Tool, featuring vocalist Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones, drummer Danny Carey and bassist Justin Chancellor, will return to Australia and New Zealand in April but there is no new music.

Graveyard Train, Tony Joe White and Ross Wilson are just some of the acts scheduled to play Carnival of Suburbia in Melbourne in March.

They Might Be Giants will perform sideshows around Australia in addition to their Groovin’ The Moo headline slot.

70’s American punk band The Descendents will kick off their Australian tour tomorrow (February 6, 2013).

Extreme are no longer coming to Australia and that means Richie Kotzen is scratched as well.

Melbourne singer songwriter Henry Wagons has appeared on the SXSW Music schedule.

Irish chanteuse Camille O’Sullivan has been performing Shakespeare’s ‘The Rape of Lucrece’ in Melbourne for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Beyonce has used her global showcase at the Super Bowl quickly announce a World Tour.

Singer songwriter Shelley Segal has kicked off her Australian tour before heading back to the USA where she recorded her new album.

Josh Groban will return to Australia in April.

Rickie Lee Jones will return to Australia and New Zealand in March.

Following their signing to Warner Brothers in the USA, The Rubens are set to be the Australian buzz band of 2013 at SXSW in Texas next month.

Pennywise have replaced the ailing Zoli Teglas with original singer Jim Lindberg and have rescheduled their Australian dates.

Hoodoo Gurus will bring Blue Oyster Cult to Australia for the 2nd (and what now looks like annual) Dig It Up.

Hip-Hop legend Nas will co-headline and curate Movement, a brand new music festival for Australia in April.

The Darkness and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts will tour Australia in April with Australia’s Jackson Firebird rounding out the bill.

Matt Sykes, the drummer for Paul Greene and the Other Colours has died following a boating accident near Jervis Bay on the New South Wales south coast.

They Might Be Giants will return to Australia for the first time since 2001 to perform for the Groovin’ The Moo festival.

Keith Urban will perform his postponed Brisbane concert on February 5.

The Who are taking their tour of the album Quadrophenia to the U.K.

Hot off the road from a rare reunion with the Monkees, Michael Nesmith has announced that he will, once again, be touring his solo material during March and April.

The Celtic Thunder concert tonight (Tuesday) in Brisbane will not be going ahead because of the extreme weather in the region.

Keith Urban’s postponed concert from last night (Sunday) rescheduled for tonight (Monday) is once ahead postponed due to the flooding in Brisbane.

Norah Jones has rescheduled the date for her Perth concert next month following an invitation to perform at the Academy Awards.

Keith Urban has postponed his Brisbane show tonight (Sunday January 27) because of Brisbane’s extreme weather conditions today.

Elvis Costello played a short and sharp 18 song one hour and 15 minute set for his first A Day On The Green show at Rochford Winery last night (January 26).

Elvis Costello and The Imposters kicked off their Australian tour in Melbourne last night, spinning the wheel to create the setlist.

Red Hot Chili Peppers performed at Big Day Out in Adelaide last night. Only one song, ‘Universally Speaking’, was performed for the first time on this tour.

Coachella has secured an impressive line-up with reformations for Nick Cave’s Grinderman and Violent Femmes on the list.

If you are in Perth, Noise11 would like to make it easier for you to see The Waterboys on their first-ever Australian tour. We have arranged through Live Nation for a $35 ticket to the Perth gig for Noise11 readers only.