Juan De Marcos, the founder of the Buena Vista Social Club and now fronting Afro Cuban All Stars, says that the US-Cuba relationship fixed by Obama has been undone by Trump but doesn’t see Trump surviving the next election.

Bohemian Rhapsody has set a new box office record as the highest-grossing music biopic in global history after rocking past the $600 million (£477 million) mark.

Rapper Pitbull is making the expansion of his educational endeavours his New Year's resolution, pledging to teach 20,000 students in his schools by the close of 2019.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to control Rap music in Russia because he is worried about “the degradation of a nation”.

Prosecutors in Spain have filed tax evasion charges against pop superstar Shakira.

Paul McCartney's London home was raided by thieves days before his recent homecoming gig in Liverpool, England.

The R. Kelly Australian tour announcement just got weirder with the disgraced R&B star calling out the announcement with a “Fake Tour Alert”.

The year of 2018 has been topped and tailed by long running soundtracks, "A Star is Born" now racks up its eighth week at the top, matching the eight-week-stay achieved by "The Greatest Showman" in January and February.

It's a fifth week at the summit of the ARIA Singles Chart for the Ariana Grande track "thank u, next", which also lands a fifth week at the top in New Zealand and Canada, a sixth week in both Ireland and England and it returns for a fourth week at No.1 in America.

Accused sexual predator R. Kelly is scheduled to tour Australia in 2019 but it is unclear if he has been granted a Visa.

Melbourne’s The Production Company will stage the first Australian production of David Bowie’s musical ‘Lazarus’ in 2019.

The next round of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers has been revealed with The Cure, Radiohead and Def Leppard to be inducted alongside Stevie Nicks and Janet Jackson, Roxy Music and The Zombies.

Major new titles coming this week from: Bruce Springsteen, Evanescence (live), Mitchell Tenpenny, Kodak Black, Zayn, Alan Walker, XXXTentacion, Wild Summer 2019 compilation and the soundtrack for Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse.

Ariana Grande and her brother Frankie Grande have recorded a version of ‘Seasons of Love’ for the Rent Live TV special.

Tommy Lee and his son Brandon have repaired their relationship following a very public bust-up earlier this year (18).

Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson have invited Sean Lennon to join them on U.S. TV for a performance of his dad's holiday peace anthem Happy Xmas (War Is Over).

Kanye West has fired up his feud with rap rival Drake after learning the Canadian star had asked to use a sample of his 2009 song Say What's Real.

Toto legend Steve Lukather has a list with dozens of credits including Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Paul McCartney, Steely Dan but he says he has only walked out of a session once and it was for Richard Simmons.

The Blackeyed Susans will reunite this weekend for three Christmas shows.

PNAU have made a 15 minute short film called ‘Luminous’.

Paul Kelly has debuted his video for ‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion’.

David Byrne has anointed his new live EP ‘The Best Live Show of All Time’ after a quote he got from a NME review.

Malcolm Young will be honored with the second annual ‘Malcolm Young Tribute’ in Melbourne in February.

Star Australian soprano Mirusia will mark the 50th anniversary of The Seekers with a magnificent tribute ‘A Salute to the Seekers’ coming via Robert Rigby’s Ambition Entertainment in 2019.

Liam Payne's fans around the world will be able to watch his London concert live via virtual reality headsets on 19 December (18).

Nick Barker continues to focus on tracks from 2017’s The Heartache State ‘Last of the Buffalo’ album. The latest is the video for ‘Airstrike’.

NEW YORK, NY — 12 December, 2018 — New York City — Mr. Nick Kontonicolas, COO of The Noise Network (USA) has confirmed awarded China and America based television presenter and blogger Ms. Wei Wei Gao will JV her MGM International Media Inc company with The Noise Network to work on The Noise Network’s China Music Export Initiative for 2019.

Melbourne’s own Vika & Linda Bull will give Melbourne a very Melbourne new year when they perform at MEMO Music Hall on New Years Eve.

Angus Young can finally be toyed with when his Funko figure is released in January.

UK metal band Haken will tour Australia in 2019 for David Roy Williams.