Legendary Slade drummer Don Powell and his friend of decades, co-legend Bev Bevan of Electric Light Orchestra and The Move have made a few phone calls and gather a few friends for an all-star drumming circle version of the Sandy Nelson classic Let There Be Drums.

Australian music news and inteIn 1998 New Zealand rocked out garage rock done well with The Datsuns. The first self-titled album was released in 2002. It reached no 1 in New Zealand and no 17 in the UK. 2004’s ‘Outta Sight/Outta Mind’ was a top 10 in NZ and charted again in the UK.

Mick Thomas has been busy during lockdown. First was the album ‘See You On The Other Side’ which Mick described as a “postcard from April 2020’. Now there is ‘City’s Calling Me’, another album of newly recorded songs which Mick says kept him busy and a few musicians and industry workers employed while we merged into opening after Covid life.

As Australia continues opening up to live music The Angels will return to Melbourne for their first post-lockdown shows in June.

Tony Romeril’s ‘Will You Remember Me – A Tribute To Ted Mulry’ was a labour of love.

Laidback Melbourne rapper Seth Sentry has a new album,  and jokes about lowered expectations, tough guy hip-hop, yo-yos, and more.

In ‘Yesterday Once More’, Denis Walter has created a new album of songs that date back to when he first started listening to music.

Boom Crash Opera are Australia’s latest band to reactivate following the pandemic shutdown. Boom Crash Opera will head out on their ‘Kick It Out Live’ 2021 Australia tour starting May 7 in Albury.

The Soul Movers were faced with a challenge to record their new album ‘Evolution’. That thing called Covid, a lockdown and the inability to travel meant that Lizzie Mack and Murray Cook would make the record in hometown Sydney.

In Accidentally Like A Martyr Australian singer songwriter Henry Wagons tells the story of Warren Zevon, a songwriting genius but troubled human being.

Peter Allen released his first solo record in 1971. He died in 1992, 21 years later. Todd McKenney first played Allen in The Boy From Oz in 1998 so in a way he has been performing the music of Peter Allen longer than Peter Allen played Peter Allen.

Nile Rodgers is a musical genius. Since the mid 70s, Rodgers has been crafting the sound we know today in contemporary dance music.

Casey Barnes is one of Australia’s most popular independent Country singers.

2021 marks 40 years since Hunters & Collectors started. Between 1982 and 1998 the band released nine studio albums. Since 1997, lead singer Mark Seymour has now released 10 solo or The Undertow albums passing his H&C output in 2020 with his latest album ‘Slow Down’.

In 1993 The Badloves released their debut album ‘Get On Board’. As the 30th anniversary approaches the album has been remastered and expanded, given its first vinyl release as Michael Spiby prepares the band to tour again to celebrate what became an award winner for Best New Talent and Breakthrough Artist – Album at the 1994 ARIA Awards and took away Highest Selling Album at the ARIA’s the following year.

Jon Batiste comes from a New Orleans musical dynasty. The Batiste family dates back decades. In previous generations Harold worked with Sam Cooke and Sonny and Cher, Alvin was a music teacher who played with Wynton Marsalis and Cannonball Adderley and Lionel was once a member of the Treme Brass Band.

Some years back Richard Clapton decided to pay homage to his influences. It started with Dylan, went to The Byrds and then he went on a journey of discovery via David Crosby to Crosby Still & Nash into Neil Young into Crosby Stills Nash & Young.

Chocolate Starfish have a new album for 2021. 'Beautiful Addiction' was made during lockdown and preceded by a cover of 4 Non Blondes 1993 classic 'What's Up'.

Alice Cooper has a lot of Detroit Stories tell. he started out in Detroit, with The Stooges, Bob Seger, MC5, Suzi Quatro ... it was a hard rock town.

Bush will head to Australia in April and May 2021 for the Under The Southern Stars tour.

The first Cheap Trick album came out in 1977, the second in the same year. A few years later guitarist Rick Nielsen was playing on John Lennon's Double Fantasy sessions and taking the Beatle guitar shopping.

Ian Moss is touring again with the One Guitar One Night Only Australian tour.

Lockdown sidetracked Tim Wheatley’s recording plans from a new album and tour to a concentrated 5-track new music release ‘A Night Without Shakespeare’.

Andrew Farriss will release his self-titled debut album on 19 March 2021 through BMG.

What was Wolfmother is now Andrew Stockdale.

Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top talks music, sauce and beer.

Michael Buble talks to Noise11.com about the different sound of his fourth album, how he feels about his early recordings, working with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and imperfections in music.

Dave Mustaine of Megadeth talks to Noise11.com about still being able to write songs after 12 albums, hearing their influence in other bands and listening to various genres of music.

Tori Amos talks Noise11.com about starting to play piano at the age of two, being a very prolific songwriter, her album 'Abnormally Attracted To Sin', releasing a Christmas album, working on the musical 'The Light Princess'.

Bob Gaudio at Undercover talks about watching the Jersey Boys story unfold, the accuracy of the stage show, Joe Pesci's involvement in getting Gaudio into the Four Seasons, Tommy's role in the band, his first successful song 'Short Shorts', getting his high school diploma, the hit song 'Sherry'.