Maynard James Keenan, of Tool, Puscifer and A Perfect Circle, will write a biweekly column for the Phoenix New Times.

Supergroup Atoms For Peace (Thom Yorke, Flea, Nigel Godrich) deliver a song and do a MoMA DJ set.

Art-noise legends Swans have added Melbourne and Sydney shows to their appearance at ATP.

It’s getting ridiculous. Due to demand, The Living End have added another two Melbourne shows to their mammoth retrospective tour.

UK folk stars Mumford & Sons deliver a live clip for ‘I Will Wait’ showcasing thousands upon thousands of fans.

Former Silverchair drummer Ben Gillies previews the first sounds from his new project Bento.

Grammy Award winning Norah Jones will tour Australia for the first seven years in February, 2013.

Promoters Paul Dainty and Vivian Lees have created a new joint venture called Two Worlds Touring.

Grammy Award winning Coldplay performed a 14-song set to close the 2012 Paralympics in Manchester. (September 8, 2012).

Sir Elton John has added a show for Melbourne on his upcoming Australian tour.

Five years after the legendary Led Zeppelin reunion concert in London comes speculation of live CD/DVD from the show.

Matchbox Twenty debut at No.1 with their fourth studio album “North” becoming their fourth of five charting albums to reach the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, plus it also achieves Gold sales status in its first week of release.

Guy Sebastian’s “Battle Scars” becomes his longest running No.1 single of his six chart-topping songs here by staying atop the ARIA Singles chart for a fourth week, plus it also picks up a double platinum certification in the process.

Lupe Fiasco has alerted fans via Twitter that he is quitting the music business.

Former Bad English and The Babys frontman John Waite is heading to Australia for the very first time.

It is not unusual for an artist to ask a political candidate, usually of the opposite persuasion from their personal beliefs, to stop playing their recordings during a campaign. R.E.M. has gone a step further and demanded that the Fox News Network stop playing Losing My Religion on their network.

Music fans all over the world will be able to watch Grulkefest streamed live when SXSW pay tribute to the late Brent Grulke on Saturday night (September 8, 2012) from 6pm.

Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne will head to Tasmania to headline the Mona Foma Festival in Hobart in January.

Less than ten days out from their Australian tour, LA electro hip-hop crew Far East Movement cancel.

The premier Morrissey fansite has posted up three New Zealand and Australian tourdates for the dour one.

Australia’s Alpine has scored an American deal with Votiv Records for the release of their debut album ‘A Is For Alpine’.

Kanye’s new tunes keep coming with the big, bumping ‘Clique’ featuring verses from Jay-Z and Big Sean.

Nu-metal gods Linkin Park book two huge side shows with Stone Sour to accompany their Soundwave sets.

St. Jerome’s Laneway Fest has plugged in the dates for next year’s indie extravaganza and hinted at the line-up.

Tom DeLonge of Blink-182 and his supergroup Angels & Airwaves plan a quadruple-vinyl release of their Love epics.

Irish pop-rockers The Script will appear in Sydney for a single show later in the month.

Folk icon Bob Dylan’s 35th album, and The Presets’ third, kick off a solid week in new releases.

Revived ska-pop hitmakers No Doubt are previewing all the tracks from their comeback album online.

Idol ocker Shannon Noll has augmented his 40-date national tour with another eight shows.

Melbourne community radio announcer Genevieve Blackmore has lost her battle with breast cancer yesterday (September 5).