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’.

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.