Tracking has been completed for the third Children Collide album.

In Brazil, Courtney Love whips her top off, then storms offstage, then returns to slag Dave Grohl.

Amanda Palmer’s punk cabaret outfit The Dresden Dolls announce their first shows in Australia since 2006.

Irish heartbreaker Ronan Keating announces a 2012 tour with Sharon Corr of The Coors.

Austin blues drummer Doyle Bramhall died suddenly on Sunday at the age of 62.

General Pant’s music label Major Label has merged the bubble artist mentoring program and signed a new act, The Khanz.

Gunners tweet onstage pics, Portishead, The Flaming Lips and PVT talk Harvest, NKOTB book NYC NYE gig, Willow Smith gets hacked, and heaps more.

CONTEST HAS FINISHEDFOOTPRINTS – The Best Of Powderfinger 2001-2011 brings together 18 musical moments to serve as a permanent reminder of what made Powderfinger one the greatest and most popular Australian bands of all time. 

CONTEST HAS FINISHED'Company' is album number three for Bluejuice and you can win it this week at Noise11.com.

CONTEST HAS FINISHEDFrom start to finish, there was always music playing in the background during production of RED DOG.

Japanese masters of rock weirdness, Boris, book a run of dates in Australia for March next year.

The Rolling Stones are playing down the possibility of any 50th anniversary shows next year.

Susan Boyle’s third album Someone To Watch Over Me shuffles the top ten down in this week’s chart wrap.

The inaugural Harvest Festival kicked off yesterday in Melbourne with a slew of spectacular performances.

The Doors ‘L.A. Woman’ is getting a 40th anniversary make-over by Rhino Records. A new 2CD version of the classic album by The Doors will be released on November 25.

Pegi Young will release her third album ‘Bracing For Impact’ later this month.

The iconic Abbey Road studios in London turned 80 this weekend.

Simply Red star Mick Hucknall was surprised to find out he had died this week so he tweeted about it.

Ashton Kutcher has “resigned” as a Twitter tweeter after posting support for a child molester.

Rapper Heavy D will be laid to rest back home in New York after passing away on Tuesday at the age of 44.

Universal Music Group (UMG) has signed an agreement to buy EMI’s recorded music division for £1.2 billion. ($AUD1.8 billion, $US1.9 billion).

METALLICA have today announced that they will headline the 10th Download Festival at Donington Park on Saturday 9 June 2012, with an exclusive UK performance oftheir best selling, No. 1 album Metallica, more commonly known simply as 'The Black Album'.

As long as they have existed, Van Halen has recorded for Warner Brothers records, but that is about to change. There are strong rumors that sometime next week, the band will become part of the Interscope family which is part of the Universal Music Group.

Nick Lowe tells Noise11.com that the inspiration for one of the songs on his new album was his former father-in-law Johnny Cash.

Queen guitarist Brian May has revealed that a duet featuring Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson will be released as a new Queen record in 2012.

The original line-up of Black Sabbath have reunited to record their first album since 1978 and then take the show on the road.

Canadian art-core band Fucked Up have announced a couple of shows alongside their Foo Fighters support.

Michael Stipe visits Colbert, Dillinger/Mastodon side project reveals their name, Will.I.Am is on a large plane, Jennifer Hudson watches Dreamgirls, and heaps more.

Brisbane brats Bleeding Knees Club plug their new single ‘Teenage Girls’ with an East Coast tour.

Seal goes soul again, and Glee get in the yuletide spirit in a long list of new releases out today.