Nominees for the 16th Helpmann Awards, honouring live performance in Australia, were announced on Monday night.

Australian jazz great Joe Chindamo is the latest recipient into the Graeme Bell Jazz Hall of Fame.

Singer Katie Noonan sent Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull stumbling for an answer over Arts Funding on Q&A on Monday night.

The Australian Stock Exchange has rejected plans by streaming company Guvera to float on the ASX.

Jimmy Barnes ‘Soul Searchin’ is still the no 1 CD in Australia despite slipping to no 3 on the ARIA album chart.

The third album for local rock act The Temper Trap entitled "Thick as Thieves" becomes the bands second consecutive No.1 album and third Top 10 set, entering at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week.

For the first time this year a song has climbed back up to the top of the ARIA Singles chart, and with the last such occurrence being back in September 2014, it's been awhile since we've seen a returning track; as this week "One Dance" by Drake notches up his fifth week at the top of the Australian singles chart.

US Senate candidate and music producer Steven Machat has called for tighter gun control in the lead-up to the US elections.

New music is struggling to grab a presence on the iTunes album chart in Australia today with a flood of cheap best of’s taking up one-third of the Top 30.

Neko Case is the special guest at Noise11 iHeartRadio this week as ‘case/lang/veirs’, her album with kd lang and Laura Veirs is released worldwide.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, case/lang/veirs, Bob Evans, Jake Bugg, Mumford & Sons (EP), and the new So Fresh comp and Finding Dory soundtrack lead the week's new music releases.

Jimmy Barnes, Katie Noonan and Josh Pyke are just a few Australian Music names who have raised their voices ahead of the Australian election for governments to support the Australian Music Industry.

The Metal Hammer Golden God Awards in association with Fireball blew the roof off a sold-out Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith last night, and honored the very best of the past 12 months’ metal and rock from around the globe.

Songwriters are advised to get their Performance Report into APRA AMCOS by July 31 to receive payment for their work.

The sixteenth studio album and fourth soul album for Jimmy Barnes debuts at No.1 this week entitled "Soul Searchin'", and the set becomes his eleventh No.1 album in Australia, the most for a local artist, and the equal second best of all time here.

Per Gessle of Roxette is at Noise11 iHeartRadio this week to tell us about the latest Roxette 'Good Karma' that may very well be their last.

The Temper Trap, Garbage, Band of Horses, Nick Jonas, U2 (live), Paul McCartney, Air, Fitz & the Tantrums, Kongos, Tom Odell, Ngaire and Van Morrison lead this week's new music releases.

Mushroom boss Michael Gudinski has welcomed the music policy for the Labor Party to reverse the damage of the current government's vanity program Catalyst.

The RIAA has given out their latest Gold and Platinum awards and, during the last month, with Creedence Clearwater Revival 'Chronicle' passing the 10 million sales mark to go Diamond.

The Monkees are officially back and riding high on the charts.

The Australian Labor Party was vowed to dismantle the George Brandis vanity fund Catalyst and restore Arts Funding back with the Australia Council.

The planned IPO of music streaming company Guvera on the Australian Stock Exchange has sent a terrifying chill through the investment community with some financial experts wondering exactly what the ASX is doing.

The Monkees will return to the US Top 10 for the first time in 48 years this week.

The Monkees have just scored their highest album chart position in Australia in nearly 50 years.

The second album for Flume entitled "Skin" becomes his second successive album to debut in the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart.

After four weeks at No.2, the Calvin Harris and Rihanna track "This is What You Came for" climbs to the top of the ARIA Singles Chart, becoming the second No.1 for Calvin and now the tenth in Australia for Rihanna.

Mac Cocker, a long-term broadcaster for ABC Radio in Australia and the father of Jarvis Cocker, has died.

After a stunning debut season in 2015 the Melbourne Guitar Show will return with an expanded line-up, more exhibitions and more demonstrations that last year.

Jimmy Barnes tells the stories behind the songs from his new album 'Soul Searchin' at iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com.

Jimmy Barnes leads the weeks new music releases along with Tegan & Sara, Paul Simon, Rolling Stones, Roxette, Train, Michael Franti & Spearhead and The Kills.