSW Interactive in Austin on March 11 and the First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver the opening keynote address for SXSW Music on March 16.

Millions of teens in the Los Angeles area grew up to the voice of Charlie Tuna bringing them their favorite songs on a number of different stations over the years.

The Hilltop Hoods land their fifth No.1 Album in Australia this week, as their collection of songs from their last two albums now with The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra entitled “Drinking from the Sun, Walking Under Stars Restrung” enters at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week.

This weeks ARIA Charts fall on a very special date, the 29th of February, which has only occurred twice before in Australian chart history, 1988 and pre-ARIA in 1964; when the dates lined up perfectly within a leap year that the chart came out on a very unique date in our calendar cycle.

One of the most prestigious labels in the history of jazz, Verve Records will celebrate its 60th anniversary throughout 2016.

Bob Ezrin, who has produced albums by the likes of Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper and KISS, had the tenacity to question Kanye West's credentials and West has gone on a Twitter rant showing his ignorance of the music business.

The 1975, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Santigold, Hands like Houses, Bonnie Raitt, Anthrax, Steve Mason and Triple J’s Hottest 100 Vol.23 lead the weeks new music releases.

After 12 solo albums compared to his old band’s three, Colin Hay is still referred to as “former Men At Work” singer.

Australian company Unify has partnered with Live Nation to bring more hard rock tours to Australia.

After almost 21 years Channel V is switching off.

After last weeks leap to No.1 for the “Molly” TV Soundtrack, it holds for a second week atop the ARIA Albums Chart this week after the second and final part of the mini-series screened last Sunday night.

Another week, and yet another new No.1 single in Australia, as Danish act Lukas Graham who debuted at No.20 last week with “7 Years”, this week leaping nineteen places to take out the top spot on the ARIA Singles Chart (and second week at No.1 in the UK too).

Dr Dog’s Toby Leaman joins iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com to talk about the new album The Psychedelic Swamp, a remaking of the band’s rare first album from 2001.

Simple Plan, The Corrs, Love & Theft, Animal Collective, The Hilltop Hoods, Wolfmother, Jack Garratt and BJ the Chicago Kid top the week's new releases.

Adele attended to perform at the 58th Grammy Awards but none of her new songs qualified for this year’s show.

Courtney Barnett, Keith Urban, Hiatus Kaiyote and Tame Impala have missed out on Grammy Awards for 2016.

Australian acts Tame Impala, Hiatus Kaiyote and Keith Urban has missed out of Grammy trophies at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.