Paul Cashmere

The Weeknd ‘Starboy’ remains the most streamed song in Australia this week.

Bosses at the Country Music Association have dismissed reports they pulled footage of Beyonce’s collaboration with the Dixie Chicks at the CMA Awards on Wednesday night from their website.

Two engineers of The Beatles’ classic ‘Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band’ album, Geoff Emerick and Richard Lush, will sit down to discuss their work on the historic recording in Melbourne in February.

Ex-Motor Ace members Patrick Robertson and Damian Costin have a new band they call Nighthawk.

Russell Morris, Ian Moss and Kate Ceberano as well as Ray Ryder will perform at Birdsville Big Red in 2017.

PNAU have returned with their first song in four years and a new member.

British pop star Melanie Brown is heading to jail to star in hit Broadway musical Chicago.

Jet’s first two albums ‘Get Born’ and ‘Shine On’ will be expanded and reissued on 25 November.

Jerry Seinfeld is heading back to Australia in 2017.

Bruce Springsteen has added second shows in Sydney and Melbourne and a third for Perth for his ‘Summer ‘17’ tour of Australia and New Zealand.

The Afghan Whigs have been rocked by the diagnosis of guitarist Dave Rosser with inoperable colon cancer.

The Ron Howard Beatles documentary ‘The Beatles Eight Days A Week’ will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on 18 November and while it will be chockers with bonus material the controversial Shea Stadium concert will not be included.

Coldplay has issued a message to fans to submit requests for the upcoming tour in India, Australia and New Zealand.

Triple J has revealed the nominees in the four categories of the J Awards for 2017.

John Farnham has proven he still has pulling power with his second headliner for Red Hot Summer selling out for January.

Sheppard formed in Brisbane in 2009 with siblings George, Amy and Emma Sheppard with Jason Bovino and Michael Butler joining in 2011 and drummer Dean Gordon joining in 2013.

Australian music industry mogul Michael Gudinski has had his first win in the Melbourne Cup.

43 years ago Australian songwriting legend Brian Cadd and record company mogul gathering Melbourne’s most seasoned musicians and anointed them The Bootleg Family.

The Blue Mountains Music Festival will celebrate its 22nd season in 2017 with an impressive line-up starting with Australia’s Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen and including the return of Folk Uke, the daughters of Willie Nelson and Arlo Guthrie.

Lady Gaga’s obsession with owning Michael Jackson’s old clothes has now grown to around 400 pieces.

Metallica’s ‘Hardwired … To Self Destruct’ album is just weeks away and a third song has been released as a prelude.

On December 5, 1975, the classic Bob Marley & the Wailers album Live! was released featuring the best-known version of their song No Woman, No Cry.

So it really looks like Oasis are reforming for 2017. They just aren’t telling you.

Sydney duo Deep Sea Arcade will kick off an Australian jaunt in December to play up their new song ‘Learning To Fly’.

30 years ago, in the summer of 87, Jimmy Barnes, INXS, Models, Divinyls, I’m Talking, The Saints and The Triffids toured with the Australian Made festival.

Bob Dylan has finally shared a few words about his Nobel Prize and by “a few” I mean literally a few.

Husky will have a new album in 2017. The first taste of the album is the single ‘Late Night Store’.

Carly Simon says her classic ‘Anticipation’ was inspired and written about Cat Stevens while she was waiting for him to come to her house for dinner.

Birds of Tokyo have released a video for ‘Empire’ ahead of their Australian tour.

The Rubens have proven to be kings of the jungle with their Twilight At Taronga in Sydney and Melbourne Zoo Twilights shows selling out fast and extra shows added to the 2017 series.