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Gotye: Photo by Gerry Nicholls, Noise11, photo
Gotye Ends Year With Biggest Selling Single In America

Gotye has become the first Australian artist in thirty years to land the No.1 song of the year on the US Billboard charts.

December 17, 2012
Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor Plays Melbourne REVIEW

On Friday the 14th of December Regina Spektor left an adoring crowd absolutely lost for words after blowing them away with two or so hours of her beautiful folky yet classical music.

December 17, 2012
The Rolling Stones with Lady Gaga
Mick Jagger Dedicates Wild Horses To Connecticut Gun Victims

Mick Jagger has dedicated the Rolling Stones ‘Wild Horses’ to the victims of the shooting yesterday in Connecticut.

December 16, 2012
Ringo Starr All Starr Band
Steve Lukather Looks Forward To His Summer Vacation With Ringo Starr

When Toto’s Steve Lukather returns to Australia with Ringo Starr in February, he is seeing it more like a summer vacation that work.

December 16, 2012
Southern Cross Austereo
Jacintha Saldanha Left Suicide Note For 2DAY Presenters, Daily Mail Claims

The Daily Mail has published an explosive article today which claims that one of the 2DAY FM prank DJs did get back to nurse Jacintha Saldanha to tell her their prank call was going to air and that her note blamed them for her death.

December 16, 2012
The Flaming Lips - Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo
The Flaming Lips Preview Freak Night Documentary

The Flaming Lips have released a trailer for their Freak Night documentary.

December 16, 2012
G. Love's Special Sauce
G. Love Really Now Does A Special Sauce

G. Love really does have a special sauce. It is a hot sauce.

December 16, 2012
JR Reyne
Australia’s J.R. Reyne Covers No Expectations For Rolling Stones Tribute

J.R. Reyne has is the Australian representative on a new Rolling Stones covers album ‘Painted Black’.

December 16, 2012
Rick Springfield, photo Ros O'Gorman, Noise11
Rick Springfield Fronts Foo Fighters For Dave Grohl Sound City Soundtrack

Just days after Paul McCartney and Nirvana teamed up we learn that Rick Springfield will soon be heard out front of Foo Fighters.

December 16, 2012
Michael Buble Christmas
Michael Buble Christmas Is Australia’s Biggest Selling Album

It’s beginning to look a lot like a Michael Buble “Christmas” again this year, as his 2011 No.1 album is at the top again this week.

December 16, 2012
Macklemore, music news, noise11
Macklemore And Ryan Lewis Spend Third Week Atop ARIA Chart

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis stay atop the ARIA Singles chart for a third week in their “Thrift Shop”, and they are joined within the Top 50 by his next single here “Same Love”, which is twenty places to No.45, with further success for his album too, “The Heist” which jumps up thirteen places to No.17 this week.

December 16, 2012
The Rolling Stones with Lady Gaga
PHOTO: The Rolling Stones Rehearse With Lady Gaga

The Rolling Stones will perform their final 50 and Counting show in New Jersey tomorrow and today were in rehearsal with special guest Lady Gaga.

December 15, 2012
The Pretty Things, Phil May: Photo Ros O'Gorman
The Pretty Things Secret Gig At The Old Bar Tonight

Noise11 hears that The Pretty Things will perform one more time and one last time for Australia at The Old Bar in Melbourne tonight. The show will be a benefit for Norton Records.

December 15, 2012
Rufus Wainwright - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Grammy.com Presents Rufus Wainwright In Noise11’s Word Up From Down Under

Singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright features in the latest Word Up From Down Under series from Noise11 at Grammy.com.

December 15, 2012
The Lone Ranger
Hi Ho Silver, Jack White Is Out Of The Lone Ranger

Jack White will no longer compose the soundtrack for The Lone Ranger.

December 15, 2012
Scott Dorsey, EH Manager and Exec Prod, Elton, Engelbert, Graham Stokes, Conehead Records and Dan Wilson, producer of vocal tracks, Noise11, Photo
Engelbert Humperdinck To Record With Seal

Seal and Engelbert Humperdinck will team up for a duet, Noise11 can be revealed.

December 15, 2012
Deep Purple
Deep Purple Confirms New Studio Album For 2013

Eight years after the release of Rapture Of The Deep, Deep Purple have confirmed the release next year of a new album completely made of new studio material.

December 15, 2012
The Rolling Stones, Noise11, Photo
The Rolling Stones Are Taking Requests For Next Show

The Rolling Stones have started a poll to let fans select a song for their next setlist.

December 14, 2012
The Rolling Stones at The Marquee, noise11.com, photo
The Rolling Stones Play Newark And Shake Up The Setlist

The Rolling Stones shook the setlist up for their second US show this week. Chuck Berry’s ‘Around And Around’, recorded by The Stones in 1964 even made the list.

December 14, 2012
Justin Bieber
Plot To Kill Justin Bieber Thwarted

Justin Bieber was targeted in a murder plot by a convicted killer in New Mexico, according to a local report.

December 14, 2012
Jennifer Lopez: Photo By Mary Boukouvalas
Jennifer Lopez Sued By Man Who Appeared On Her Reality Show

Jennifer Lopez is being sued by a Louisiana man featured on her US reality television show Big Easy Justice.

December 14, 2012
John Mayer - Photo By Ros O'Gorman, noise11, Photo
Katy Perry And John Mayer Go Public With Romance

Katy Perry and John Mayer have gone public with their romance.

December 14, 2012
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas To Play Two London Dates

Find someone who claims to have never heard 'Dancing in the Street' and you are either being lied to or talking to someone who grew up in a monastery where only bell chiming and monastic chanting were deemed musically acceptable.

December 14, 2012
Taylor Swift Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo
Taylor Visits Harry’s Hometown In Northern England

Taylor Swift had a wonderful time in Northern England with One Direction's Harry Styles.

December 14, 2012
Morrissey. images by Ros O'Gorman
Morrissey Blames Royal Family For Nurse Death

Morrissey has once again shown he has little good to say about the British royal family, stating that they are the ones responsible for the suicide of a nurse at the hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was a patient.

December 14, 2012
Courtney Love - Photo by Ros O'Gorman.
Courtney Love Not Happy With Nirvana McCartney Jam

Courtney Love wasn't thrilled about Sir Paul McCartney performing with the surviving members of Nirvana.

December 14, 2012
Bruce Springsteen - image by Ros O'Gorman, noise11.com, photos
Bruce Springsteen Adds Third Melbourne Show

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band will play a third and final Melbourne show on March 27.

December 14, 2012
Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones images by Ros O'Gorman, noise11.com, photo
Keith Says Florence ‘Moves Like Jagger’

Keith Richards thinks Florence Welch has 'moves' as good as Sir Mick Jagger's.

December 14, 2012
The Rolling Stones at The Marquee, noise11.com, photo
John Mayer To Join The Rolling Stones In New Jersey

John Mayer will be the special guest of The Rolling Stones tonight (December 13) in New Jersey.

December 14, 2012
Rihanna, Photo Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo
Tweet Suggests Rihanna And Chris Brown Break Up

Rihanna has sparked rumours her romance with Chris Brown is over for good after issuing a warning to fans about deceptive men.

December 14, 2012