Rod McKuen, the poet and songwriters whose credits include Jean, If You Go Away, Seasons in the Sun and Love's Been Good to Me, died on Thursday in Beverly Hills, CA from pneumonia. He was 81.

Ringo Starr has a song about his first band Rory and the Hurricanes on his next album ‘Postcards From Paradise’.

Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney will come alive with the sound of music tonight when Bernard Fanning together with Little May kick off the first show in the Twilight At Taronga series.

Courtney Barnett has anointed her debut album ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think And Sometimes I Just Sit Out’ and revealed a video for the song ‘Pedestrian At Best’.

Cold Chisel will reunite next month for a one-off show in honour of a man who has had a tough, hard working life with barely any recognition ... Sir Prince Phillip.

Paul McCartney will return to Japan in April to make up for the shows he had had cancel due to illness in 2014.

MAJOR RELEASES THIS WEEK INCLUDE NEW ALBUMS FROM; McBusted, Title Fight, Helions, Fifth Harmony and All We Are.

Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler has been arrested in Death Valley, CA after a bar fight.

Godsmack and Papa Roach will play Soundwave sidewaves in Melbourne and Brisbane and take turns closing.

Madonna has revealed she doesn't have "the stamina to take drugs".

Steely Dan are heading back out on the road for 2015.

The Recording Academy has added a number of performers to their 57th Annual Grammy Awards on February 8.

Mark Ronson will play A DJ set in Sydney next week during his Australian promo tour.

Daniel Johns has released his first solo song ‘Aerial Love’.

Mike & Molly star Melissa McCarthy will star in the big budget revitalisation of Ghostbusters.

The Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown has fronted a UK court to testify that his former school teacher Fred Talbot once showed a porn film in class.

Departing Blink-182 member Tom DeLonge has written a wordy explanation about the past few days of self-destruction within the band.

Johnny Marr will make good his postponed Australian and New Zealand tour with new dates in July.

Kylie Minogue is apparently taking tips from Lady Gaga for her "sexy" new music.

NZ comedian Rhys Darby has been given his own show on the tele.

The Groovin’ The Moo Festival for 2015 has curated some of Australia’s best new acts to play alongside their international placements of choice.

Actor and magician Robert Zabrecky is the star of a new teaser video by L7.

Blink-182 have continued their mud slinging fight with Tom DeLonge into another day.

Taylor Swift was the big winner in the Triple J Hottest 100 this year but no, not by chart placement. Taylor Swift won by sales.

Millencolin and The Vandals will play their own shows outside Soundwave in Melbourne and Brisbane.

Billy Galewood will no longer be Bushwalla after 2015. Bushwalla is reverting back to Billy Galewood and the 15 year Bushwalla name is being retired.

There's something a little weird going on in the Blink-182 camp with Tom DeLonge.

Mark Knopfler has added to his previously announced European dates with 36 North American dates during September and October.

Diana Ross will play what could be called a "mini residency" in Las Vegas.

Marianne Faithfull has been forced to postpone her upcoming tour after a broken hip, which she suffered in May of last year, became infected.