Florence + The Machine’s second album debuts at number one on this week’s ARIA chart wrap.

The Lennon & McCartney of Australian music festivals Vivian Lees and Ken West have split.

Joy of joys, Coldplay’s new album knocks Adele off the top in this week’s ARIA Chart wrap.

Legendary DJ Jim Ladd, the subject of Tom Petty’s ‘The Last DJ’, has been dumped by Los Angeles radio station KLOS.

Coldplay will easily have the number one album in America next week with ‘Xylo Myloto’.

Casting Crown, a band of Baptist Ministers, have knocked Adele from the number one spot on the US album chart this week.

The Face The Music conference in Melbourne next month will feature musicians offering first hand advice for industry newbies.

Adele’s reign goes on, but the top twenty got a shake up on this week’s ARIA chart.

Michael Gudinski, Mushroom Records founder and now Chairman of the Mushroom Group of Companies, has joined the board of MCM Entertainment Group Limited (MEG).

From October 31, The 7PM Project will be known as The Project and move to 6.30pm on Network Ten. Oh, and yeah, George Negus’s ‘6.30’ has been axed.

Adele holds off strong showings from Chris Isaak and Evanescence on this week’s chart wrap.

Sydney quartet The Jezabels scored two awards at the Jagermeister Independent Music Awards last night.

Icehouse will perform in a small, intimate environment for the Entertainment Assist gala variety dinner fund-raiser ‘Gotta Have Heart’ on October 28.

Gotye, Boy & Bear and Drapht have picked up seven nominations each for the 2011 ARIA Awards.

Village Sounds and The Atlas Agency, two of Australia’s biggest music agencies, have merged. The combined company will be known as Village Sounds.

Neither rapper 360, country superstar Lee Kernaghan, nor John Farnham can knock Adele off the top of this week’s chart.

Sony has shut down three of its biggest labels Arista, Jive and J Records and moved the artists to the RCA Records label.

Samsung will launch Music Hub, the latest subscription music service to hit Australia, on October 17 on the Samsung Galaxy S II.

Apple founder Steve Jobs has died at the age of 56. Jobs death was reported moments ago by Associated Press.

Powderfinger guitarist and producer Darren Middleton has joined the fold at Chris Cheney’s Red Door Sounds studio.

Adele still reigns supreme on the charts but twelve new entries break into the top 25 in this week’s chart.

After hanging up his headphones at Nova, Sydney Merrick Watts has jumped ship to opposition station Triple M replacing Roy and HG.

At this year’s Face The Music conference in Melbourne, I will be hosting the keynote address with international guest Brent Grulke, the creative director of SXSW.

Sydney quartet The Jezabels run right up to Adele in this week’s ARIA Chart wrap.

Congrats to indie band The Jezabels who have debuted at no. 2 on the ARIA chart with their debut album ‘Prisoner’.

After 60 years and more than 70 albums, Tony Bennett is poised to have his first number 1 album. According to Hits Daily Double, Duets II will sell between 160 and 170,000 copies outdistancing Lady Antebellum who will move 140 to 150,000 copies of their album which is in its second week of release.

The Universal Music Group is planning on increasing music sales the good old-fashioned way … by advertising. 

Baron Wolman, the original music photographer for Rolling Stone magazine, will be at The Raw Gallery in South Melbourne for the start of his Every Picture Tells A Story exhibition.

Queensland band The Amity Affliction will be released worldwide through Roadrunner Records.

The world’s largest record company has joined forces with the world’s biggest touring and management company. Live Nation and Universal Music have done a deal.