Producer and manager Sandy Pearlman, who worked with artists like Blue Oyster Cult, the Clash and the Dictators, has died in the aftermath of a cerebral hemorrhage that he suffered in December. He was 72.

John Oliver did a lengthy bit of his show on HBO last night on the use of popular music by politicians, highlighting not only the numerous complaints over the last week, but also historical incidents such as Ronald Reagan's use of Bruce Springsteen's rather non-patriotic Born in the USA.

The Production Company will deliver its 50th show this season and Saturday night saw a spectacular launch of the 2016 season with ‘Funny Girl’. More on that in a moment.

The Cure’s Australian tour is underway with their first stadium show at Sydney’s Qudos Arena on Monday night.

Prince has won the Helpmann Award for Best International Contemporary Concert handed out in Sydney on Monday night.

Chuck D, Terminator X, Flavor Flav and Professor Griff aka Public Enemy are dolls … well, the politically correct term is Action Figures.

Peter Garrett has released a biting message to Australia about Hope vs Corporate Greed in his ‘It Still Matters’ video.

Over Thirty people were arrested on Saturday night at a Guns N' Roses show in New Jersey.

On September 23, Parolphone will release the new twelve-CD box set David Bowie: Who Can I Be Now?

Yes will release a new version of their 1973 set Tales of Topographic Oceans as the fifth in a series of remixed and expanded albums by Steven Wilson.

Police have handcuffed Dr Dre outside his Malibu home after someone was blocking his drive.

Out On The Weekend, one of Australia’s most unique music festivals, will return in October with Marlon Williams and Robert Ellis leading a full day of pure entertainment.

Shakin’ Stevens has returned with his twelfth studio album, Echoes Of Our Times, due in September 16.

Insane Clown Posse has called on all their Juggalo supporters to march on Washington.

The National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) in Philadelphia will be the exclusive East Coast venue for Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution.

‘Cruel’, the winning song by The Voice Australia winner Alfie Arcuri, has tumbled down the chart with second week sales of less than 500.

Don McLean has plead guilty to a number of charges related to his domestic violence incident in January.

Joe Perry has returned to the stage with his band the Hollywood Vampires weeks after he collapsed during a concert.

Singer and actor Rick Springfield is really going to the devil.

Tex Perkins’ Far From Folsom will do even more time an Old Melbourne Gaol with a fourth and final show added as a matinee session on October 30.

The sixth studio album for US rock act Good Charlotte becomes the acts second No.1 album here, as "Youth Authority" lands the pole position on this weeks ARIA Albums Chart.

For only the second time this year we have a song debuting at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart, as this week the new Katy Perry song "Rise" leaps in at the No.1 spot to become her fourth No.1 single in Australia.

Don Burrows 3CD ‘Babinda Trilogy’ has been made available again for the first time in 25 years through Robert Rigby’s Ambition label.

The family of the late Luciano Pavarotti are the latest in a long line music people wanting Donald Trump to stop associating himself with their music.

An audio file of David Bowie rehearsing for the 1995 ‘Outside’ tour has surfaced on Soundcloud.

Sia has been cast in the upcoming kids movie ‘My Little Pony’ as a character called Songbird Serenade.

Casey Barnes is the latest artist to join Social Family Records for his second album ‘Live As One’.

The Cure have arrived in Australia for shows in Sydney and Melbourne this week after performing a 36 song setlist in Auckland, New Zealand on July 21.

The Australian Institute of Music in Sydney and Melbourne will have an open day in August.

Ariana Grande reportedly had a proposed performance at the White House rejected because of the outcry over her doughnut-licking scandal last year.