Panic! At the Disco, Brothers3, Celtic Woman, Mystery Jets, Hank Williams Jr., Tim Hicks and The Wiz TV Soundtrack lead the week's new releases.

New Orleans bass legend Charlie Wooton will join the James Southwell Band this weekend to close the Thredbo Blues Festival.

The Cat Empire will release their seventh studio album ‘Rising With The Sun’ in March.

Courtney Barnett has a brand new song for 2016. ‘Three Packs A Day’ was slipped out this week for fans.

As the Red Hot Summer tour heats up for 2016 fans of the show now have an album to souvenir at the shows.

The Cult will release the tenth studio album of their 31 year recording career on February 5 with Hidden City.

Former My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero (Frnkiero) will come to Australia to perform free shows in Sydney and Melbourne as compensation for the collapse of Soundwave.

Adele ‘25’ is still selling in outstanding numbers with the title last week alone counting for 10% of all album sales in the Top 100.

Iggy Azalea published a brand new song on Saturday (9Jan16) and she has also promised fans even more fresh work is headed their way in February (16).

Kanye West struggled with technical issues on Friday (08Jan16) as he debuted a new song online, only to delete the link moments later due to bad sound quality.

Seven weeks and running for Adele as her third set “25” remains at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart again this week.

Justin Bieber scores his longest running No.1 single in Australia this week, as “Love Yourself” is atop the ARIA Singles chart for a fifth consecutive week.

Britain’s Will & The People had California their home for a few months in 2015 to work on new music for 2016.

Gurrumul has offered a sample of what to expect on his upcoming Electronica album ‘TRIBE2tribe’ with 'Warrk'.

iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com returns this week with tributes to Stevie Wright and Lemmy, new music from Bowie and an interview with Mak from Brothers 3.

Mavis Staples has recorded Nick Cave's 'Jesus Lay Down Beside Me' for her next album 'Livin' On A High Note'.

On February 26, the Estate of Michael Jackson and Sony Legacy Recordings will release exclusive CD/DVD and CD/Blu Ray editions of Michael Jackson's revolutionary 1979 recording, Off The Wall.

Less than a month after the release of the first two Phil Collins reissues on January 29 comes the second wave of two albums on February 26.

David Bowie 'Blackstar' leads the weeks new music releases.

As we approach the sixtieth anniversary of the release of Elvis Presley's debut album on March 23, 1956, RCA/Legacy has announced a new monster 62-CD box set comprised of the music released by Elvis Presley during his lifetime.

David Bowie has released his 25th studio album ‘Blackstar’ and launched the album with a video for ‘Lazarus’.

James Murphy has confirmed that there will be a new LCD Soundsystem album this year in an open letter to fans where he says “I write songs all the time.”

The new Elvis Costello concert film, Detour Live At Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on February 12 via Eagle Rock.

The new Flume album will be called ‘Skin’ and as a preview Harley Streten (aka Flume) is sharing the new music.

Gurrumul will perform at Australia’s largest free music festival, the St Kilda Festival, in February.

When Songs of Innocence came out in 2014, U2 promised a followup called, appropriately, Songs of Experience but, while we were given all sorts of "soon" indications for the release, it never turned up last year.

Adele ‘25’ is not showing any signs of slowing down as we hit the first week of 2016.

Bon Jovi returned to the studio where they made their first album ‘Runaway’ for their next album ‘This House Is Not For Sale’, due in March.

David Bowie’s 25th studio album ‘Blackstar’ will be the first major release of 2016.

Andrew Stockdale will attempt to resurrect the Wolfmother brand with a new album ‘Victorious’ in February.