New York’s iconic music store Bleecker Bob’s Records will close in May.

Paramore land their second consecutive No.1 album in Australia, as their fourth, self-titled album debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart becoming the eighth consecutive No.1 debut at the top.

The top three singles in Australia this week hold steady from last week, with Passenger spending a third week at No.1 with “Let Her Go”.

Record company executive Tim Carr has been murdered in Thailand.

The 1939 Wizard Of Oz classic ‘Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead’ could end up being the biggest selling song in England this week.

‘Sharkmouth’, the “labour of love” Aussie rock legend Russell Morris, will be the number 6 album when the ARIA chart is updated tomorrow.

Margaret Thatcher is proving good for music sales in the UK. The ‘Wizard of Oz’ classic ‘Ding Dong The Witch is Dead’ by Judy Garland has now leapt to number 2 on the iTunes chart. It also went to number 1 on Amazon.

Producer/engineer Andy Johns, who worked on classic albums like Led Zeppelin IV and the Rolling Stones ‘Exile On Main Street’, has died. He was 61.

The Logie Awards, what a complete waste of time that was.

Aussie bass player Neil Smith, a one-time member of AC/DC and Rose Tattoo, has lost his battle with cancer.

Research into 40 years of changes in the music industry by digitalmusicnews.com shows that the music industry has been in a constant state of change.

English metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon take their fourth album “Sempiternal” into the No.1 spot in Australia, their second such occurrence, as their October 2010 set “There is a Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen it…” debuted at the top, with Australia being the only country in the world so far to give the band ANY No.1 albums.

Passenger spends a second week at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with his track “Let Her Go”.

The four members of Crazy Horse, Neil Young, Frank Sampedro, Ralph Molina and Billy Talbot, have signed a guitar for SLAM to auction.

After 45 years in the music business Russell Morris has scored his first ever Top 10 album with ‘Sharkmouth’. The album will land at number 10 on the ARIA chart on Sunday.

Australian music fans are mourning the death of The Angels’ bass player Chris Bailey, who passed away this morning (April 4) at 12:30am after a battle with cancer.

Perth singer songwriter Georgi Kay has signed with Parlophone Records, the label that launched The Beatles.

Phil Ramone, the producer to the superstars like Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand, Paul Simon and Billy Joel, died in a Manhattan hospital while being treated for an Aortic Aneurysm.

Bluesfest director Peter Noble has announced the inaugural Boomerang Festival for October on the Bluesfest site.

Never before have so many major music names been in Australia at one time. Without question, Australia is the music centre of the universe right now and that is with thanks to three people … Peter Noble, Michael Chugg and Rob Potts.

Phil Ramone, the producer of some of the greatest albums of the 20th Century, has died in New York after being admitted to a Manhattan hospital for surgery.

Breaking the eight week running one-week-at-the-top for number one albums by staying at the top for a second week is Justin Timberlake’s “The 20/20 Experience”, beating the one week his previous album stayed at the top back in 2006.

Current tourist Passenger scores his eighth international number one placement by moving up one spot to the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with his hit “Let Her Go”.

The Bluesfest music festival at Byron Bay has unveiled its new Lotus Palace solar powered performance stage.

Robert Zildjian, founder of Sabian Cymbals, has died at the age of 89.

The Australian music industry is planning a Sydney-sized farewell for Aaron Chugg, who died on March 18 from complications from a stroke he had while tour managing The Stone Roses.

Justin Timberlake’s ‘The 20/20 Experience’ has sold almost 1 million units in its first week on sale in the USA.

Husky Gawenda of Husky is one of eight songwriters to win an APRA Professional Development Award.

The third studio album for Justin Timberlake becomes his second No.1 album in Australia as “The 20/20 Experience” debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums chart, plus is also certified Gold, something which the previous five No.1 debuts did not achieve.

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis land their third consecutive number one single in Australia this week as “Can’t Hold Us” (featuring Ray Dalton) rises one place to take out the top spot on the ARIA Singles Chart.