MOFO will return Hobart in January with Amanda Palmer returning to the event as well as Paul Kelly with a line-up once again curated by Brian Ritchie.

Bob Seger's new album, Ride Out, has sold around 56,000 albums during it's opening week, good enough to put it at number 3 for the week.

Aretha Franklin's new album as well as The Flaming Lips take on Sgt Pepper leads the new music releases this week.

AC/DC 'Rock Or Bust' could sell over 300,000 copies in its first week making it one of the fastest sellers of the year despite a forecast half of the last album first week sales.

Fleetwood Mac 'Rumours' has now old over 20 million copies in the USA in that year that not one 2014 releases has sold 1,000,000.

Triple J will mark its 40th anniversary with a concert for Sydney in January.

Scott Weiland will showcase his new band The Wildabouts at SXSW 2015.

Angus & Julia Stone, The Church and Ball Park Music are amongst the first Australian acts to be chosen to showcase at SXSW in Austin, Texas in 2015.

Slipknot could have the number one album in Australia by week's end. '5 The Grey Chapter' is one of the fastest selling albums in the country this week.

U2’s spam stunt has hurt US sales.

The Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRAs) were held on Saturday night in Melbourne.

Triple J land their second No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart as “Like a Version Volume 10” debuts at the top this week, and fifty-one weeks ago (28-Oct-13) Volume 9 did the same thing by entering at the top of the ARIA Chart.

Ed Sheeran climbs to No.1 with his single “Thinking Out Loud” after two weeks of sitting in second position, plus the song also achieves ▲Platinum in sales this week.

Karise Eden had a few seconds added to her 15 minutes of fame this week after appearing on the ABC’s Australia Story.

iHeartRadio Music News, powered by Noise11.com features the brand new Foo Fighters, Pink Floyd, Neil Young and David Bowie this week.

The winners of The Age Music Victoria Genre Music Awards were revealed on Thursday night at Media House, Melbourne.

Lindsay ‘The Doctor’ McDougall is leaving Triple J in the nicest possible way … he is F***king off.

Slipknot, The Church and Neil Diamond are three artists to look out for with new music this week.

Ed Sheeran looks set to land his second No.1 single here in Australia this coming weekend as “Thinking Out Loud” looks set to climb to the top of the ARIA Singles chart.

Mark Holden has apologized for his clown performance on Dancing With The Stars, not that it matters.

Broadcast Music honoured internationally-celebrated lyricist Sir Tim Rice as a BMI Icon at the 2014 BMI London Awards.

Tony Romeril, the former lead singer of 70s hit Aussie band Autumn, is working on a new music project to honor the final work of Ted Mulry.

Michael Franti and the Zac Brown Band lead the first announcement for the Big Sky Blues & Roots Festival for Deniliquin over Easter 2015.

Robert Rigby, the man behind the platinum success of Russell Morris, has signed Paulini to iconic record label Decca for a new album.

Ed Sheeran is again at the top of the ARIA Albums chart this week with “x”.

The Veronicas stay for a third week at No.1 on the ARIA Singles chart with their ballad “You Ruin Me”, which has now been newly certified ▲Platinum in sales after claiming Gold only last week.

Voting for the Melbourne Music Bank prize has been extended until October 19.

In the past 24 hours the music world has paid its respects to writer, author and lyricist Ed Nimmervoll who passed away on Friday after a battle with brain cancer.

The Pink and Dallas Green collaboration You+Me leads this weeks new releases with Bryan Adams, Jessie J and Little May.

On iHeartRadio Music News, powered by Noise11.com, you will hear the new AC/DC song 'Play Ball' as well as new music from the all star The Impossible Orchestra covering the Brian Wilson classic 'God Only Knows' with Brian.