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.
April 10, 2013
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.
April 8, 2013
The Logie Awards, what a complete waste of time that was.
April 7, 2013
Aussie bass player Neil Smith, a one-time member of AC/DC and Rose Tattoo, has lost his battle with cancer.
April 7, 2013
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.
April 7, 2013
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.
April 7, 2013
Passenger spends a second week at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with his track “Let Her Go”.
April 7, 2013
The four members of Crazy Horse, Neil Young, Frank Sampedro, Ralph Molina and Billy Talbot, have signed a guitar for SLAM to auction.
April 6, 2013
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.
April 6, 2013
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.
April 4, 2013
Perth singer songwriter Georgi Kay has signed with Parlophone Records, the label that launched The Beatles.
April 3, 2013
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.
April 2, 2013
Bluesfest director Peter Noble has announced the inaugural Boomerang Festival for October on the Bluesfest site.
April 1, 2013 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.
April 1, 2013
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.
March 31, 2013
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.
March 31, 2013 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”.
March 31, 2013
The Bluesfest music festival at Byron Bay has unveiled its new Lotus Palace solar powered performance stage.
March 29, 2013
Robert Zildjian, founder of Sabian Cymbals, has died at the age of 89.
March 29, 2013
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.
March 27, 2013 Justin Timberlake’s ‘The 20/20 Experience’ has sold almost 1 million units in its first week on sale in the USA.
March 27, 2013
Husky Gawenda of Husky is one of eight songwriters to win an APRA Professional Development Award.
March 25, 2013 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.
March 24, 2013
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.
March 24, 2013
Melbourne has claimed the Live Music Capital of Australia title following a live music census.
March 21, 2013
The Flaming Lips have been named winners of the inaugural Grulke Prize by SXSW along with Glasgow’s Chvrches and US act Haim.
March 20, 2013
Bon Jovi ‘What About Now’ outsold David Bowie ‘The Next Day’ by around 16,000 units in the USA to take the top spot this week on the American chart.
March 20, 2013
Aussie tour manager Aaron Chugg has passed away after suffering from a stroke while tour managing for The Stone Roses at the Future Music Festival last week.
March 19, 2013 Bon Jovi ‘What About Now’ will narrowly beat David Bowie ‘The Next Day’ to the top of the US chart this week.
March 19, 2013 David Bowie's new album, 'The Next Day', gave him both his first U.K. No. 1 album in 20 years and the market’s fastest-selling artist album of 2013 when it made its chart debut on Sunday.
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