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Multiple promo tours to the USA by Melbourne band Jacobs Run are starting to pay off. US radio programmers are starting to pay attention and their songs Hold On A Minute, Use, Sleepwalking, Better Days and So Beautiful are getting airplay.

Beyonce is still "a bit in shock" that she has a role in the live-action remake of her favourite Disney film, The Lion King.

Drake has been sued by a female fan who was injured at one of his shows.

Bastille has another project and it won't be under the Bastille name. Frontman Dan Smith's first love was film and he has continued to drop references to his favourite flicks in their music over the years.

Ed Sheeran’s new album No.6 Collaborations Project is off to a strong start this week as the singer-songwriter’s duets collection charges towards the Official Albums Chart top spot.

When Indigenous singer songwriter Thelma Plum was a small girl growing up in the New South Wales country town Delungra, her musical tastes were being molded listening to Paul McCartney and Paul Kelly. On her new album ‘Better In Blak’, she has co-written a song with her two idols.

The Preatures guitarist Jack Moffitt has been in the studio working on the new song for Iluka.