Two of Australia’s most experienced and prolific music photographers, Mary Boukouvalas and Ros O’Gorman, will present their follow up photo exhibition PIT (Photos In Tempo) to coincide with Melbourne Music Week in November.

Artists wishing to apply to showcase at SXSW in Texas have until October 11 to do so.

The 2013 Independent Music Awards will be announced in Melbourne on October 9.

Pseudo Echo will record their first album in 13 years with thanks to fans funding the project via Pledgemusic.

In an extremely busy week for album entries, Kings of Leon land their third consecutive No.1 album on the ARIA chart as their sixth studio album “Mechanical Bull” debuts at top.

Katy Perry’s “Roar” spends a fifth non-consecutive week at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart this week, taking Katy’s accumulated total at the top of the Australian charts to fifteen weeks, placing her at No.49 on the list of acts with the ‘Most Accumulated Weeks at No.1 (1940-2013).

Australian hip-hop artist Illy has started his own record ONETWO and signed his first act.

Kate Miller-Heidke has become an indie artist.

Birdy and Moby lead this weeks new releases.

Former Guns ‘n Roses and Velvet Revolver guitarist Duff McKagan will deliver the CBGB Music Festival Conference keynote in New York in October.

Katy Perry should keeping roaring at No.1 this week in Australia, keeping Miley Cyrus at bay in the No.2 spot with her “Wrecking Ball”.

Allman Brothers legend Greg Allman will perform in Australia for the very first time for Bluesfest and soul legend Aaron Neville will play his first ever solo shows for Bluefest.

James Blunt will be in Sydney next week for a performance for iHeartRADIO.

‘Behind The Candleabra’, the movie about the life of Liberace, won two Emmy Awards.

With just over three months to go for the remainder of 2013, Russell Morris ‘Sharkmouth’ is shaping up to be the underdog success story of the year.

The top three albums in the country are all new entries this week, with Keith Urban taking out the top spot with his ninth studio album entitled “Fuse”.

Katy Perry goes back to No.1 in Australia with her track “Roar” this week, notching up a four week at the top, helped by X-Factor favorite Dami Im’s performance of the song on last weeks show, with Dami’s version entering at No.44.

Former Taxiride singer/songwriter Jason Singh releases his first solo album 'Hummanequin' this week and the 20th anniversary edition of Nirvana's 'In Utereo' is also out today.

After a successful 2012, the ARIA Awards are set to take place on Sunday December 1st at a new venue, Sydney's The Star.

Keith Urban should have the number one album this week with 'Fuse' and after X-Factor contestant Dami Im performed “Roar” by Katy Perry this past week, it could help Katy back to the top spot, and give Dami a Top 30 debut with her rendition.

Big Day Out founder Ken West has confirmed that Soundwave boss AJ Maddah is now part of the Big Day Out team.

Deadmau5 and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will headline the Future Music Festival in 2014.

Within 48 hours of the Australian Radio Network launching the iHeartRADIO mobile app the app has become the number one free app in Australia.

Keith Urban ‘Fuse’ is in a tight battle against The Weeknd ‘Kiss Land’ for the top spot on the US album chart this week with less than 1000 sales between the top two spots with just under half of the weeks sales counted.

Soundwave Touring boss AJ Maddah has confirmed that the Harvest Festival has been officially cancelled.

The word doing the rounds at close of business today (September 16, 2013) was that Soundwave boss AJ Maddah has bought out Ken West’s share of Big Day Out.

Daryl Braithwaite has returned to Sony Music where he recorded his two biggest solo albums more than two decades ago.

The fifth studio album for The Arctic Monkeys entitled “AM” becomes the bands fifth Top 5 album and second No.1, as their debut set “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” went to the top in February of 2006.

X-Factor judge, LMFAO member and the eighth child of Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr., Redfoo (born Stefan Kendall) debuts at the No.1 spot on the ARIA Singles Chart this week with his track “Let's Get Ridiculous”, debuting on Gold (●) sales status.

The City of Melbourne now has a music advisor committee made up 12 active members from the cities various music sectors.