After nearly two decades in Sydney, Live Performance Australia, the producers of The Helpmanns, have announced the event will take place at Arts Centre Melbourne for the first time.

Melbourne singer-songwriter Angie McMahon has been awarded the Grulke Prize for Developing Non-U.S. Act at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

Ariana Grande logs a fourth broken week at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week with her fifth studio album "thank u, next".

Major new titles coming this week from: il Volo, Sontalk, Karen O & Danger Mouse, Jack Savoretti, The Soul Movers, Ocean Party, Dan Sultan and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Red Hot Summer series two is coming to its finale this weekend with a sold-out show for Port Macquarie on Saturday and then the final farewell at Bribie Island on Sunday.

For the second time in 2019 an album has reclaimed the top spot on the ARIA Albums Chart, as this week "thank u, next" for Ariana Grande climbs back up one spot to reign again in the No.1 spot here.

Holding at No.1 again this week is the recent Oscar-winning song "Shallow" for Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, plus the song log its first week at the top in both Canada and America (after charting for the past 21 weeks in both locales).

54 Australian acts will perform during SXSW 2019.

Major new titles coming this week from: Buckcherry, H.E.R., Maren Morris, Amanda Palmer, Paul Weller (Live), Foals, Kerser, James Morrison (UK), Dido, Flight of the Conchords (Live), Sigrid, Tim Rogers, Juice WRLD, Sasami, Mick Thomas, Celtic Woman, David Bridie, Townes Van Zandt and David Gray.

Gurrumul’s ‘Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow)’ has won for Australian Music Prize for 2019.

One of Melbourne’s most respected music industry identities Serge Thomann has today received one of France’s highest honours, Chevalier (Knight) de l’Ordre national du Mérite.

Suzi Quatro and The Angels will spend a Red Hot Summer on the Central Coast and Gold Coast this weekend.

With the New South Wales election just weeks away on 23 March music fans in the pissed off state have a chance to vote out Gladys Berejiklian and her antiquated government.

Download Festival is on this weekend in Sydney and Melbourne. Here is everything you need to know to get through the day.

Last weekend The 91st Academy Awards (aka The Oscars) were held, and the winner for 'Best Original Song' was won by the Lady Gaga and Mark Ronson penned track "Shallow", which this week returns for a fourth week atop the ARIA Singles Chart.

The Farmer and the Owl Festival will happen in Wollongong this weekend despite the event happening in the state of incompetence, New South Wales.

Live Performance Australia’s Evelyn Richardson has responded to New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s incompetence in dealing with the music industry by saying Berejiklian’s government’s “new regulations without any consultation reflect a government that has no strategy for supporting live music in NSW.”

Gladys Berejiklian’s Footloosian music policy has angered the music community nationally, and none more so than Laneway founder Danny Rogers who calls the archaic Liberal policy “preposterous”.

Ticketmaster has acquired Moshtix giving the Live Nation owns ticketing giant new revenues from Groovin’ The Moo, Oxford Art Factory, Supanova, and the Australian Turf Club.

Eminem has broken a Melbourne Cricket Ground record for ticket sales for a single show but Madonna and the Rolling Stones sold more tickets during their 1993 and 1995 tours.

This week Ariana Grande logs her longest run at No.1 in Australia as her fifth studio album "thank u, next" holds for a second week at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, plus it's sold enough in the past two weeks to be certified Gold (●) in sales this week.

The Ariana Grande track "7 Rings" retains it hold at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a fifth straight week, plus the track lands its first sales certification and is newly ▲Platinum in sales.

The fifth studio album for Ariana Grande called "thank u, next" enters at the top of the charts here in Australia, plus also in England and New Zealand.

Ariana Grande logs a fourth week at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with her song "7 Rings", plus she is also joined at No.2 by one of the many tracks from her fifth album "thank u, next".

The Night Time Industries Association has delivered a five point plan to New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejeklian to try and focus her away from her ‘Footloose’ philosophy.

Major new titles coming this week from: Drake, Avril Lavigne, Heart (Live), Millencolin, RY X, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Florida Georgia Line, India Arie, Kiss (GH), The Beasts (of Bourbon), Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier, The Cat Empire, Methyl Ethel, Betty Who and the WOMAD 2019 & Triple J's Hottest 100 Vol.26 compilations.

Live Performance Australia Chief Executive Evelyn Richard has sent a public letter to the Premier of New South Wales Gladys Berejiklian to urge the Liberal Party leader to think before she acts on music policy.

The Vanda & Young songwriting contest is happening again with Australian songwriters invited to submit songs for the worlds largest cash prize in the songwriting content … $50,000.

Memo Music Hall is handing over its space fortnightly to songwriters to showcase and readiest their new material.

The music industry of Australia will gather to support live music in NSW which has come under threat with its archaic 'Footloose'-like policy aimed to destroy the live music scene of New South Wales.