Peter Holland of Melbourne lobby group #IlovemyPalais, angered by the secrecy surrounding the potential take-over of Melbourne’s iconic Palais Theatre by Live Nation, has sent an open letter of protest demanding answers to Victoria’s Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change, Lily D’Ambrosio.

Entrepreneur rock star Dave Stewart will head up for new advisory board of Music Gateway.

The Leaps and Bounds Bus Tour, Bruce Milne’s trek around Melbourne visiting the birth sites of Australian music, has a few celebs coming along for the ride this year.

Triple J’s Unearthed has opened the fifth National Indigenous Music Awards given unsigned and indie Indigenous acts the chance to perform at the 2016 NIMAs.

The third studio album for US singer Ariana Grande becomes her second consecutive No.1 album here, as “Dangerous Woman” this week takes the lead on the ARIA Albums Chart (and the UK also).

Still atop the chart podium pirouetting away for a fourth week is Drake and his “One Dance”, which is back at the top in the USA and spending a seventh week at the summit in the UK this week.

Beth Orton is our special guest at Noise11 iHeartRadio this week. Beth is now living in L.A. and is Hollywood inspired for her new album 'Kidsticks'.

The Monkees, Beth Orton, Flume, Fifth Harmony, Lacuna Coil, Winterbourne, Dierks Bentley, Catfish & the Bottlemen, and the Alice: Through the Looking Glass soundtrack lead this week's new music releases.

Tristan ‘Trizo’ Bouillaut, one time guitarist for Thousand Needles In Red, has developed the guitar tutorial app ‘Guitar Get Up’.

Adele is reportedly set to sign a $131 million (£90 million) record deal with Sony Music.

For only the third time during 2016, the No.1 album in the country is stable this week, with the Keith Urban set “Ripcord” maintaining its lead on the ARIA Albums Chart.

For a third week, Drake with Wizkid and Kyla are at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with “One Dance” (#4 DL/#1 Str), also spending a sixth week at No.1 in the UK this week too.

The 61st Ivor Novello Awards [The Ivors] were handed out in London this week with awards for Happy Mondays, Simple Minds and a Lifetime Achievement Award going to Damon Albarn.

Per from Roxette and Beth Orton join iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com this week.

Bob Dylan, Against the Current, Blake Shelton, Mudcrutch, Ariana Grande, Eric Clapton, Highasakite, Richard Ashcroft and Ziggy Marley lead the week's new music releases.

Ukraine has won the this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden and in Australia all eyes were on Dami Im.

Radiohead has gotten their sixth number 1 album in the U.K. and all without a CD or Vinyl.

Keith Urban lands his third No.1 album in Australia this week as his tenth studio album (ninth overseas) “Ripcord” debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart.

Drake holds for a second week atop the ARIA Singles Chart with his track “One Dance” (#3 DL/#1 Str), which is also spending its fifth week at No.1 in the UK and now just this past week attained the top spot on the US Billboard chart too.

Radiohead 'A Moon Shaped Pool' is the feature album this week at iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com.

Meghan Trainor, Kygo, 3OH!3, Kvelertak, Foy Vance, The Living End, Vera Blue, Paul Dempsey, Corrine Bailey Rae, and the ‘Angry Birds’ soundtrack lead the week's new releases.

As vinyl made way for CDs and CDs made way for downloads, it now seems that downloads are about to make way for streaming.

The Jazz Bell Awards nominee shortlist is here with Barney McAll up for four of the seven awards.

The Federal Governments #Catalyst funding program has bypassed Sounds Australia, the contemporary music organisation that acts as the facilitator for Australian artists between Australia and the international markets, throwing its work for artist into jeopardy.

The TV Week Logies Awards are more than an annual television industry piss-up. What the Logies manages to do every year is what the ARIA Awards fail to do … unite an industry.

For the twelfth week this year we have a new album debuting at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, and this is the fourth studio album and first No.1 for Drake with “Views” taking out the top spot here this week.

For only the second time this year an act occupies both the singles and albums No.1 spots this week, and that honor goes to Canadian rapper Drake, whose fourth album “Views” lands at the top, plus his new albums second single “One Dance” jumps up four places to take the summit on the ARIA Singles Chart this week.

It was a massive week in music news with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Radiohead both releasing new music. Hear the new songs this week at iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com.

British pop star Lily Allen is celebrating her 30th birthday by launching a new record label.

Death is undeniably the greatest promotional tool of the music industry as sales of Prince and Bowie attest.