Sam Smith takes the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums chart for the first time with his debut album “In the Lonely Hour”, the set helped by his national tour starting the 25th of April and it jumps up four places after having spent 48 weeks on the charts and this is the sets 37th week within the Top 10.

Holding for a third week on top of the ARIA Singles chart is the song from the ‘Furious 7’ soundtrack by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth entitled “See You Again”.

Australian singer/songwriter Lior performed his song ‘Safety of Distance’ at the Centenary Dawn Service in Gallipoli, Turkey today.

New music releases this week include albums by Blur, Josh Groban, Millencolin, Ruby Boots, Reba McEntire and The Airborne Toxic Event.

Ryan Adams will return to Australia and New Zealand for dates in July.

Paul Kelly has once again articulated the mood of Australia as we lead into ANZAC Day with a new song titled ‘Letter From A Trench’.

Australian artists have been working on a Chrissy Amphlett tribute in recent months and now ‘Divinyls Reworked’ has been released.

The City of Yarra has revealed the third annual Leaps and Bounds Music Festival at a launch party at the Gasometer in Collingwood and once again, it has announced an outstanding lineup with over 50 venues collectively hosting more than 300 events featuring around 800 acts during the 17 day festival.

Jimmy Dixon of Django Django is the special guest on iHeartRadio Music News, powered by Noise11 this week.

Kris Kristofferson has recorded a cover of Tom Petty's 'I Won't Back Down' for a History Channel show.

The Chemical Brothers will release Born in the Echoes, the eighth studio album of their twenty year career, with appearances from Beck and St. Vincent.

Splendour In The Grass have announced Sideshows around Australia with dates for The Wombats, The Vaccines, Ms Mr, Years and Years, Wolf Alice and The Districts.

Blur will perform in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth as well as their Splendour In The Grass headliner in July.

Tex Perkins will perform ‘One Minute’s Silence’, a tribute to the ANZACs, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground this Saturday, April 25 for ANZAC Day.

Richard Clapton has titled his one-off Sydney show The Lonesome Voyager this year.

Adam Lambert will get by with a little help from his friend Brian May on his new album.

Joan Jett says rock and roll gives people the ability to say exactly what they mean.

Metallica's special cassette release for Record Store Day was the second biggest selling item on the day last weekend.

The Bob Dylan tribute show ‘Forever Young: The Songs of Bob Dylan’ will return for 2015 with another all-star line-up of Melbourne musos performing for songs of Dylan.

Splendour In the Grass tickets were snapped up fast and the event sold-out within an hour of going on sale today.

Cosmic Psychos have been working on their first album in four years and ill tour with Dune Rats when the album is released.

The Charlatans, featuring Tim Burgess, Mark Collins, Martin Blunt and Tony Rogers, have a new video for 'Let The Good Times Be Never Ending'.

Conrad Sewell has added extra shows in both Melbourne and Sydney for his first Aussie headline tour.

'Cobain: Montage of Heck' is the first authorised Kurt Cobain documentary, directed by Brett Morgen.

Gilbert O'Sullivan has a new album and UK tour plans.

Nile Rodgers thought he would die before his bandmates and contemporaries.

Just two weeks after Jay-Z introduced his Tidal streaming service, the interest has almost dropped out of site. With the share price escalating and then sliding, Tidal has caused a major 'Pump and Dump' on the Swedish Stock Exchange.

Ben Lee will perform a limited number of shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in June to showcase the release of his new album ‘Love Is The Great Rebellion’.

Milk Carton Kids will return to Australia in June for live dates on the East Coast.

Panic! At The Disco premiered their brand new track, "Hallelujah," this morning exclusively on Los Angeles' world famous KROQ in a surprise for fans and industry alike.