Neil Young will release Second Song with The Chrome Hearts on September 18, marking his first studio album following 2025's Talkin To The Trees and bringing together newly recorded material with songs drawn from his early songwriting archive.

The Avalanches will release their fourth studio album, No Bad Memories, on October 16, 2026, alongside new single ‘Can't Get Over Losing You' featuring Portraits of Tracy.

Green Day's new coming-of-age comedy Nimrods follows three teenagers chasing a Green Day concert in Los Angeles, with a 30-track soundtrack spanning the band's catalogue, live recordings and new music.

Ella Hooper has announced her next studio album ‘Overnight Success’, alongside the release of the deeply personal new single ‘When The Shit Went Down’, with a national Australian tour beginning in October.

Seattle garage rock band The Darts (US) have been announced as special guests for two Australian dates on The Damned's September 2026 Australian tour, joining the pioneering British punk group for concerts in Brisbane and Melbourne.

Australian rock veterans The New Christs have been confirmed as special guests for The Damned's Melbourne concert, adding one of Australia's most enduring underground rock bands to the Australian leg of the British punk pioneers' Final Damnation Tour.

DMA'S have confirmed the support acts for their Australian Tour 2026, with Los Angeles band Automatic, Melbourne's Floodlights and Sleepazoid joining the East Coast run that will also celebrate the 10th anniversary of the band's debut album, Hills End.

Bristol band Split Chain have previewed their forthcoming motionblur [DELUXE] with two newly reworked songs featuring Postdrome and Commoner ahead of the digital release on September 11 through Epitaph Records.

Australian singer-songwriter Rick Price will take his new music and career-spanning catalogue on the road this spring with a national acoustic tour built around his latest single, 'Call On Me'.

Joan Jett has postponed two September performances after undergoing surgery for a fractured vertebra, while preparations continue for the 45th anniversary reissue of her landmark 1981 album I Love Rock 'N Roll later this month.

Weezer have released the third single from their upcoming 20th studio album, using humour and self reflection to examine the music industry's appetite for nostalgia while recreating one of the band's most recognisable music videos.

Perth songwriter and producer Benny J Ward has released the new single 'Fear Of Going Out' through Cheersquad Records & Tapes and announced two Melbourne performances with his live band Benny J & The Psych Ward, featuring members of The Meanies, Even and other Australian alternative rock acts.

Australia's only festival dedicated to The Beatles returns to Bathurst from 20 to 23 August with more than 50 events across four days, as organisers release additional tickets for two previously sold out headline performances.

MaRLo will mark the 10th anniversary of his Altitude festival brand with its largest Australian event to date, featuring a 15,000-capacity production at Flemington Racecourse and a world exclusive back-to-back performance with Will Sparks.

Japanese pop-punk pioneers Shonen Knife will return to Australia this October with a national tour timed to the Australian and New Zealand release of their newly recorded album Let's Knife: Re-Cut, revisiting the record that helped establish the band internationally more than three decades ago.

Swedish guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen has confirmed his 23rd studio album, Hell Or High Water, will be released on 13 November, alongside the premiere of its first single, 'Now Or Never'.

Jimmy Barnes will lead an all Australian line-up for the 2027 edition of Sounds By The River, with Jon Stevens, Birds Of Tokyo, Eskimo Joe, Baby Animals, Chocolate Starfish and Sarah McLeod also confirmed for the South Australian festival.

New Zealand band Six60 will return to Melbourne in November for a one-off performance at the Royal Botanic Gardens as part of the 2026 Live At The Gardens concert series, marking the group's first Melbourne headline appearance in several years.

Released in August 1976, *All I Can Do* marked the closing chapter of Dolly Parton's creative partnership with Porter Wagoner and set the stage for the commercial breakthrough that followed with *Here You Come Again* just a year later.

Thousands gathered inside and outside Dublin's St Patrick's Cathedral as family, friends and fellow musicians celebrated the life of Glen Hansard, with performances and tributes reflecting the Irish songwriter's influence across generations.

The release offers an unprecedented look at the period between 1976 and 1978 when Costello transitioned from a data entry clerk writing songs on the side into a defining figure of the new wave movement. By unpacking master reels, bedroom cassette recordings, and early studio sessions, the box set documents the meticulous construction of an album that fundamentally reshaped modern rock songwriting.

John Douglas, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter with Scottish indie favourites Trashcan Sinatras, has died at the age of 63 following a brief illness, only days after the band released its first studio album in a decade, Ever The Optimist.

New Jersey artist Public Works has released the new single ‘Sunburn', the first music to emerge following the project's signing to Hopeless Records. Frontman Jacob Dietrich says the song evolved from memories of summer nights in Seaside Heights into a deeply personal account of the breakdown of a relationship.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Ann Wilson will perform four Australian shows in November as part of her Ann Wilson & Tripsitter, The Voice of Heart tour, marking her first visit to the country as a solo artist. Special guests Dragon will support the dates, which precede her appearance at Carreras & Friends in Brisbane.

ZZ Top have cancelled their scheduled Hollywood Bowl concert with Cheap Trick due to what management has described as "unforeseen personnel matters", with automatic refunds to be issued for all ticket holders.

Forty years after its release, Lionel Richie's third solo album Dancing On The Ceiling remains the final studio release from the most commercially successful period of his career, completing a remarkable run that dominated pop music throughout the 1980s.

Sixty years after its release, The Beatles' *Revolver* remains the record that transformed the band's approach to recording, redefined the possibilities of the studio and set the creative path that would lead directly to *Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band*.

John Legend has joined the cast of Bill Condon's upcoming film The Road Home, portraying the late singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte in a drama centred on Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba and the controversy surrounding Paul Simon's Graceland project during apartheid-era South Africa.

New Radicals have released their first completely new original recording in 28 years, with Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois reviving the band for the theme song to the upcoming romantic comedy One Night Only.

The St Louis progressive rock band, led by David Surkamp and joined by Iain Matthews, will present their 1975 debut album in its entirety across five Australian cities in July 2027.