Fifty years ago today, September 12, 1966, The Monkees hit the TV airwaves for the first time.

Nick Murphy, the artist formerly known as Chet Faker, has released his first song under his own name.

Zydeco great Buckwheat Zydeco has been diagnosed with lung cancer.

An exhibition charting the rise and influence of iconic British band The Jam is to be sold off in one of the biggest rock n’ roll auctions to ever take place in Europe.

Jet will reform to open for Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band on Bruce’s 2017 Summer Tour.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band will tour Australia in the summer of 2017.

The 30th Anniversary LP edition of Beastie Boys' debut album Licensed To Ill will be released on October 14, 2016. This special reissue was cut from the original production masters and is presented on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl.

The Beatles new movie Eight Days A Week from director Ron Howard is an incredible document of the touring years.

Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter Patti Griffin will headline the Port Fairy Folk Festival in Victoria in 2017.

More has come to light about the plans to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Michael Hutchence in 2017.

Former Britain’s Got Talent contestant Calum Scott has the most searched out song on Shazam in Australia this week.

Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience World Tour concert film is heading to the small screen this October.

Earlier this year when Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie announced that he was suffering from terminal brain cancer, nobody thought that there would be such a creative outpouring in the offering.

Celine Dion has released the heart-wrenching song P!nk wrote as a tribute to her late husband Rene Angelil.

Bette Midler is going back to her beginnings and re-releasing her debut album The Divine Miss M.

The sixth studio album for US rock act A Day to Remember entitled "Bad Vibrations" debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week, a first for the five-piece act from Florida.

The current US and UK No.1 single is still holding onto the top of the ARIA Singles Chart this week (as Australia did so before the overseas charts), "Closer" for The Chainsmokers and Halsey, selling enough here to be newly classified 2x▲Platinum in sales.

Lady Gaga has added an Emmy to her list of awards after picking up the award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.

The Chainsmokers and Halsey’s hit ‘Closer’ continues to rule both the Australian download and streaming chart this week.

Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’ has pulled back in from of A Day To Remember and the Suicide Squad soundtrack to take but the number one spot on the Australian album chart.

The Chainsmokers and Halsey hit ‘Closer’ has stayed at no 1 in Australia for another week as Black Eyed Peas all-star '#whereisthelove' starts to already run out of steam.

Ken Sparkes, one of the most popular voices on Australian radio and later television, has died at the age of 76.

Barbra Streisand has performed a hilarious piss-take on Donald Trump at a Hillary Clinton fund-raiser in the USA.

Jimmy Barnes is about to embark on a tour with a difference. ‘The Working Class Boy’ tour is designed as “an evening of stories and songs’.

Lady Gaga has recorded a duet with British singer Florence Welch for her upcoming album.

Tom Morello and Knife Party have united for the track ‘Battle Sirens’.

Coldplay will headline a free concert in India for the Global Citizen Festival in Mumbai.

Peter Gabriel has revealed a brand new song ‘The Veil’, written and recorded for the Oliver Stone movie ‘Snowden’.

‘Perfect Illusion’, the Lady Gaga collaboration with Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker has been revealed.

Chet Faker is over. Nick Murphy will record his next album under his own name.