Van Halen took advantage of the estimated 1,000,000 people descending on Times Square in New York and the 100 million watching on TV on New Year’s Eve to unveil what is believed to be the album cover for the new album.

Producer Steve Lillywhite has been honoured by Queen Elizabeth II.

Adele's '21' topped the ARIA Top 100 chart and was the biggest selling album of 2011 in Australia.

LMFAO 'Party Rock Anthem' was the biggest selling song in Australia for 2011.

Not surprisingly Adele ‘21’ was the biggest selling album in Australia this year and LMFAO had the number one single with ‘Party Rock Anthem’.

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan is planning to open a Tea House in Chicago in the New Year.

Ian Molly Meldrum is gradually improving day by day but it will be a long time before he is back on his feet.

A bitter Pennsylvania musician was the one who started the Jon Bon Jovi is dead rumour just before Christmas.

Katherine Jenkins and Gethin Jones have split.

Beyonce and Jay-Z have a new daughter, according to UK press reports.

Fans of The Doors who were looking forward to the release of the 5 disc box set of 'L.A. Woman' have some bad news coming.

The 14-month marriage of Katy Perry and Russell Brand has come to an end.

Betty McQuade, best known for her hit ‘Midnight Bus’, has died in Brisbane on December 26, 2011 at age 70 after a long illness.

Peter Frampton is the latest artist heading to court. This time its with Universal Music over unpaid royalties.

Bruce Langhorne, the man who Bob Dylan wrote ‘Mr Tambourine Man’ about in 1965 has just released his first album.

The grandparents of Justin Bieber have been involved in a serious car accident in Canada.

Staff at St Luke’s Roosevelt hospital have been placed on alert for “a celebrity arrival”. Beyonce is getting ready to give birth to her first child.

Gotye. Congrats. You have the number one song in Germany.

Van Halen will release the new album on February 7, 2012.

Motorhead are getting into the jewelry business. They have released a skull ring via The Great Frog jewelers.

Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher has taken to Facebook to warm he was ripped off on eBay after selling a guitar to someone in Germany.

The Melbourne photographic studio of Kane Hibberd was broken into over Christmas and a lot of Kane’s equipment was stolen.

Van Halen’s cryptic graphic featuring the date 2.7.12 has sent fans guessing into what it is all about.

Producer T-Bone Burnett has mixed a few genres for the movie The Hunger Games. He has placed Taylor Swift, Arcade Fire and The Decemberists on the same soundtrack.

There were no suspicious circumstances to the death of rapper Heavy D. He died of natural causes from a blood clot.

Sinead O’Connor and her fourth husband Barry Herridge have split just 16 days after marrying.

Bobby Gillespie says there are hardly any real musicians out there anymore.

Jim ‘Motorhead’ Sherman from Frank Zappa’s Mothers Of Invention died on Christmas Day at the age of 69.

Michael Balzary aka Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers has sold his property in Moyura on the New South Wales south coast.

Fergie has congratulated her sister Dana Ferguson on her engagement on Christmas Day.