Laneway Festival has announced its 2014 dates for Australasia, as well as details of some notable changes to some of the festival venues.

Smiths legend Johnny Marr has been added to the Falls Festival line-up over the New Year’s long weekend.

Supergroup The Dead Daisies will spend a month in the UK from November 22 on tour with Black Star Riders.

Billy Bragg has been confirmed as a showcase act for the BIGSOUND music conference in Brisbane next week.

The Queenscliff Music Festival in November has announced its third round of artists with Sticky Fingers and D At Sea making the list.

Rapper The Game has finally landed on Australian soil to start is on-again, off-again Aussie tour.

Glenn Shorrock, Catherine Britt and Casey Donovan are just some of the stars coming together to perform for A Night At The Rock Opera to benefit the YWCA, New South Wales.

US country superstar Toby Keith will perform for the first time ever in Australia next March when he heads down under for CMC Rocks The Hunter 2014.

Black Sorrows and Jo Jo Zep frontman Joe Camilleri will revisit his critically acclaimed show ‘Here Comes The Night: Songs from the Van Morrison Songbook’ for Sydney and Melbourne in November.

Five acts from South Australia will head north to Queensland to showcase for the BIGSOUND music conference in September.

Australian bands Spiderbait and The Preatures will open for the final shows of Pink’s record breaking Australian tour.

Chic featuring Nile Rodgers will perform additional shows around Australia as well as appearing at Meredith Music Festival.

Rapper Joey Bada$$ will play shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth in addition to his already announced Meredith Music Festival performance.

Following the first artist announcement for Bluesfest 2014 the days the acts will play have no also been made public.

Comedian Rob Schneider will also lap Australia when he heads down under for the Just For Laughs festival in Sydney in October.

John Mayer and the Dave Matthews Band are the first major names announced for Bluesfest 2014.

The Woodford Folk Festival music programmer Chloe Goodyear is travelling the world to sign artists and put together the line-up for 2013 to be announced in October.

The Australian World Music Expo (AWME) will return to Melbourne’s from November 14 to 17, 2013.

UK boy band Five (5ive) will perform in Australia from late October as part of their ‘The Big Reunion’ tour.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band will perform a second and final Melbourne show at AAMI Park in February.

Kathy Griffin has two words for where Australia is potentially heading in the next election. “Sarah Palin”.

Ash returned to the Corner Hotel to play their breakthrough '1977' album in its entirety.

Green Day will headline Soundwave 2014 and you can add Alice In Chains and Stone Temple Pilots (with Chester Bennington) to the list as well.

Geoffrey Rush made a surprise cameo in the latest production of ‘Singin’ In The Rain’ from The Production Company in Melbourne last night.

Bluesfest will announce the first round of artists next Tuesday, August 27.

Comedian Rob Schneider and comedienne Kathy Griffin (to be politically correct and at the same time sexist) will head to Australia in October for Just For Laughs comedy festival at the Sydney Opera House.

Busby Marou will head around Australia to sing up the release of their second album ‘Farewell Fitzroy’ from August.

The Screaming Jets will lap Australia one more time kicking off a national tour in Caloundra in October.

UK band The Cribs will return to Australia in October.

The Replacements have their lineup in place for three upcoming reunion shows.