Harts, 8 Ball Aitken, Stonefield and Andy Clockwise will showcase at SXSW in March.

Sam Smith has beat Brian Wilson, Ellie Goulding, Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth and David Lang to take home the Golden Globe for Best Original Song.

Adele ‘25’ is still selling in outstanding numbers with the title last week alone counting for 10% of all album sales in the Top 100.

Seven weeks and running for Adele as her third set “25” remains at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart again this week.

Justin Bieber scores his longest running No.1 single in Australia this week, as “Love Yourself” is atop the ARIA Singles chart for a fifth consecutive week.

iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com returns this week with tributes to Stevie Wright and Lemmy, new music from Bowie and an interview with Mak from Brothers 3.

Western Australia's Southbound Festival has now been officially cancelled after a bushfire alert and alternate measures were taken on Thursday.

David Bowie 'Blackstar' leads the weeks new music releases.

It's time to once again look back at the state of the music industry in the year just passed.

Not since Pink has an act scored the ARIA No.1 Album of the Year twice, but for 2015 Adele and her third set “25”, it took out the top honors, matching the top spot her previous album “21” achieved for 2011.

The first No.1 single for last year becomes the highest selling track for the past year, as “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars claims the top spot on the ARIA Top 100 Singles of 2015.

The lack of Australian acts in the ARIA end of year Top 100 Singles chart proves Australian support for Australian artists is at an all-time low.

Adele ‘25’ is not showing any signs of slowing down as we hit the first week of 2016.

Adele and her mega third album “25” stay atop the ARIA Albums Chart for a sixth straight week, also becoming the first No.1 album for 2016.

The first ARIA Chart for 2016 has Justin Bieber holding for a fourth straight week with “Love Yourself”, which matches the four week’s his previous No.1 “What Do You Mean” (TW-9) achieved back in September of 2015.

The Stevie Wright farewell will take place at Sydney’s St Andrews Cathedral on January 8.

‘Red Dirt Red Heart’, the third part of the Russell Morris blues trilogy, has spent seven of the last nine weeks at the top of ARIA Blues and Jazz Chart and ends the year as Australia’s no 1 blues album of 2015.

The Falls Festival for Lorne has been relocated to the Mt Duneed Winery in Geelong as a result of the Victorian bush fires raging out of control along the Great Ocean Road.

Adele remains at the top of the ARIA Albums chart for a fifth straight week with “25”, but the first week without a new certification, although with it being Christmas week, not everything is back on track and I’m sure we will see a new certification in the new year.

Justin Bieber remains at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a third week with “Love Yourself”, but he also moves back up to No.2 with “Sorry” which has already notched up four weeks at that position, after which it spent four more weeks at No.3, and now this week it racks up a fifth week in the second position.

Ministry's Al Jourgensen has made a scathing appraisal of Soundwave boss AJ Maddah calling the failed Australian promoter a "douchebag" and a 'lying Scumbag" after Soundwave crashed and burned one week before Christmas.

2015 was by far the year of Adele but it was also a great year for Australian acts Cold Chisel, Parkway Drive, Tame Impala, 5 Seconds of Summer and Hermitude.

The Beatles catalogue is now streaming.

Soundwave ticketing agency Eventopia has backed down on their initial refusal to refund punters following the spectacular collapse of the Soundwave music festival.

Racking up her fourth week at the top of the ARIA Albums chart is Adele with her “25” set, which each week has seen a new sales certification, and this week is no different, as the album is now 7x▲Platinum in sales.

Justin Bieber continues to fulfil his chart comeback by remaining at the top of the ARIA Singles chart for a second week, as his track “Love Yourself” racks up another week at No.1.

Trent Reznor announced on Twitter Friday he and his bandmates are planning on releasing a new Nine Inch Nails album.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced their inductees for 2016. Let the complaining begin.

Soundwave’s failed mogul AJ Maddah has blamed “the haters” for the downfall of his beloved festival. Well he is about to get 18000 more.

Jess & Matt (XF), Pnatera box-set, Baroness and the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens & Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight soundtrack lead the pre-Christmas new releases.