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.

Adele and her mega third album “25” stay atop the ARIA Albums Chart for a sixth straight week, also becoming the first No.1 album for 2016.

The first ARIA Chart for 2016 has Justin Bieber holding for a fourth straight week with “Love Yourself”, which matches the four week’s his previous No.1 “What Do You Mean” (TW-9) achieved back in September of 2015.

James Southwell has released ‘Walkin’ Now’, a stunning new blues song 2016, and just check out the band.

‘Red Dirt Red Heart’, the third part of the Russell Morris blues trilogy, has spent seven of the last nine weeks at the top of ARIA Blues and Jazz Chart and ends the year as Australia’s no 1 blues album of 2015.

Radiohead were asked to write and record a theme for the new James Bond movie Spectre but the producer’s of the movie rejected it, instead going with Sam Smith.

Adele remains at the top of the ARIA Albums chart for a fifth straight week with “25”, but the first week without a new certification, although with it being Christmas week, not everything is back on track and I’m sure we will see a new certification in the new year.

Justin Bieber remains at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a third week with “Love Yourself”, but he also moves back up to No.2 with “Sorry” which has already notched up four weeks at that position, after which it spent four more weeks at No.3, and now this week it racks up a fifth week in the second position.

Lauryn Hill has joined Green Day in quietly slipping out a Christmas song.

The Beatles not only moved into the world of streaming as of midnight Christmas Eve, but their albums are now available from all download services.

Happy Holidays from Green Day. The band has released a brand new song for Christmas called 'Xmas Time of the Year'.

There are no major releases until the second week of January 2016 for now, but a few digital compilations and a few tracks for this and next weeks releases.

2015 was by far the year of Adele but it was also a great year for Australian acts Cold Chisel, Parkway Drive, Tame Impala, 5 Seconds of Summer and Hermitude.

The Beatles catalogue is now streaming.

Paul Carrack have a new solo album, Soul Shadows, in January.

Racking up her fourth week at the top of the ARIA Albums chart is Adele with her “25” set, which each week has seen a new sales certification, and this week is no different, as the album is now 7x▲Platinum in sales.

Justin Bieber continues to fulfil his chart comeback by remaining at the top of the ARIA Singles chart for a second week, as his track “Love Yourself” racks up another week at No.1.

Trent Reznor announced on Twitter Friday he and his bandmates are planning on releasing a new Nine Inch Nails album.

It has been fifteen years since the Violent Femmes last released an album, Freak Magnet.

This is yet another Edsel re-issue (the third, in fact) of the 8 CDs featuring Marc Bolan’s home demos, alternate takes, unused and abandoned songs, as well as unfinished recordings. This time we are presented with a limited edition 12” x 12” bound book set. Sounds great – but is it worth the hype?

David Bowie has released the second track from his upcoming album, Blackstar.

Jess & Matt (XF), Pnatera box-set, Baroness and the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens & Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight soundtrack lead the pre-Christmas new releases.

David Bowie’s new single Lazarus taken from the album ★ (pronounced Blackstar) will be released digitally on December 18 and will receive its world premiere on BBC 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq show on the 17.

Coldplay ‘A Head Full Of Dreams’ sold 20,124 copies in its first week on sale in Australia making it the fourth fastest selling album of 2015.

Adele has clocked up around 250,000 sales in Australia for her ‘25’ album making it the fastest selling album of 2016 by far.