As the SXSW music festival and conference draws closer for 2022 there will be a weekly update on acts added to the festival.

The short list for the 2022 APRA Song of the Year has been revealed. Here is every song nominated.

David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash have announced they have joined Neil Young in removing their music from Spotify.

The Living End reported for duty at One Electric Day in Werribee on Sunday afternoon.

The family of Glenn Wheatley, his wife Gaynor, son Tim and daughters Kara and Samantha, have released a statement following the sudden death of Glenn from complications from Covid.

Glenn Wheatley, the former bass player for the Masters Apprentices and who went on to direct the careers of Little River Band and John Farnham and run a media empire, has died at the age of 74.

The Jimmy Barnes Band switched guitarists last weekend for the Red Hot Summer (Bendigo) and One Electric Day (Werribee) events. Danny Spencer was tagged as a “close content” and had to isolate for the weekend. Lucky for Jimmy, his brother-in-law Diesel was just a phone call away.

With the passing last Friday of the artist Meat Loaf, his debut album "Bat Out of Hell" leaps from the lower depths of chart-hell (#336) to retake the No.1 spot in Australia after 43 1/2 years.

Nine-time Grammy Award winner, music legend Joni Mitchell has joined Neil Young in a major fuck you to Spotify.

Respected Australian music industry identity Stephen White, who for the past 45 years has been a driving force of the Australian music industry, is fed up with the Federal Government's disdain for the music industry and has spelt out his case in a magnificently worded letter to the Prime Minister and Federal Members.

The Americana Music Awards for the UK have been held.

Spotify has responded to Neil Young’s threat to withdraw from the streaming service his content down immediately.

The on again off again Good Times Festival has been officially cancelled for 2022.

SXSW have announced the third round of artists heading to showcase at the music festival and conference in Austin Texas in March.

One Electric Day is all set for Sunday at Werribee Park in Melbourne.

Blur frontman Damon Albarn has apologised to Taylor Swift for claiming she does not write her own songs.

Bob Dylan has sold his entire back catalogue of recorded music to Sony Music Entertainment.

Taylor Swift is stomping her feet and banging her fists over comments Damon Albarn made about her songwriting and she does have a point. Albarn’s comments are completely wrong.

When Covid sidelined the Jimmy Barnes’ Flesh and Blood’ tour before the ‘Flesh and Blood’ album was released, Jimmy missed the opportunity to give the songs their full force with a live band.

Sydney’s Twilight At Taronga live music events have been cancelled due to the current Omicron outbreak.

The Weeknd managed to hold onto the No.1 spot in Australia for a second week with "Dawn FM", his first #1 album to log a second week atop the ARIA Album Charts.

The Wombats reach Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart today with Fix Yourself, Not The World, marking their first chart-topping LP in the UK.

The Screen Music Awards will be announced in February with Custard’s David McCormack and singer songwriters Kate Miller-Heidke and Alex Lahey nominated for the 2021 awards.

The postponed Grammy Awards have been rescheduled to 3 April 2022 and will now be held in Las Vegas.

APRA AMCOS has welcomed the New South Wales Government's Event Saver Lifeline calling the initiative "an important first step".

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer tour is heading to the Hunter Valley and Central Coast in New South Wales this weekend after two successful days outside Melbourne tested new Covid regulations.

The first new No.1 Album for 2022 occurs this week as the fifth studio album for The Weeknd called "Dawn FM" becomes his fourth chart-topping album in Australia.

INXS ‘The Very Best’ and Cold Chisel ‘The Best of Cold Chisel: All For You’ both made ARIA’s Top 10 Australian Albums of 2021.

Very few artists “popped” into the ARIA Top 10 vinyl albums of 2021. The end of year chart features Nirvana with two places, Queen at no 5, and 40+ year old albums by Fleetwood Mac and Pink Floyd in the Top 10.

Peking Duk are just one of the acts introducing new Australian supergroup Thrillsong because hey, if Hillsong can perform to their cult then why should they?