One day before Adam Yauch passed away, the Beastie Boys were served with a lawsuit over samples that they used on their albums License to Ill (1986) and Paul's Boutique (1989).

After years of problems and controversy, Bobby Brown is finally releasing new material. The Masterpiece, his first album in 14 years, will be out on June 5 via Ingrooves.

Director Jonathan Demme's third documentary on Neil Young, Journeys, premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival and will open in theaters on June 29.

Gotye feat. Kimbra’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ video has passed the 200,000,000 YouTube views benchmark.

Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel has revealed that he is transgender and plans to start living as a woman.

A fully reunited Tea Party tell Noise11 that their return will “definitely” result in new music.

The Afghan Whigs will return to the stage for the first time in 13 years at the Bowery in New York on May 23.

New artist to watch Emma Louise will perform East Coast shows in Australia leading into Splendour In The Grass.

When Amanda Palmer took to Kickstarter.com to raise money for next album she raised over $100,000 in the first week. One week in, she has raised $598,142. Before the end of this month, Amanda Palmer may very well raise $1,000,000. That is a lot more than what a major label would put up these days.

Australia’s Mirusia Louwerse, seen globally on the Andre Rieu world tour, will perform her own shows in Australia in July.

The Wallflowers hiatus is over. The Wallflowers have reformed and are already working on their next album at Dan Auchbach’s Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville.

Jewel will play June Carter Cash in the Lifetime Network biopic based on the book Anchored in Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash by her son John Carter Cash.

Outkast's Andre 3000 has been confirmed to play Jimi Hendrix in a new Hollywood biopic to be titled All Is By My Side.

The fickle radio audience has once again been dial swapping across Australia’s cap cities, according to figures released for the second survey of 2012 but youth network Triple J is continuing to challenge the big budget commercial networks.

Talk show host Jimmy Fallon has put together an album of songs featuring super-guests Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Justin Timberlake, Eddie Vedder and Dave Matthews.

Yellowcard will return to Australia for three shows in September.

Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden has been added to APRA/AMCOS Song Summit in Sydney.

New York house icon Francois K will perform a three night stand in New Zealand and Australia over one weekend in June.

Singer songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke called the Australian Prime Minister “uninspiring” and “crushingly disappointing” on the ABC’s Q&A program last night.

Wunderkind, the new label from former Festival Mushroom Managing Director Michael Parisi, has signed a joint venture deal with Michael Gudinski’s The Mushroom Group.

The funeral service for Edith Bliss will take place in the Sydney suburb of Normanhurst tomorrow (Wednesday, May 9, 2012).

Speculation is mounting of a Rolling Stones Saturday Night Live performance on May 19 with unconfirmed reports on the Stones forum iorr.org that the band is rehearsing in New York City.

A bizarre allegation has surfaced today that Michael Jackson once ordered his brother Randy to be killed.

Adam Horovitz thanks well-wishers and Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fun, and more pay tribute to fallen Beastie Boy Adam Yauch.

Garage pop act Best Coast and dreamy indie duo Beach House are both streaming their albums online.

Aussie roots hero John Butler will release a double live album from his Tin Shed Tales tour this week.

British experimental electronic outfit Mount Kimbie played to a sold-out crowd at Melbourne’s Hi Fi last Thursday.

One Direction keep dominating, but Norah Jones and Santigold make a good showing on this week’s ARIA chart wrap.

Jim McCrary may hardly be a household name but the artists he photographed are.

Rolling Stones tickets for a Berlin date in September are currently being advertised through The Guardian newspaper’s website in the UK.