Metallica has reactivated for 2013 after having played their first show of 2013 in Brisbane for Soundwave on Saturday night.

Aerosmith will appear on 60 Minutes tomorrow night (February 24) to announce their first Australian tour since 1990 but why wait when you can have the dates right now.

Soundwave promoter and Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker have made peace with each other after a Twitter war flare-up that saw AJ accuse Barker of extorting $1.5 million.

The upcoming Australian dates for former Rolling Stone Mike Taylor have been upgraded from ‘postponed’ to cancelled’.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse supports have been announced for the Australian tour.

Carlos Santana has confirmed he is putting the original Santana band together for his next album.

Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo has been fired from the band on the eve of the Australian tour for Soundwave.

Mick Taylor is no longer coming to Australia in April. Scottish dates are also on hold.

The Tea Party will be back in Australia for some intimate gigs in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in March.

Aerosmith’s long overdue Australian tour is expected to be announced over the coming week.

Guns n Roses, The Cult, Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum has revealed Kings of Chaos is his new band and will make their live debut in Sydney, Australia for the Stone Music Festival.

Blink 182 returned to active duty last night (February 20, 2013) after performing their first show of 2013 in Sydney.

What was Michael Gudinski going to do to top bringing out Bruce Springsteen? The only bigger name he could sign would be Jesus Christ and that's exactly what Gudinski has done.

Sydney’s inaugural Stone Music Festival has added Icehouse and Guy Sebastian but subtract Baby Animals.

Journey guitarist Neal Schon could be back working with Santana again. He says he is talking to Carlos about a new music project.

War Child and O2 hosted a sold-out gig at O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire yesterday with over 2000 British music fans enjoying an intimate gig headlined by Muse and supported by The Vaccines.

Kraftwerk will perform eight of their albums for Sydney's Vivid Live in May.

Six Feet Under are no longer coming to Australia for Soundwave.

A Carole King live show is nothing but music. There was no flash set, loud costumes or special effects. This was Carole King, music and a A-list band including Danny Kortchmar, Russ Kunkel and Bob Glaub.

L.A. band Illumination Road will make their live concert debut at the Stone Music Festival on the other side of the planet in Sydney in April.

Irish singer songwriter Mary Coughlan will return to Australia for dates in March.

Rapper A$AP Rocky will play dates in Australia in June.

Ringo Starr was back on stage at Festival Hall, Melbourne last night for the first time since June 17, 1964. However, the famed Beatles drummer wasn’t there to reminisce.

Van Halen and Billy Joel will headline the new Stone Music Festival in Sydney in April.

Sir Cliff Richard is heading to Nashville in April to record an album of classic rock and roll songs and he is singing a lot of those songs on his current Australia tour.

Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, Billy Bragg and The Zombies are just some of the artists to perform at Austin record store Waterloo Records during SXSW.

Aidan Roberts and Daniel Holdsworth’s rendition of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells ‘For Two)’ is one of the most stunning musical performances I have witnessed in years.

Pink’s world tour is officially underway after firing up for Phoenix, Arizona this week.

Ringo Starr performed his first two shows ever in Sydney this week with his All-Starr Band.

Stereophonics will return to Australia in April hot on the release of their next album ‘Graffiti on the Train’.