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The Harvest Festival has offered refunds to agitated Melbourne punters who couldn’t use their tickets in time due to botched bar service.

Bryan Ferry was made a CBE at a ceremony in London yesterday.

Blonde Redhead’s enigmatic frontwoman Kazu Makino has put together a stellar list of diverse artists who have contributed previously unreleased or rare songs for a charity album to raise money for Japan’s recovery after their devastating tsunami earlier this year.

Radiohead are gearing up again with the first of what will no doubt be many festival appearances over the northern summer.

Fifteen years after their demise, 90s electro-punks Def FX have announced they will reform for shows in 2012.

Okkervil River have covered a bunch of songs by various artists and are giving it away on their site.

Elvis Costello has found himself in the unenviable position of being “unable to recommend” his new box set to fans.

Melbourne band High Tea have released an E.P. paying tribute to the iconic physicist Richard Feynman and using artwork from cosmologist Carl Sagan.

Ten years ago today, George Harrison lost his battle with lung cancer at the age of 58, ending one of the most influential musical lives ever led.

Brighton-born Passenger, a.k.a. Mike Rosenberg, has spent most of this month heading around the country stopping into the major cities and playing his 21st century folk to adoring audiences, but now fans out of the cities will get a chance to check him out.

Bruce “The Boss” Springsteen recently announced a world tour, which set fans in Australia speculating about venues and when or if he would make it down under, but it seems that leaked dates that spread like wildfire today have a small problem.

Billy Corgan has spoken about his wrestling league, Resistance Pro which has it’s opening night tonight (Friday, 25 November, 2011) in his hometown of Chicago.

Slipknot’s Corey Taylor has lashed out at producer Rick Rubin, calling him a “thin shadow of his former self”, “overrated” and “overpaid”.

After wowing audiences across Australia earlier this year with a tour in support of their fifth studio album ‘Build A Rocket Boys!’, Elbow have announced their short-awaited return to Australia.

Magazine were an arty band that came along at the time of post-punk, but they were even on the periphery of a genre that was already on the periphery of music. Now the band have returned with their first album since 1981, ‘No Thyself’.

It’s been rumoured for a while, but actress Julie Delpy has been confirmed as the director of an upcoming biopic on the late Clash front man Joe Strummer.

Real Estate and Total Control are the final two bands to be added to the Golden Plains lineup, completing it after the lineup suffered the setback of dreamy band Low’s cancelation.

“We’re not used to playing in fancy wineries. We used to play in mining towns.” This was the line from Jimmy Barnes that summed up the awkward feeling I had in my guts about seeing Cold Chisel in the picturesque Yarra Valley. Something about it didn’t feel right and while that feeling seemed lost on

Noel Gallagher says he is “absolutely crestfallen” that he wasn’t worthy of having his phone hacked by News of the World.

Silverchair’s Daniel Johns and The Living End’s Chris Cheney have teamed up with the WSPA to help prevent the killing of rabid dogs.

Lady Gaga has her first official book in collaboration with fashion photographer Terry Richardson.

Coldplay’s Chris Martin has said that a song he wrote for Beyonce didn’t make the cut.

South by Southwest has announced a new batch of artists from around the world, including Australia’s own Lanie Lane and Oh Mercy.

The inaugural Harvest Festival kicked off yesterday in Melbourne with a slew of spectacular performances.

Regrettably, Low have been forced to cancel their upcoming Australian tour, including their appearance at the Golden Plains festival in March, 2012.

The Face The Music conference in Melbourne next month will feature musicians offering first hand advice for industry newbies.

This morning Golden Plains organisers finally let loose the remainder of their lineup. You thought Bon Iver and Roky Erickson were exciting? Well, prepare to lose your collective shit (HINT: Scroll to the bottom if you just want a list of bands).

Harvey’s tour will take in shows at the MONA FOMA Festival in Hobart, Tasmania, two shows at the Sydney Festival as well as headline shows in Melbourne and Perth.