Status Quo has announced a new series of "plugged in" shows but admit it won't be the same without Rick Parfitt.

Sydney hard-core band Northlane are going out on the road for another national tour in October.

Rise Against will return to Australia and New Zealand in 2018 for their first shows in three years.

Ed Sheeran remains at No.1 for a fifteenth broken week with his third studio album "÷ (Divide)".

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee along with added vocals by Justin Bieber are at No.1 for an eighth straight week with their Spanish infused hit "Despacito", becoming Justin's longest run at the top in Australia now.

Spandau Ballet will continue despite lead singer Tony Hadley’s sudden statement that he was leaving the band this week.

Bon Scott was born on this day in 1946. He would have been 71 years old today.

Marilyn Manson’s father Hugh Warner has died.

Paul McCartney performed in Miami on Friday night and the setlist gives Australian fans a glimpse of what to expect in December.

Stubb’s BBQ, the iconic Austin music venue and restaurant, will have to change its name.

Lorde has addressed a comment she made after appearing on Channel 7 Australia’s tabloid TV show Sunrise as beat-up bullshit.

Today is happy 77th birthday for Ringo Starr and he celebrated the day by announcing his new album, Give More Love.

Madonna has publicly thanked everyone who helped to build a new hospital wing named after her adopted daughter Mercy James in the child's native Malawi.

Rare extended mixes of classic Australian pop hits of the 80s have been made available again for the first time in decades on the new Warner compilation ’12 Inch Dance: 80s Australian Pop.

The National Live Music Awards gala event for 2017 is moving from Sydney to Melbourne.

Diesel has been added as a surprise late addition to perform and chat exclusively at the Melbourne Guitar Show in August.

The Verve took the music world by storm when their album Urban Hymns was released on September 29, 1997.

British India have released the first taste of their upcoming sixth album with the song ‘Precious’.

Fans of Green Day gathered outside the stars' Scottish hotel on Tuesday (04Jul17) to serenade the rockers after extreme weather prompted the cancellation of their Glasgow concert.

I last saw Midnight Oil in 1993 unplugged at Ronnie Scott's having been lucky in a radio phone-in. I never thought it would take me 24 years to see them again but here I am with the excitement of youth flowing yet again.

Major new titles coming this week from: HAIM, Violent Femmes (live), Jay-Z and the Spider-Man: Homecoming and War for The Planet of the Apes soundtracks.

Britney Spears is set to have a new cancer care centre named in her honour after helping to raise $1 million (£773,000) to pay for the facility.

Australian audiences are about to witness Shakespeare plays exactly as they were originally staged in London from 1599-1614. An exact replica of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is to be built at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne.

Prince and the Revolution are back in the top five with the new deluxe versions of the soundtrack to the film Purple Rain.

Rocker Morrissey was left fearing for his life on Tuesday (July 4) after he was allegedly accosted by an "obviously insane" police officer in Rome, Italy.

The wife of late Status Quo rocker Rick Parfitt has alleged his death is a result of "medical negligence".

Former Wham and Marc Bolan manager Simon Napier-Bell will speak at the BigSound music conference in Brisbane in September.

Music SA today opened the entries for the third annual South Australian Music Awards (SAM Awards).

The sales and listening of recorded albums continues to drop according to Buzz Angle Music but, of the LPs that have been purchased or streamed, almost two-thirds were catalogue product.

Australian rock legend Richard Clapton will head out of another national tour in September, celebrating over 40 years on the road.