US touring giant Live Nation has acquired Australian promoter Michael Coppel Presents and Michael Coppel will take over as the company President and CEO.

Cold Chisel and Nicki Minaj head up a really interesting week in new releases.

Melbourne singer/songwriter Megan Washington has become an Ambassador for Record Store Day Australia.

Here is your preview of the new Marilyn Manson video ‘No Reflection’.

“All I want to be is idiot free and out of here with you”, sings Jimmy Barnes on the new Cold Chisel song ‘Everybody’.

The Black Keys frontman will work on LA greaser rock sensation Hanni El Khatib’s second album.

Limp Bizkit record-scratcher DJ Lethal has revealed that Fred Durst is planning on sacking two original members.

Dannii Minogue and her partner Kris Smith have announced their break-up.

Glee’s cover of Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ has hit the web in full. Watch it. If you like.

Canadian rock icon Neil Young has filed trademark applications for a “studio quality” audio format to challenge mp3s.

Platinum Australian songstress Missy Higgins has unveiled a making-of video for her long-awaited third album The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle.

Paul McCartney’s son, James, likes the idea of a new generation Beatles group with the sons of Ringo, George and John.

Shirley Manson gets her eyeball sliced in Garbage’s surrealist clip for their comeback single.

Last Friday (March 30), the Washington Post ran an article by Paul Farhi about Bruce Springsteen's use of a teleprompter. People have been critical of the devices from their use by guests on Saturday Night Live to the regular usage by President Obama throughout his term.

The Angels/Gangajang drummer Graham ‘Buzz’ Bidstrup was also the manager of the great Jimmy Little who passed away on Monday.

Tony Bennett is one of the last performers of his generation. The American superstar is a contemporary of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. He has been performing for more than 60 years and now at age 85 still has the voice.

Baroque pop waif Fiona Apple is back with The Idler Wheel and has revealed album art and a tracklist.

Anthony Callea will head to the studios of Network Ten to perform his new song ‘Last To Go’ on Young Talent Time on Friday.

The show begins not at the chime of the clock but on the way to the venue. The young (and not so young) ladies in their wiggle skirts, cropped cardies and animal print tights, and gentlemen in their rocker jeans and tees showing retro prints, stroll by Pellegrini’s making diners believe they’ve been captured in some kind of time warp.

Earth, Wind and Fire’s ‘Now, Then & Forever’ is a compilation of songs curated by some of the world’s biggest names including Justin Timberlake and will.i.am.

Popstress Ricki-Lee gets skimpy and colourful in a new clip for the streetwalking ‘Do It Like That’.

Rockabilly princess Lanie Lane has sold out her Melbourne and Sydney shows, so she's kindly added some more.

Movie musical Rock Of Ages have delivered a new trailer, featuring a lot of Tom Cruise as rock star Stacee Jaxx.

Adele has revealed that she’ll have a new song out this year, but an album is still a while away.

Frontman for experimental nu-metal act System Of A Down, Serj Tankian, has finished his third solo album Harakiri.

Introducing Rocket Juice and The Moon, another “supergroup” for you.

Watch the trailer for ‘Sparkle’, the final movie for Whitney Houston.

Patti Smith delivers the first single, ‘April Fool’, from her forthcoming album, featuring songs for Johnny Depp and Amy Winehouse.

Rock legends INXS have booked a mammoth tour, hitting regional spots up the East Coast and into South Australia.

Australian music legend Jimmy Little has died peacefully at his home at the age of 75.