With Prince as executive producer and featuring artists like Maceo Parker and Trombone Shorty, Andy Allo's new album, Superconductor, immediately topped Amazon's Soul and R&B charts following its release last month. Noise11 had a listen to see what all the fuss was about.

Thin Lizzy will officially be no more after their upcoming Australian tour with Kiss and Motley Crue. In an interview with Noise11.com, Scott Gorham has revealed his new band will be called Black Star Riders.

The members of LostProphet say they in shocked at the Child Sex allegations brought against their singer Ian Watkins.

For The Fallen Dreams can no longer make it to Australia next month for the Boys of Summer tour but San Francisco’s First Blood have jumped in to replace them.

John Mayer wants you to make the music video for his new song ‘Something Like Olivia’.

Federation Square Melbourne will once again become a live music venue with free music acts throughout January.

Australia's radio industry has once again showed its lack of support for Australian music in 2012 with figures released today showing that just one Australian song made the Top 10 airplay figures this year.

The second trailer for The Great Gatsy was uploaded in the past few hours and towards the end Filter’s version of The Turtles 60s pop classic ‘Happy Together’ is featured.

Johnny Depp makes a couple of appearances on the Nick Cave soundtrack for ‘West of Memphis: Voices of Justice”.

The Living End’s Friday and Saturday night shows at The Corner Hotel in Melbourne this week both feature a special guest support band called Ivy and the Big Apples. Who are they?

Anne Hathaway gets to sing ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ for the new Cameron Mackintosh Hollywood blockbuster version of ‘Les Miserables’.

Meat Loaf has been threatening to retire from touring for some time but, like Cher, we had stopped taking him seriously. On Tuesday, he announced his supposed final tour of the U.K. (and, supposedly, other parts of the world at a later date) with the Last At Bat Tour.

To celebrate their induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, Yothu Yindi have released a career-spanning retrospective entitled Healing Stone which includes the full-length doco Tribal Voice.

Queen guitarist Dr. Brian May isn't just known for his unique way of manipulating six strings with high tension floating above some magnets, he also knows his way around a quasar and this knowledge could see him hosting the BBC's long-running program The Sky At Night.

Columbia Records has released a highlights album from last week's 121212 concert for relief of victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Kate Ceberano will ring in the New Year with her first album of original material in 2013.

MY DISCO have had a great decade, with three albums, shows all over the world and general adulation from anyone who has seen them live and still has their hearing in tact. So what better way to celebrate than with a hometown gig?

Byron Bay’s own Parkway Drive is streaming their entire ‘Home Is For The Heartless’ DVD on YouTube.

Melbourne band King Parrot might be a little screamy for your dainty ears, but if I have my way every Australian will see this video and cringe a little bit at bassist Wayne "Slattz" Slattery's freakish portrayal of "the boss".

Mediocre critics reviews and less than stellar sales be damned. Madonna did it best this year on the concert state.

The new video by the Killers for the song Here With Me has quite a good pedigree.

Stevie Wonder has given $100,000 to a little girl battling cancer, the same child to whom Charile Sheen had also recently donated.

Melbourne’s Oh Mercy have been announced as special guests of the very first Australian tour for The Waterboys for the Melbourne and Sydney shows.

Status Quo has announced that their drummer for the last twelve years, Matt Letley, has left the group.

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas has never sounded as cool as it does when a rapper like Big Boi reads it through.

Bette Midler is "waiting for the call" to appear on Glee.

Koko, the Red Cloud Kelpie who starred in the hit Australian movie ‘Red Dog’, has died in Perth at the age of seven.

In 2006 while New Order were recording ‘Waiting For The Sirens Call’, the UK band decided to place a few songs in a time capsule, for release eventually.

Paul McCartney and the surviving members of Nirvana divided music fans last week with their performance of the new song Cut Me Some Slack at the Hurricane Sandy benefit gig in New York. Well now the argument can continue with the studio version.

Iceland’s Of Monsters And Men will continue around Australia to play on the Laneway Festival with Adelaide and Perth dates now confirmed.