Tim Finn and Phil Manzanera first met in 1975 with Split Enz supported Roxy Music on their Australian tour. The following year Phil produced the Split Enz ‘Second Thoughts’ album. Now more than 40 years later Finn and Manzanera have reunited for a remarkable album of multi-genre, multi-generational and multi-national songs. ‘Caught By The Heart’.

Vika and Linda have released the ‘The Wait’, their first album of original songs since 2002.

Louisiana supergroup Lil’ Band O’ Gold have just released their tribute album to Fats Domino ‘Lil’ Band O’ Gold Play Fats’ with an all-star cast including Robert Plant, Lucinda Williams, Jimmy Barnes and Tim Rogers.

After 21 years and 65 productions Australia’s The Production Company has ceased production but the history goes on.

With The Black Sorrows ‘Saint Georges Road’ Joe Camilleri is clocking up his 50th studio album.

Some know him as Fox Mulder, others as Hank Moody. The truth (out there) is that David Duchovny is an actor, an author and a musician. It’s the latter qualification that why summons here today.

Steve Kilbey has had a remarkable creative output. In around 40 years he has released around 70 albums … but who is really counting?

Our the music industry continues to evolve with new technologies, the Musexpo conference in Los Angeles has been the leading gathering for open discussion of the evolution.

Like everyone Something for Kate were grounded as a live act across most of the Covid lockdowns.

Rick Springfield and Russell Morris have been working on a new music concept called ‘Jack Chrome and the Darkness Waltz’ over the extended Covid lockdown period.

Ellen Foley is heading towards the release of her fifth album. ‘Fighting Words’ is coming in August.

Jackson Browne ‘Downhill From Everywhere’ is an observation on society. It is a 2021 snapshot of the world by health, by environment, but politics and by culture.

When he first heard of Danny Elfman he was fronting US rock band Oingo Boingo. Australia liked Oingo Boingo. ‘Weird Science’ was a top 40 hit, so was ‘Stay’.

Moby doesn’t hold back in ‘Moby Doc’, his new documentary detailing the highs and lows of his life and career.

The Doors’ classic ‘L.A. Woman’ album was released on 19 April 1971, exactly 50 years ago today.

Noise11 talks to the million-selling rapper producer Flo Rida about his megahits, Sia, the lost Chris Brown tune, and more.

Diesel put Covid lockdown to good use. In 2020 he released ‘Sunset Suburbia’, an album of new songs. In 2021, he is once again paying tribute to his blues roots with ‘Alone With Blues’.

In 2014 Australia’s legendary The Seekers embarked on their Golden Jubilee Farewell tour in the UK. The 15 date sellout tour took them through Wales, Scotland and England.

More than 40 years after UB40 released their first album ‘Signing Off’ comes a new album ‘Bigga Baggariddum’.

Blues Arcadia will open the Trip the Switch music festival in Ipswich, Queensland on 3 July.

Gary Numan is now 22 albums into a 40 plus career and while he admits to have a long career, he says its hasn’t always been successful.

At age 36 Australian soprano Mirusia is already chasing “veteran” status. Mirusia has been touring then world with conductor André Rieu. In 2008 André further introduced Mirusia into her own spotlight with the ‘Waltzing Matilda’ album.

More than 30 years after its first recording, Pseudo Echo’s Brian Canham was discovered the tapes of the Pseudo Echo album we didn’t get to hear. ‘1990 The Lost Album Demos’ is a complete Pseudo Echo collection of nine songs that may have been the band’s fourth album, but instead Pseudo Echo split.

Joan Armatrading has spent the last 18 months making the album ‘Consequences’ by writing the songs, playing the instruments, recording and producing the album by herself. That sounds like a Lockdown chore, doesn’t it? Nope! Not for Joan. She has been making her albums like this for years.

On 3 July 2021, Icehouse will headline Trip The Switch, a music festival for Brisbane out of Ipswich.

On 3 July 2021, Shannon Noll will take part in Trip The Switch, a music festival for Brisbane out of Ipswich.

You may have first heard Lisa Edwards vocals back in the 80s even if you didn't know her name. Lisa sang on Real Life’s ‘Send Me An Angel’. John Farnham first used Lisa’s voice on his 1988 ‘Age of Reason’ album and she was a staple of his live shows for decades.

For 2021 Nick Barker will play the Valley Sounds in the Yarra Valley.

Rock Legend Bev Bevan made music history first with The Move in the 1960s before co-founding Electric Light Orchestra in the 1970s. He has been a member of Black Sabbath and currently sits within Quill.

When Gang of Four’s Andy Gill passed away in February 2020 he had been working on a 40th anniversary homage to Gang of Four to mark the anniversary of the first album ‘Entertainment’.