Ben Abraham of Melbourne, The Gooch Palms from Newcastle, Hockey Dad of Wollongong, Nite Fields of Brisbane, Oh Pep! From Melbourne and Sui Zhen from Melbourne will showcase at SXSW 2016.

The legendary Dion DiMucci will be a keynote speaker at SXSW 2016.

The owners of The Bataclan, the Paris music venue were terrorists attacked the audience during the Eagles of Death Metal concert on Friday, have urged people to stay away from the venue for the time being.

Son Little will head out around the USA with Leon Bridges for dates in March 2016.

Chris Paine of Killing Time/Mantissa has died in Melbourne.

One Direction were apparently scared they'd look tame if they appeared on a chat show with Grace Jones.

On Monday, President Barack Obama named seventeen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom including Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Itzhak Pearlman and Stephen Sondheim.

Loretta Lynn is the recipient of the inaugural Women in Music “Legend” award.

Adele premieres a live clip of “When We Were Young,” a new song from her forthcoming album 25.

Mariah Carey is insistent she has yet to move in with her billionaire boyfriend James Packer.

Eagles of Death Metal, the band who was playing at Le Betaclan when the terrorist attack started, have suspended their tour, in effect cancelling all further dates.

Alice Cooper’s 1973 album ‘Muscle of Love’ is about to get an audio upgrade.

Art Vs Science have scheduled an East Coast Australian tour for March 2015.

Duane McDonald’s Sounds By The River, a part of Regional Touring's upcoming Red Hot Summer roster of music events, has won a South Australian Tourism Award for Best Festivals and Events.

Pennsylvania’s Dr Dog have a new song ‘Badvertise’ with its own music infotainment-like music video.

Songwriter P.F. Sloan has died in his Los Angeles home at age 70. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer for a number of months.

The Cure are on their way to these shores again for a 27-date North American tour that will include three nights at the Hollywood Bowl and three at Madison Square Garden.

Ben Harper will return to Australia with The Innocent Criminals in 2016.

Lorde has laughed off claims she didn't sing live on a TV show, calling them a compliment.

Both Little Anthony and George Benson have been recording for over fifty years.

Dixie Chicks have been on a semi-hiatus for almost a decade.

Björk's eighth studio album Vulnicura is Rough Trade's Album of the Year, the record store and indie label has announced.

One Direction star Liam Payne paid six figures to become the owner of a flying car featured in 2002 film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

James have announced that their new album Girl At The End Of The World will be released on 18th March 2016 plus there is a major headline tour for 2016.

Motorhead postponed their Sunday night show in Paris on the weekend after French police ordered the shut-down.

Kylie Minogue has teamed up with talk-show host James Corden for a Christmas-tinged cover of the Yazoo classic ‘Only You’.

Monique DiMattina’s Melbourne showcase for ‘Everybody Loves Somebody’ has been delayed until February.

Rancid will release a 20th anniversary edition of their punk classic ‘…And Out Come The Wolves’.

Russell Morris has a hometown date set to showcase the ‘Red Dirt Red Heart’ album, the third part of his blues trilogy.

Australian country star Imogen Clark has signed with prestigious alt-Country label Lost Highway for the release of her debut album in 2016.