Rarely does an album ever drop on my desk from a complete unknown and knock me out. This week in the mail I received a package from Andy Jans-Brown containing his double album ‘Letting Go’. You must hear it.

Jack White ‘Blunderbuss’ is the biggest selling vinyl album of the year so far.

Adele ‘21’ is the biggest selling album of the year in the USA so far and the only album to have sold more than 1,000,000 units.

Gotye ‘Making Mirrors’ is the third biggest selling digital album of 2012 so far, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Melbourne’s Gotye featuring Kimbra ‘Something That I Used To Know’ is the biggest selling song in the USA for 2012 so far, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

Cherry Bar owner James Young has turned down a visit from Lady Gaga at Melbourne’s famed music venue.

Zakk Wylde and his wife Barbaranne welcomed their new son into the world today. Sabbath Page Wielandt Wylde has come into the world.

Yesterday, the world lost one of the most loved actors of the television era with the passing of Andy Griffith.

Tommy Lee recently went on the Motley Crue Facebook page to complain about what must be one of his biggest pet peeves, fans asking him for a picture.

In the frank, no-holds-barred style that has seen his previous book The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club reach critical acclaim, Peter 'Hooky' Hook takes us to the heart of Joy Division and the sound that defined an era and inspired a generation with propulsive bass guitar melodies such as 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'.

According to Billboard, Adele and Gotye are the highest-selling artists for the first half of 2012.

Rising Sydney indie dance trio RUFUS have booked national tourdates to plug their ‘Blue’ EP.

Pink has announced the title and release date of her next album in a saucy little YouTube clip.

Indie chanteuse Ainslie Wills follows up the stunning ‘Fighting Kind’ with her new single ‘Stop Pulling The Strings’.

Leonardo’s Bride singer Abby Dobson has turned their 1996 hit ‘Even When I’m Sleeping’ into a French torch song as Baby et Lulu with Lara Goodridge.

Sydney based FunkCore band The Side-Tracked Fiasco will kick off their Australian tour tonight in Port Macquarie.

At the end of her five-night reign at Rod Laver Arena, Lady Gaga chose the very indie NSC to have her after party.

Flea, Ed Sheeran, Pete Wentz and scores more give their support to Frank Ocean following his “coming out” post.

The Olympic theme from epic Brit-rockers Muse now has an inspirational IOC-approved video.

OFWGKTA member and Kanye and Jay-Z collaborator Frank Ocean reveals his first love was a man.

Icehouse will hit the road in October to tour off the back of the reissues of their classic ‘Primitive Man’ and ‘Man Of Colours’ albums.

Former D:Ream and Jimmy Page Band keyboardist Professor Brian Cox has been particularly excited about the Higgs boson's discovery being confirmed.

Portland instrumental rockers Grails are here for the This Is Nowhere fest and they’ll go up the East Coast.

Turns out the forthcoming Jimi Hendrix biopic will only feature songs from the Beatles, Muddy Waters and others.

US music label Razor & Tie has signed a distribution deal with Shock Records in Australia for its rock releases.

Inventive British blues-rock-pop guys Gomez return to Australia once again with setlist requests and after parties.

‘Moonshadow’ featuring the music of Cat Stevens, will finish in Melbourne in August and then head to London’s West End as well as other territories.

Def Leppard have gone back into the studio to rerecord some of their biggest hits in a move to regain control of their music from the record companies.

Rapper Nas collaborated with Amy Winehouse on tracks in 2008 and he has just revealed one titled ‘Cherry Wine’.

Julian Lennon has downed tools on a brand new song he has been working on with Steven Tyler.