Paul Cashmere

Christina Aguilera’s landmark double album Back To Basics turns 20, celebrating an ambitious release that topped charts around the world, won Grammy honours and remains one of the defining records of her career.

Linda Ronstadt’s landmark 1976 album Hasten Down The Wind reaches its 50th anniversary, celebrating the Grammy-winning record that became her third consecutive million-selling album.

Micky Dolenz has released the new Waiting For The Day video, written by Vicki Peterson of The Bangles, ahead of his Timeless EP, due September 4.

Grammy-winning British musician and producer William Orbit, best known for his work with Madonna on Ray Of Light, has died aged 69.

Bill Armstrong AM, the pioneering Australian recording engineer, studio owner and broadcaster who founded Armstrong Studios and helped establish EON-FM, has died aged 97.

Neil Young will release Second Song with The Chrome Hearts on September 18, combining newly recorded material with songs he wrote in the 1960s.

The Avalanches will release their fourth album No Bad Memories on October 16, 2026, with new single Can’t Get Over Losing You featuring Portraits of Tracy.

Green Day’s Nimrods brings a fictional teenage punk band to the big screen with a 30-track soundtrack featuring Green Day classics, live recordings and new music.

Ella Hooper has unveiled the new single When The Shit Went Down, announced her upcoming album Overnight Success and confirmed a national Australian tour beginning in October.

Seattle garage rock band The Darts (US) will support The Damned at the Brisbane and Melbourne dates of the British punk legends’ September 2026 Australian tour.

The New Christs have been announced as the support act for The Damned’s Melbourne concert on the Final Damnation Tour at The Forum in September 2026.

DMA’S have announced Automatic, Floodlights and Sleepazoid as special guests for their Australian Tour 2026, with each concert featuring two headline sets including a celebration of the 10th anniversary of Hills End.

Split Chain have released two collaborative tracks featuring Postdrome and Commoner ahead of the September 11 release of motionblur [DELUXE] through Epitaph Records.

Rick Price has announced a national Australian tour celebrating his new single Call On Me from the Hometown album, with dates beginning in September.

Joan Jett has cancelled two September performances after surgery for a fractured vertebra, while the 45th anniversary edition of I Love Rock ‘N Roll remains on schedule for release later this month.

Weezer revisit their Blue Album legacy in the new ‘C.E.O.’ video, featuring Tony Hawk, Michael Peña, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and more ahead of The Gold Album.

Perth’s Benny J Ward returns with the new single ‘Fear Of Going Out’ and confirms October Melbourne performances with his all-star live band Benny J & The Psych Ward.

Australia’s only Beatles festival returns to Bathurst from 20 to 23 August with more than 50 events across four days and extra tickets released for two previously sold out performances.

MaRLo celebrates the 10th anniversary of Altitude with the biggest event in the festival’s history, including a world exclusive performance with Will Sparks at Flemington Racecourse.

Shonen Knife will return to Australia this October following the release of Let’s Knife: Re-Cut, a newly recorded version of the landmark album that helped launch the Japanese band’s international career.

Yngwie Malmsteen has announced his new studio album Hell Or High Water, due on 13 November, and released the first single ‘Now Or Never’.

Jimmy Barnes will headline Sounds By The River 2027 at Mannum Golf Club, joined by Jon Stevens, Birds Of Tokyo, Eskimo Joe, Baby Animals, Chocolate Starfish and Sarah McLeod.

Six60 will return to Melbourne this November for a headline performance at Live At The Gardens, with South Summit joining the bill at the Royal Botanic Gardens.

Dolly Parton’s All I Can Do turns 50, marking the final chapter of her creative partnership with Porter Wagoner and the album that paved the way for Here You Come Again.

Bono, Eddie Vedder, Hozier, The Edge and many of Glen Hansard’s closest collaborators gathered in Dublin for an emotional musical farewell to the Oscar-winning songwriter.

Elvis Costello has announced a sprawling five-disc box set celebrating the forty-ninth anniversary of his debut album, My Aim Is True, due out October 2.

Trashcan Sinatras guitarist, vocalist and songwriter John Douglas has died aged 63 following a brief illness, just four days after the band’s first studio album in a decade, Ever The Optimist.

Public Works have released ‘Sunburn’, the first single following the New Jersey band’s signing with Hopeless Records. Jacob Dietrich reveals how the song unexpectedly became a reflection on a relationship that ended during its creation.

Ann Wilson will perform four Australian shows in November with Tripsitter, her first solo tour of the country. Dragon support the Gold Coast, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney dates ahead of Carreras & Friends in Brisbane.

ZZ Top have cancelled their Hollywood Bowl concert with Cheap Trick because of unforeseen personnel matters. The tour is currently expected to resume in Fresno on 7 August.