Greens Senator Scott Ludlam is suggesting Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is behind the Abbott government plans to kneecap the ABC.

Charli XCX has been added as a presenter to the ARIA Awards, to be held in Sydney this Wednesday.

Denis Handlin AM, Chairman & CEO, Australia & New Zealand and President, Asia, will receive the ARIA Industry Icon award at this ARIA’s on Wednesday.

One Direction debut at No.1 with their fourth album entitled “Four”, which also enters on Gold (●) sales, plus its becomes their fourth consecutive No.1 album in Australia, a first for an overseas act.

Billy Joel will set a new record for most performances at Madison Square Garden this summer.

Taylor Swift climbs a place to No.1 with “Blank Space”, becoming her third chart-topping single in Australia and her second for this year after “Shake it off” spent three weeks at the top of the ARIA Singles chart back in September.

The legendary Chuck Leavell has spent over 40 years with some of the biggest names on the planet including the Allman Brothers, Eric Clapton, George Harrison and for the past 32 years as musical director of The Rolling Stones.

Lindsey Stirling joined classical music legend Andrea Bocelli on his UK tour dates playing London's O2 Arena this week.

Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall hosted a reception at Clarence House on Thursday 20 November to celebrate PRS for Music's centenary.

Bastille's first taste of 'VS.' comes in the form of new single 'Torn Apart', a collaboration with London producer Grades.

The Script have debuted the video for their new song No Good In Goodbye.

Queen Latifah will be hosting the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert on December 11 in Oslo, Norway. ​ ​

The Flaming Lips dip back into the Beatles' well again, or at least of member John Lennon, with a new cover of the classic Happy Christmas (War is Over).

Cher has been forced to cancel the balance of her Dressed to Kill Tour, including dates through February, to recover from an infection.

Wilko Johnson was on the BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans Breakfast Show Friday morning and discussed his incredible recovery from terminal pancreatic cancer.

The Rolling Stones have won the Top Boxscore Award at the 11th annual Billboard Touring Awards.

The Queen Latifah Show, the singer's syndicated talk program, has been cancelled by it's production company.

The Rolling Stones will play their final show of 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand on Saturday and voting is now open for the show.

Albums by Coldplay and Guy Sebastian lead the week's new music releases.

The Save The Palace protest turned ugly in Melbourne on Thursday when protesters were attacked while demonstrating the unauthorised destruction of Melbourne venue The Palace in Bourke Street.

Legendary producer T. Bone Burnett is this week's special guest on iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com.

Councillor Rohan Leppert of the City of Melbourne has called today's destruction of the iconic Palace Theatre "an act of vandalism".

Dan Sultan and Courtney Barnett are Victoria's hottest acts of 2014 after both scored multiple awards at 2014 Age Music Victoria Music Awards.

Former Silverchair singer Daniel Johns has pleaded guilty in a Newcastle court on drunk driving charges.

Angus Young and Brian Johnson of AC/DC joked about Phil Rudd’s recent run-in with the law on the Howard Stern show.

Pink Floyd are registering record streaming figures for Spotify but the surprise is the listeners are a lot younger than you would expect.

The Veronicas will take their new album on the road in 2015 for Sanctified tour.

Bret Michaels is one truly dedicated musician, but sometimes it is to the detriment of his own well being.

For the first time since 1991, Billboard is changing the methodology they use for calculating their Top 200 Album chart.

The Bangles have assembled sixteen tracks from their early career, EPs and live performances on Ladies and Gentlemen...The Bangles!