Brisbane’s Bigsound will kick off 3 September for three days. Here’s a list of who you can see for 2019:

Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande are leading the MTV Video Award nominations for 2019.

When John Farnham performs at Sydney’s Cockatoo Island for One Electric Day it will be the second time in as many years John has played on the historic grounds.

Chance the Rapper will not perform at Splendour In The Grass. Instead of appearing at his scheduled Splendour In The Grass show today, he is still home in America.

It's a fourth consecutive No.1 album in Australia for Ed Sheeran as his new album "No.6 Collaborations Project" debuts at the top here and also in New Zealand, Belgium, The Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Sweden and in his home country of England (so far).

It's a thirteenth week at No.1 for the fused rap/country track "Old Town Road" for Lil' Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus, the song now the equal second longest running No.1 song for this decade.

Major new titles coming this week from: Sum 41, Scott Stapp, Crown the Empire, Mike Love, Nas, Christie Lamb, Sabrina Carpenter, Thom Yorke (phys), Stonefield, Iggy Azalea and the 'Palm Beach' soundtrack.

The town of Vernon USA has rejected a permit for Woodstock 50 at the Vernon Downs Racecourse and the owner of the racecourse, Jeff Gural, is mighty pissed off.

Google has finally put a stop to ticket scalpers Viagogo after thousands of complaints, government pressure and mounting legal action.

Violent Femmes’ Brian Ritchie has been nominated for the Excellence by an Individual Award at the 2019 APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards.

Australian blues guitarist Ash Grunwald will unveil his new signature guitar for Pratley Guitars at the Melbourne Guitar Show in August.

Act 1 of the Helpmann Awards were announced in Melbourne on Sunday night ahead of the main event tonight (Monday, 15 July 2019).

In a lull week of releases ahead of a new Ed Sheeran album on the Friday just gone, Billie Eilish regains the No.1 Albums spot in Australia for a seventh week at the top with "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?".

It's a twelfth week at No.1 for the rap/country infused track "Old Town Road" for the rapper Lil' Nas X and the country legend Billy Ray Cyrus, becoming the longest running chart-leader in almost two years ago.

Former My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way and Grimes have paid tribute to their manager Lauren Valencia after learning she has lost her cancer battle.

Major new titles coming this week from: Ed Sheeran, AllDay, Bloc Party (Live), Thelma Plum, America (GH), Banks, K. Flay, DMA's (Live), New Order and the soundtracks for 'The Lion King' (2019) and 'Spider-Man: Far from Home'.

Mark Lizotte (aka Diesel) has had one of his biggest touring years in 2019 and it all started with Red Hot Summer in January.

Kylie Minogue’s ‘Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection’ debuted at number one on the ARIA chart this week because of Vinyl. Despite this being Kylie’s 13th compilation, this was the first time fans could buy all of her hits in one place on vinyl.

Fourteen months after her fifth No.1 album locally, this week Kylie Minogue lands her sixth chart-topping album in Australia as her fourth (major) best of set "Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection" takes out the top spot here and also in England.

Melbourne singer-songwriter Eilish Gilligan is the 2019 Josh Pyke Partnership.

Major new titles coming this week from: Michael Hutchence/INXS, Marshmello, Machine Gun Jelly, 3Teeth, Lighthouse Family, Olympia, David Bridie and Stranger Things Season 3.

Phil Tripp, the SXSW representative for Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii, has left SXSW after 17 years.

News of the death of the CD has been very much exaggerated according to Chris Carey, CEO of Media Insight Consulting.

When the Helpmann Awards are handed out in Melbourne for the very first time on 15 July there will be a very special world first as part of the show, the cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will perform a montage from the show.

Taylor Swift's ME! collaborator Brendon Urie has taken his pal's side in her war of words with music mogul Scooter Braun, calling him "toxic".

Ariana Grande has encouraged Taylor Swift to "stay strong" in her feud with Scooter Braun following her online rant about the music mogul's new ownership of her old masters.

Phil Tripp, the SXSW Senior Business Develop Manager for Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii, will host Meet N Greet info nights for the 2020 event mid-July in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney.

Dave Leslie of Baby Animals will host a workshop at the Melbourne Guitar Show in August.

Lewis Capaldi bounces back to Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart with is debut collection Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent.

Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber extend their reign at Number 1 with I Don’t Care to a seventh consecutive week on this week’s Official Singles Chart.