A Flock of Seagulls are short $70,000 worth of equipment and the drives containing 18-months worth of work on a new album, the result of an overnight heist of their tour van.

The band's classic 1972 double album, Rock of Ages, is being expanded to four-CDs and 1-DVD for Live at the Academy of Music 1971, out on September 17 from Capitol/UMe. A shorter 2-CD set will also be released.

Elton John has issued a thankyou note to his fans for all of the well wishes during his current medical situation.

The first Elvis Costello & the Roots collaboration has surfaced. ‘Walk Us Uptown’ is the first taste of the upcoming ‘Wise Up Ghost’ album due in September and for Elvis, working with others is now preferable to doing his own thing.

UK singer/songwriter Birdy will release her second album ‘Fire Within’ in September.

Avicii could be headed for a fourth a week at No.1 with his track “Wake Me Up”, but there are a bunch of British boys who are challenging him for the top spot in Australia this week, One Direction and their new track “Best Song Ever”.

Influential 70s New York band Television will perform their art punk classic Marquee Moon in Melbourne for All Tomorrow’s Parties in November.

Platinum selling Grammy nominated rapper Game will play pub gigs in Australia next month.

Willie Nelson will perform his classic 1978 ‘Stardust’ album in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in August.

Stereophonic's Melbourne concert tonight has been cancelled because lead singer Kelly Jones has fallen ill. (July 23, 2013).

Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum gave birth to a baby girl.

Johnny Rzeznik wanted to push the envelope for the tenth Goo Goo Dolls album so he brought in four producers to get the energy happening.

Sacha Baron Cohen had one vision for the biopic of Freddie Mercury while the other members of Queen had another.

Yoko Ono will head Australia in November for the spoken word ‘In Conversation With Yoko Ono – War Is Over (If You Want It).

The artists that built A&M Records in the mid-60's, Herb Alpert and Sergio Mendes, came to the Hollwood Bowl last Wednesday with special guest, Alpert's wife, Lani Hall.

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) have been forced to cancel the balance of dates on their current tour when drummer Malcolm Holmes became ill after their Toronto show on Saturday night. Holmes was hospitalised after the incident.

Elton John has been selected as the recipient of the inaugural BRITs Icon Award.

The Rolling Stones have released a memoir from their London concerts a few weeks ago. ‘Hyde Park Live’ is a download only album available through iTunes.

Gym Glass Heroes will return to Australia to headline Fat As Butter with Bliss N Eso.

Legendary songwriter Diane Warren will be awarded International Music Person of the Year at Musexpo 2014 in Los Angeles next April.

Smashing Pumpkins Oceania concert from December 2012 has been documented for the ‘Oceania: Live In NYC’ album.

Midnight Oil have no current plans to reform following the resignation of Peter Garrett from Federal Parliament.

Despite having one of the biggest selling albums of all-time the next Backstreet Boys album will be released independently.

Franz Ferdinand will perform their entire new album ‘Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action’ immediately after their Letterman appearance on Monday night (July 22).

A article taken out of context by one site has completely been misinterpreted by Steely Dan's Donald Fagan.

Russell Morris received his gold record award for ‘Sharkmouth’ at The Today Show on Friday.

Manchester punk band Neck Deep will hit Australian shores for the first time in November.

Pearl Jam played their big day out at Wrigley Field, Chicago on Friday night and used the stage to debut two more brand new songs.

Promoter Paul Dainty will bring Michael Bublé back to Australia for a national tour in April, 2014.

Pink reclaims her No.1 crown in Australia as her current album “The Truth About Love” jumps up three places to the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week, helped no doubt by her current massive Australian tour.