Lorde has put plans for her long-awaited third studio album on hold following the death of her beloved dog, Pearl.

‘Ragtime’ is possibly the most confronting production The Production Company has ever presented.

Kanye West scores his third No.1 album in Australia this week as he debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart with his ninth album, this one a gospel set called "Jesus is King".

It's a massive fourteenth week at No.1 at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for Tones and I and her worldwide smash single "Dance Monkey", becoming the longest #1 for 2019 and the second longest for this entire decade.

Bidding for the signed Midnight Oil poster from Songland Records’ RSPCA auction has reached $1500.

Rage Against The Machine have confirmed that they will reform in 2020 for Coachella.

Creedence Clearwater Revival legend John Fogerty will dedicate the ‘Proud Mary – John Fogerty Container Home’ at Veterans Village in Las Vegas on 11 November. Fogerty funded the construction of the ‘Proud Mary’ container using the money he received from the cancelled Woodstock 50 event.

Iron Maiden will tour Australia in 2020. No dates have been set but a video at the Iron Maiden YouTube page reveals an Aussie tour is in the works.

Jimmy Barnes has announced that he will released a new live album called ‘Modus Operandi’ as a bonus disc with his current album ‘My Criminal Record’.

Michael Gudinski’s Mushroom Group has revealed an all-new structure to combine merged resources with partners Michael Chugg and AEG Presents.

American music industry analyst Bob Lefsetz will set down with Australian songwriting legend Paul Kelly and Big Day Out co-founder Ken West for his Podcast programs while he is in Australia next week for Australian Music Week.

Sydney 70’s rock act Finch will reunite for their first shows in nearly 40 years.

Major new titles coming this week from: Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne’s ELO, Miranda Lambert, The Damned (GH), Aled Jones & Russell Watson, Underworld, Hootie & the Blowfish, Archie Roach, The Seekers (Xmas), Jeff Goldblum, Fire from the Gods, Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird, Cold War Kids and the soundtrack for the Charlie’s Angels film.

The vintage Jaguar seen in the 2019 Whitesnake video for ‘Shut Up And Kiss Me’ is the same Jag from Whitesnake’s 1982 ‘Here I Go Again’ video.

A poster signed by the members of Midnight Oil is being auctioned to raise funds for the Weston RSPCA.

Cold Chisel’s new song ‘Getting The Band Back Together’ is a blues rocker with a Stones feel.

Ricky Martin and his husband are parents again.

Diddy has semi-retired from the music industry.

Liam Gallagher will be the first recipient of the MTV Rock Icon Award.

Melbourne’s Brunswick Music Festival has scored the revered Blind Boys of Alabama for 2020.

Chocolate Starfish singer Adam Thompson will tour his Queen tribute ‘Bohemian Rhapsody – Live In Concert’ around Australia in 2020.

Stone Temple Pilots gave fans a treat at their recent show in Las Vegas when Johnny Depp joined the band for the encore and performed two songs ‘Down’ and ‘Sex Type Thing’.

The Mi-Sex classic ‘Computer Games’ was released 40 years ago in September 1979. Mi-Sex will head to Melbourne in November to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the song that became their ‘Classic Hit’.

Soprano Mirusia will perform some solo Christmas dates to sing a few songs from her first ever Christmas album ‘Christmas Memories’.

The Reservoir Stomp is rolling around again in mid-November. It is the festival where anything can happen, like … when Wally Meanie and Murray Cook from The Wiggles performed an old Cowsills classic together.

Drew Lane’s adaptation of the 1984 movie ‘Electric Dreams’ will staged in Melbourne in November.

Tame Impala revealed last week that their highly anticipated fourth studio album - which is the follow-up to 2015 record ‘Currents' - will be called ‘The Slow Rush’, and have now confirmed the record will hit stores on Valentine’s Day (14.02.20) next year.

James Arthur - who won 'The X Factor' in 2012 - released his third record 'You' on October 18, and he admitted there was a conscious decision to focus his lyrics on his fans and friends instead.

Kelly Rowland says she has no plans to do a new track with her bandmates Beyoncé and Michelle Williams, but has confessed that if they were to do something, she wouldn't say anyway as she'd want it to be a "surprise".

Robbie Williams was too messed up to offer advice to Zayn Malik after reaching out when he quit One Direction.