The City of Melbourne has revealed a bold three-year strategy to build on the $1billion music industry.

The Melbourne International Jazz Festival has a lot of surprises for 2018 including a collaboration called The Others pairing jazz geniuses Paul Grabowsky and James Morrison with Rock God Kram from Spiderbait.

Police have dismissed a connection between a man who emailed a bomb threat shutting down a concert by The Roots at SXSW to the three other bombings in Austin this past week.

Melbourne music businessman James Young has announced he will put his name forward to run for Lord Mayor in the City of Melbourne.

The Unified Music Group, founded by Jaddan Comerford, has signed a global distribution deal with Sony Music.

John Farnham wasn’t available for the Music Victoria membership drive but Jake Mason of Cookin’ On 3 Burners was. Unfortunately, so was Music Victoria CEO Patrick Donovan who makes his vocal debut in the video.

Ed Sheeran holds again at No.1 for a 24th week with his third album "÷ (Divide)" and it could be there again next week, as he has two more shows in Brisbane this coming week before heading to New Zealand next week.

It's Drake and his "God's Plan" at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a seventh straight week, becoming his longest running No.1 in Australia.

When Robert Goodge of I’m Talking called into Noise11 to talk about the expanded reissue of the band’s one and only album ‘Bear Witness’ he said it was his first interview in 28 years.

Major new titles coming this week from: Stone Temple Pilots, Eskimo Joe (re-issue), XXXTentacion, They Might Be Giants, Billy Ray Cyrus, Scotty McCreery, Kim Wilde, Snoop Dogg, The Fratellis and the Love, Simon soundtrack.

Triple J’s Ben & Liam will broadcast live from the Melbourne Town Hall on Good Friday with a dose of funny mixes with a smidge of song.

Gang of Youths, Amy Shark, Paul Kelly, Jessica Mauboy and Ainslie Wills have songs shortlisted for the APRA Song of the Year for 2018.

EveryOneBand, a project conceived by Mark Callaghan of GANGgajang, has gathered up some of the biggest names in Australian music for a charity song for Support Act and is inviting you to join them.

Ed Sheeran's current national tour of Australia helps his third album "÷ (Divide)" to regain the top spot on the ARIA Albums chart for a 23rd non-consecutive week as the top selling album here.

Drake holds for a sixth consecutive week at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with his "God's Plan" tune, now equalling his former run at the top in Australia.

Jessica Mauboy will represent Australia at Eurovision once again this year with a brand new song ‘We Got Love’.

Sampa The Great was won the Australian Music Prize with her album ‘Birds and the Bee9’.

Glenn Richards of Augie March tells the stories behind the band’s new album ‘Bootikans’ this week. The album was the very last thing producer Tony Cohen worked on before he died.

Major new titles coming this week from: Judas Priest, Three Days Grace, Mia Dyson, David Byrne, What So Not, Albert Hammond Jr., Calum Scott, Ian Moss, Editors and Erasure.

Richard Jones of Stereophonics is at iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com talking about the longer, bigger Stereophonics setlist for their upcoming Australian tour.

Local Australian act Vance Joy lands his second No.1 album with his second album "Nation of Two" atop the ARIA Albums chart this week.

It's a fifth consecutive week at No.1 for the Drake track "God's Plan" logging as many weeks at the top during 2018 as "Perfect" by current tourist Ed Sheeran.

Sounds Australia will pull in Hugh Jackman and Curtis Stone to assist in singing the praises of Australian music at SXSW in Austin, Texas for 2018.

Ed Sheeran has broken a 32 year old record for ticket sales in Australia surpassing Dire Straits 950,000 ticket sale record of 1986 with over 1 million sales for his current Australian tour.

Neil Young has posted a new open letter that was published on Friday (February 23) on the Neil Young Archive.

It's a stable No.1 for an eighth straight week as "The Greatest Showman" soundtrack is the top selling ARIA Albums Chart leader again this week.

Drake and his track "God's Plan" claims the No.1 spot in Australia for a fourth week, the track receiving it's first certification this week, leaping straight to Platinum in sales.

With both SXSW and the APRA AMCOS Awards less than a month away this week at iHeartRadio music news powered by Noise11.com you’ll hear a stack of new Australian music from Pretty City, Bad Pony, RVG, Gang of Youths, Alex Lahey, Paul Kelly, Jen Cloher and Dan Sultan.

Major new titles coming this week from: Vance Joy, Turnstile, Lo Moon, We Sell the Dead and a James Blundell tribute album.

The SXSW Music Festival and Conference kicks off in two weeks with a stack of Aussie acts heading over once again for 2018.