16-year New Zealand singer/songwriter Lorde will release her debut album ‘Pure Heroine’ in September through Universal.

Gotye’s The Basics and a reforming Snout will perform for the Rock The Boat fundraiser for Green’s candidate Adam Bandt and The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

Jimmy Barnes Rock The Big Top Newcastle show has been cancelled after the promoter failed to get the appropriate council approval.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band will return to Australia in 2014 and Hunters & Collectors will reform for one of the shows.

Ireland’s Clannad will return to Australia for the first time in 18 years for shows in October and November.

Room8, the company behind ‘The Man In Black’ and ‘At Last: The Etta James Story’, will bring ‘The Songs Of James Bond’ to the stage for their next production.

One of Australia’s most famous Underbelly identities Mark ‘Chopper’ Read will appear on stage at Melbourne’s Athenaeum in September.

The line-up for the 24th Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival has been revealed with Russell Morris and Jazz Bell Award winner Mick Nock on a list of artists from Australia, USA, The Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Austria.

Lady Gaga will showcase her new album ARTPOP with an hour-long performance of new music at London’s iTunes Festival n September.

Lanie Lane has announced a series of dates to play new music from her upcoming second album.

Megan Washington will return to the stage in September to showcase songs from her second album.

Cosmo Jarvis has announced shows up and down the east coast of Australia in October with Lime Cordiale joining him as special guests.

The Room8 production ‘At Last: The Etta James Story’ will continue its record run with a return visit to where it all started, Melbourne in November.

Australian supergroup The Dead Daisies have started its first US tour as part of the Uproar Festival with Alice In Chains and Jane’s Addiction.

The Falls Festival has secured the return of the Violent Femmes for this year’s event.

The Bellrays will perform an exclusive Melbourne show at CherryFest in Melbourne in November.

Bernard Fanning has had to cancel his Hobart show next Tuesday due to a funeral band members are required to attend in Queensland that same day.

Paramore and You Me At Six will return to Australia in January with Twenty One Pilots also joining the tour.

Moby will perform a one-off DJ set in Sydney in September when he visits to launch his new album ‘Innocents’.

There is definitely something funny about the music of Stephen Lynch. Lynch says fans should expect “musical comedy” when he tours Australia later this month.

Kate Ceberano will mark the release of her first album of original new songs by taking on the road around Australia starting October.

Jon Stevens is about to embark on a Dead Daisies American tour with his leg in plaster. Stevens broke his leg and dislocated his thumb just a week before the tour was to begin.

Porcupine Tree founder Steven Wilson will play solo east coast dates in Australia in October.

Pitbull and Ke$ha have teamed up for a double header tour of Australia.

Martha Davis and the Motels will return to Australia in November.

Diana Ross played the first of two shows at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night to a large crowd, putting on a 75-minute show that included four costume changes.

M-Phazes, the Melbourne based hip-hop producer and performer, has remixed Davey Lane’s ‘You’re The Cops, I’m The Crime’.

Richard Clapton will return to Sydney’s State Theatre in November for his sixth annual concert this year titled ‘The Best Years Of Our Lives’.

Seeing You Am I play to a packed house at the Enmore Thursday night was like seeing a band of adventurers returning home after a long journey of exploration and discovery to a welcoming parade where all the inner city Sydney townsfolk that saw them off in the early ‘90s came back to show their love and appreciation.

Jimmy Barnes will make a special guest appearance at the Concert For Cambodia to be held in Sydney in September.