July 2014

Beastie Boys ‘Paul’s Boutique’ cover location at Ludlow Street in Brooklyn is to get a make-over.

Former Asia singer John Payne is suing Rock Vault Tours, the Las Vegas Hotel and Westgate Resorts over his firing from the show Raiding the Rock Vault.

Molly Meldrum’s long-time coming biography will finally be released this November.

Sydney’s Boy & Bear showcased their song ‘Southern Sun’ to America this week, thanks to Conan O’Brien.

Def Leppard apparently aren’t that anxious to return to Las Vegas.

Hole ain’t happening.

John Williamson, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and John Mellencamp lead this week’s new releases.

Ice Cube will tour Australia in December.

Melbourne’s iconic music store Pure Pop Records is vacating its home at 221 Barkley Street, St Kilda.

Elbow will head to Australia for an East Coast tour in October.

Rod Stewart has officially anthemed in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with his classic ‘Rhythm Of My Heart’.

The shortlist for the National Indigenous Music Awards looks like a who’s who of Australian music in 20014 with Dan Sultan, Gurrumul, Jessica Mauboy and Shellie Norris all shortlisted for Artist of the Year.

Cold Chisel have spent the past week working on new music with producer Kevin Shirley.

Albert Productions mark its 50th year with a massive 102 track compilation documenting the company history in Australian music which gave us AC/DC, The Easybeats, Rose Tattoo, Billy Thorpe and The Angels.

Sheppard’s ‘Bomb’s Away’ stands a chance at popping up to no 1 this week and Paloma Faith looks like having the number one single.

Deep Purple Mk III will release a 1975 live album.

Tim McGraw wants to ‘move on’ from his fan-swatting scandal.

Billy Joel has been selected to receive the sixth Gershwin Prize from the Library of Congress.

A tree planted to honour Beatle George Harrison has been destroyed by actual beetles.

Melbourne’s iconic Cherry Bar in AC/DC Lane, Melbourne now faces the threat of closure following a new residential development now towering alongside.

iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com this week gives you Phil Rudd of AC/DC’s first solo song ‘Repo Man’.

Jimmy Barnes will release at 40 track limited edition deluxe version of his upcoming album ’30:30 Hindsight’.

Splendour In The Grass are offering refunds to London Grammar fans who purchased tickets to see the band at Splendour.

The Presets are the last minute addition to Splendour In The Grass, replacing London Grammar who pulled out of the event overnight due to the illness of Hannah Reid.

London Grammar have become the latest Splendour On The Grass casualty, dropping out of this weekend’s Australian music festival “due to illness”.

Soundgarden and Nine Inch Nails opened their co-headlining tour on Saturday night at The Axis at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.

Phil Jamieson of Grinspoon and Scott Russo of Unwritten Law are heading out on a Christmas double header in December.

Avicii is adding a rock flavour to his next album with guest appearances from Jon Bon Jovi, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day and Chris Martin of Coldplay.