Chris Lighty, manager of Diddy, Mariah Carey, Ja Rule and 50 Cent, shot himself dead in the street outside his Bronx apartment on Thursday (August 30, 2012).

SXSW will present Grulkefest, an event to honor SXSW director Brent Grulke who passed away in Austin two weeks ago.

Members of AC/DC, The Angels, The Choirboys and Rose Tattoo formed a supergroup on the back of a flatbed truck in Sydney yesterday to send a message to the Commonwealth Bank. “Am I ever going to bank with the Commonwealth again/no way, get fucked, fuck off”.

The Soundtrack to the film “The Sapphires” stays at No.1 for a second week, whilst it was also again at No.2 for a second week on the Australian Box Office report, only dropping 17% from the previous weeks box office receipts (most second week films drop dramatically, so 17% is a good thing).

Guy Sebastian stays at No.1 for a second week with his sixth chart-topping single “Battle Scars”, picking up a Gold sales certification and it becomes his third consecutive two-week-running No.1 track, as “Like it Like That” (Sept 2009) and “Who’s That Girl” (Dec 2011) both spent two weeks at the top.

Samsung has been ordered to pay Apple $1 billion after a landmark trial has found that Samsung infringed on Apple’s copyright in making smartphone.

Network Ten has announced the departure of Chief Programming Officer David Mott.

Mia Dyson is a last minute addition to the BigSound music conference and festival.

Iconic Australian music retailer Billy Hyde and Allans has been placed into receivership.

Jason Derulo and Kelly Rowland are suddenly out of work today after Channel Ten axed its big budget reality show dance contest Everybody Dance Now.

Guy Sebastian scores his sixth No.1 single in Australia by debuting at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with his new track “Battle Scars”. He now sits in third position on the list of ‘Aussie’s with the Most No.1’s’ behind Delta Goodrem with eight and Kylie Minogue with ten.

The new Australian feature film “The Sapphires” debuted at No.2 on the box-office report last week (with $2.475 million behind Dark Knight Rises’ $2.9 million), and this week on the ARIA Albums Chart, the soundtrack jumps up to No.1 becoming the first film soundtrack to make it to No.1 this decade, and the first locally produced soundtrack in over eleven years to claim a No.1 spot.

It’s a bumper week, with everyone from Bloc Party to Ricki-Lee to Yeasayer to The Wiggles releasing new albums.

Songs performed and played at the Olympic Closing Ceremony yesterday are dominating the UK iTunes chart today (August 14).

There is sad news for the music industry to report this morning. Brent Grulke, the creative director of SXSW, has died at the age of 52.

The first details for the 2012 Jagermeister Independent Music Awards have been announced.

The Medics, Gurrumul and Jimmy Little were all honoured last night (August 11) at the National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAS) in Darwin.

Ed Sheeran’s “+” (plus and/or positive) jumps up two places to land at No.1 after forty-six weeks within the Top 100, becoming the equal-fifth longest climb to No.1 in ARIA Chart history (1983 to 2012). The album originally debuted at No.1 in the UK last September, but did take 39 weeks to climb to the top in Ireland, where it went back to No.1 this week.

“Boom Boom” for local dance troupe Justice Crew holds at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart for a second week, in fact the entire top three from last week stay put this week, Maroon 5’s “One More Night” equaling the two-weeks-at-No.2 “Payphone” (TW-19) achieved back in June, whilst former No.1 “Some Nights” for fun. holds at No.3 after its two weeks at the top.

‘Call Me Baby’ by Carly Rae Jepsen has just overtaken Gotye ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ as the longest running number one song of 2012 on the Billboard chart.

The Rubens have joined the Umbrella Management roster for Australia and New Zealand.

National concerts by Prince, Roger Waters, Foo Fighters and Sade have been short-listed for a Helpmann Award.

Melbourne indie record store institution Polyester Records launches a new vinyl label.

Musexpo 2013 will take place in Los Angeles from May 5. Here is the official announcement:

Paul Dainty has announced the appointment of Craig Hartenstine and Ben Shepherd to the Dainty Group.

Karise Eden’s “My Journey” spends its sixth straight week at No.1 on the ARIA Albums chart, and also picks up a second Platinum sales certification. That album now becomes the longest continuous chart run this year (Adele has had two runs of four week’s, and a total of nine weeks at No.1 this year), and the longest run at the top since Adele’s eight week stretch from last September.

Justice Crew become the first Australian group to hit No.1 in over five years, as their fourth single “Boom Boom” climbs to No.1 this week and lands a Platinum sales certification too.

Students from Collarts, the Australian College of the Arts, have two nights locked in to perform their group and solo showcase ‘Collaboration’.

Guitar Hero-style game, Rocksmith, actually teaches you how to play guitar and will launch in Australia next month.

Melbourne rock band Zoophyte has signed with Mushroom Publishing.