Pete and Reg’s Dog Trumpet has taken top billing for the 10th birthday of the Nimbin Roots Festival but there is some bad news attached, it will also be the last year of the festival.

Beyoncé's last two tours 'Cowboy Carter' and Renaissance' have been two of the biggest grossing tours ever but to claim 'Cowboy Carter' as the biggest Country tour ever? Are they joking?

INXS 'Never Tear Us Apart' did not get to number one on the Triple J Australian Hottest 100 by chance. The song has deep roots in Australian culture across multiple generations.

The Red Hot Summer tours over recent years has had an incredible impact on moulding the artists featured in Triple J's Hottest 100 Australian songs.

The survey 4 radio ratings have been announced with Kyle & Jackie O’s controversial KISSFM breakfast show staying steady … but a stable failure. The show continues to fail each survey at the same disastrous level which gives wiggle room for more spin to come today.

Australia singer Bobby Bright, half of the 60s duo Bobby & Laurie, has died at age 80.

CBS television in the USA has announced the cancellation of the high rating, high profitable ‘Late Night With Stephen Colbert’ seemingly for political reasons.

Billy McFarland has sold the Fyre Festival brand on eBay.

ARIA’s first six months of published music charts are projecting that Australian artist chart figures for 2025 will be a disaster. All that recent fluff about changing the chart formula looks like just ‘deck chairs being rearranged on the Titanic’ based on how Australian artists have performed on the ARIA chart so far in 2025.

Movies about Jimmy Barnes, Jeff Buckley and Butthole Surfers will be featured at the 2025 Melbourne Internation Film Festival.

The 25th anniversary release of Killing Heidi’s ‘Reflector’ and the 20th anniversary release of Little Birdy’s ‘BigBigLove’ albums are the number one and number two vinyl selling albums in Australia this week.

Kyle and Jackie O’s KIISFM Melbourne radio disaster just got worse with Survey 3 for 2025 figures showing a .07 drop to 5.1. That is significant when the fall was from a figure of 5.8. The cumulative figure shows a 30,000 drop in audience. Surely ARN has run out of rags to keep polishing this turd.

Following the sad news of co-founder Brian Wilson’s death last week, The Beach Boys’ 2003 compilation The Very Best Of The Beach Boys: Sounds Of Summer surges 73 places midweek (17).

Jonathan Mayers, the co-founder of the Bonnaroo music festival and Outside Lands music festival, has died at the age of 51.

On 8 December 1975, Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZ (Triple Zed) launched one month after the Gough Whitlam Dismissal with announcer John Woods being transmission with The Who ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’.

After much media speculation in recent weeks, Network 10 has officially announced that the long-running News/Entertainment program The Project has been axed.

The Crowded House Red Hot Summer tour has gotten even hotter with two more dates added for Bribie Island, Queensland and Mornington, Victoria.

The Marlon Williams documentary ‘Marlon Williams: Two Worlds – Ngā Ao E Rua’ will premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August.

Kevin Borich Express recorded in Geelong in 1979, Sydney in 1982 and Darwin in 1995 makes up the latest release in The Desk Tape Series by Australia Road Crew Association (ARCA).

Crowded House will perform more live shows for 2025 for Red Hot Summer, as well as Mannum’s Sounds by the River and Mackay’s Legends on the Lawn.

Taylor Swift is now the proud owner of the master recordings for her first six albums.

Janet Jackson was "humbly grateful" to be honoured with the Icon Award at the 2025 American Music Awards (AMAs).

Frente will reform to perform their 1993 classic ‘Ordinary Angels’, the theme for the 2025 Reclink Community Cup, at the Reclink Community Cup on June 15.

Announcement: The Les Paul Foundation, whose mission is to honor and share the life, spirit and legacy of Les Paul through generations has announced the annual Les Paul Spirit Award in partnership with Gibson Gives, the philanthropic division of Gibson. The prestigious award will be presented to legendary musical artist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Steve Miller on Monday, June 9, 2024 at 6:30pm CT at a private ticketed event held at the Gibson Garage Nashville located at 209 10th Ave S, Suite 209 in downtown Nashville, TN. The event will take place on what would have been Les Paul’s 110th birthday, and marks the fourth anniversary of the Gibson Garage Nashville.

The second radio survey of 2025 has been revealed with the Kyle and Jackie O show in Melbourne and its dead in the water entry in 2024 has lost even more listeners in Survey 2 for 2025.

The APRA Music Awards were held in Melbourne tonight (30 April) with major wins going to Amyl and The Sniffers and Troye Sivan.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced its class of 2025. This years inductees are:

Memorial details have been revealed for the service for Mick Mazzone, the manager of Hoodoo Gurus and former manager of Ian Moss.

Kendrick Lamar leads the nominations for the 2025 American Music Awards with 10 nods.

On Saturday, April 12, 2025, Sony Hall in New York City hosted an electrifying performance by The Wooten Brothers, Victor, Joseph, Regi and Roy. Friend of the band and The Noise Network Chief Operations Officer Nick Kontonicolas was in attendance as an invited guest of the Wootens.