Dolly Parton will return to Australia in 2014 and we wonder if her tour bus is coming with her again.

America’s Beth Orton, New Zealand’s Tim Finn and Australia’s Matt Corby lead the first artist announcement for Woodford Folk Festival over the New Years holidays.

Another round of acts have been announced for the Van Warped Tour Australia including Millencolin, Amity Affliction and Reel Big Fish.

Eli “Paperboy” Reed will curate and perform at Brooklyn’s Union Pool for ‘Nights Like This’ in November.

ARIA nominee, Mama Kin, will perform a special show created exclusively for the Mullum Music Festival.

Held at both the Palais and the Prince Bandroom, Melbourne's Sold Out Release The Bats event has just announced its playing times.

Simple Plan will play Perth's Challenge Stadium in December with special guest Tonight Alive!

James Blunt and Busby Marou will tour Australia and New Zealand in 2014.

Bluesfest has announced the first of its sideshows for including dates for the not yet announced KC & The Sunshine Band.

Iggy Azalea is off three of the four Beyoncé Sydney and Stan Walker is in.

John Mayer will perform shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide as well as his festival dates for Bluesfest, the Deni Blues & Roots Festival and West Coast Blues & Roots in April, 2014.

John Fogerty gave Los Angeles fans a complete working of the classic Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmos Factory album on Saturday plus his greatest hits.

Bluesfest boss Peter Noble given an additional response to the withdrawal of Jamaican reggae star Ernest Ranglin from the festival following a statement Ranglin made Noise11 on the weekend.

Alex Lloyd will tour Australia for the first time since 2008.

Lynryd Skynyrd will perform live in Australia for the very first time next February.

Dave Matthews Band will team up with Gary Clark Jr for shows in Sydney and Melbourne at Easter.

Jamaican reggae great Ernest Ranglin has responded to the announcement that he had withdrawn from Bluesfest 2014 after the suggestion that he got a better offer.

Following Moe Carlson’s departure from the group, Protest The Hero have announced new permanent drummer, Mike Ieradi.

This writer has mixed thoughts about The Pixies. They were all the fashion at one time; bought the albums, went to see them, and was very disappointed.

Lisa McCune and Teddy Tahu Rhodes have been named as the stars of the next Australian production of The King And I.

Ernest Ranglin says he is not coming to Australia for Bluesfest next year because he didn’t even know about it until he was announced.

Mojo Album of the Year award winner John Grant will return to Australia in January for the first time with a full band but so far only one date has been announced.

Bob Dylan has taking the show back on the road for what has been called ‘The Never Ending Tour’ that started on June 7, 1988.

Pitbull and Ke$ha will no longer tour Australia with lack of interest appearing to be the contributing factor to the cancellation.

The Deni Blues & Roots Festival will return to Deniliquin, NSW in 2014 with John Mayer and the Doobie Brothers a couple of the names set to perform.

Cold Chisel will get back together again for 2014 and there is more new music on the way.

Ian Ball will release his second solo album ‘Unfold Yourself’ on November 15 with a tour set to begin three days later in Fremantle.

After a successful operation to remove the cancer that saw her and the band take an immediate hiatus, Sharon Jones will return to her Dap-Kings to finally ‘Give The People What They Want’.

Jeremy Neale has announced a national headline tour to coincide with his long awaited debut EP ‘In Stranger Times’ due on November 1st through Create/Control.

The Jonas Brothers have cancelled their tour only two day before it was set to begin citing a "deep rift" between the three brothers.