Joshua Batten has released two albums since the pandemic began. 2020's The City Within was completed just as the lockdowns began and then came 2022's 'Learn To Live Again', a concept album inspired by both the lockdowns and Mental Health.

Former Fiction Plane frontman Joe Sumner will release his debut solo album soon.

As The Stranglers approach 50 years since they formed in Surrey, UK in 1974, the legacy of the band continues with the heart and soul founding member Jean-Jacques Burnel and stalwart guitarist since 2000 Baz Warne.

Del Amitri's songs have gone from hits in the 80s and 90s to Classic Hits in the 2020's.

James Morrison will perform for Sydney's Twilight At Taronga on February 26, 2023 at Taronga Zoo.

Phil Manning is one of Australia's greatest blues guitarists. As a founder of Chain, he gave us 'Judgement', 'Black and Blue' and that iconic album 'Towards The Blues'.

The absence of Dale Ryder and sudden withdrawal of Boom Crash Opera over the last couple of years happened for a reason.

The 2023 season of Twilight At Taronga will kick off with The Living End on 10 February 2023.

Chino Moreno and Shaun Lopez of Crosses ††† catch up with Noise11.com's Paul Cashmere.

The Rubens will kick off 2023 on the Summersalt tour with Angus & Julia Stone, Ben Harper, City & Colour, Middle Kids and Alex The Astronaut. It’s a great line-up with Elliott Margin from The Rubens telling Noise11 he hopes to get some Beer Pong in with the bands along the way.

The Hoodoo Gurus have stepped in for Jimmy Barnes’ By The C headline shows in 2023 while Jimmy recovers from back surgery.

On March 11 2023 Busby Marou will perform at Twilight At Taronga at Taronga Zoo, Sydney.

The Fabulous Caprettos, featuring Russell Morris, Daryl Braithwaite, Jack Jones and Rai Thistlewayte, will perform theatre shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in 2023.

The Superjesus will release new music in 2023, with a new song Money (We're Only In It For Love) out January and tour dates through to March.

Me First & The Gimme Gimmes have a stack of dates for Australia and New Zealand for 2023.

Paulie Stewart's new book All The Rage is more than a music story.

Truck is an Australia rock ensemble with Baby Animal's Dave Leslie and Horsehead's Andy McLean giving out a good ol' dose of Australian pub rock 2022 style.

Counting Crows will tour Australia in 2023 with shows for Live Nation in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.

Frente released their debut album Marvin The Album on 24 November 1992. We’ve just hit the 30th anniversary of the album featuring ‘Accidently Kelly Street’, ‘Ordinary Angels’ and later that wonderful cover of New Order’s ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’.

The Soul Movers Lizzie Mack and Murray Cook have something to ask. Would you like to open for their 3 December 2022 show in Melbourne? Hit up their socials of email [email protected]

Since releasing their first album in 2000, Disturbed have had five number one albums in the USA. The new album for 2022 is 'Divisive'.

In 2010, Dead Boys' Cheetah Chrome and New York Dolls' Sylvain Sylvain teamed up for a new band called Batusis.

When Joseph Calderazzo presented ‘The Great Gig In The Sky’ shows in 2019 he gave the Australian audience the closest thing to a Pink Floyd experience as we could get without any members of Pink Floyd.

Bad Religion and Social Distortion will tour Australia in 2023 for Destroy All Lines.

Canada’s Cory Marks has been noticed by a lot of famous friends with country star Travis Tritt, Motley Crue’s Mick Marrs and Ivan Moody of Five Finger Death Punch working with him.

Peter O’Doherty and Reg Mombassa originally formed Dog Trumpet as a side project to Mental As Anything in 1991but after officially leaving the Mentals in 2000 it became the full time gig.

For Kav Temperley’s second solo album away from Eskimo Joe he has dug deep into the influences for ‘Machines of Love and Grace’.

Since 1986 when Boom Crash Opera first charted with ‘Great Wall’, the songs of Peter Farnan have never been far from us. The band had 10 Top 40 singles which alone make a dynamic setlist.

Hamish Cowan of Cordrazine calls his band “a moment on time”. In 1998 Cordrazine had a Top 10 album in Australia with ‘’From Here To Eternity’ and then broke up. They reformed in 2010 for a second album ‘Always Coming Down’ and then split again.

Direction of the Heart is the 19th Simple Minds album.