In celebration of the 50th performance of Rod Stewart: The Hits, Rod today announced that he will extend his original two year contract at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace and will return with his critically acclaimed show for two more years beginning this fall.

Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen, along with producer William Orbit, are in the midst of working on tracks recorded by Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury in the early 80's.

Singer songwriter Matt Corby will head out of what he is calling his “biggest headline tour” across Australia in October.

Metallica’s 3D feature film ‘Through The Never’ won't contain any new songs.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Wrecking Ball tour has won Best International Contemporary Concert while Neil Finn & Paul Kelly have won the award for Best Australian Contemporary Concert at the 2013 Helpmann Awards.

Menangle, New South Wales own The Rubens will tour the United States in September and October with Grouplove.

For day two of Fuji Rock in Japan, Jonny O'Hara reports on Bjork, Foals and The Bawdies for Noise11.

Leonard Cohen will spend a month in Australia and New Zealand in November and December on his biggest tour of the countries ever, including A Day On The Green dates.

American pop punk band All Time Low will feature different Australian support acts on their upcoming Aussie tour.

Beyonce has added a further four shows for Australia for ‘The Mrs Carter Show World Tour’.

California garage rock and soul band The BellRays will return to Australia in November.

Muse will perform a second show for Melbourne after tickets for the first sold out in minutes after going on sale this morning.

Fall Out Boy will return to Australian in October for shows with British India.

Karnivool’s ‘Asymmetry’ sold 15,176 copies in Australia last week making it the forth fastest selling album of 2013 and the second fastest selling Australian album for first week sales.

Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the federal government will establish a National Office for Live Music with high-profile musicians appointed as ambassadors for each state.

J.J. Cale has died from a heart attack at the age of 74.

Karnivool and Birds of Tokyo lead singer Ian Kenny has described 2013 as a “nutball year” after become the first artist ever to debut at number one in two different active bands in the same calendar year.

2013 is shaping up to be the best year for No.1 albums by Australian acts this decade, as the eighth local act to hit the top are Karnivool, who take their third album “Asymmetry” straight in at No.1 on the ARIA Albums chart this week.

Fuji Rock Festival ’13 kicked off in the same vibrant, bright and respectful fashion that was so endearing at last year’s edition.

Avicii holds on for a fourth week to the No.1 spot in Australia with “Wake Me Up”, whilst OneRepublic are also in a holding pattern of No.2 with “Counting Stars”, the track now achieving Platinum (▲) in sales.

Today (July 27, 2013) marks the first anniversary of the death of Darryl Cotton.

Ian Kenny, lead singer for both Karnivool and Birds of Tokyo, has become the first person ever to debut at number one in two different bands in the same year on the Australian chart.

New Zealand singer songwriter Ella Yelich-O’Connor aka Lorde is the last minute addition to Splendour In The Grass, filling the gap created by the ailing Frank Ocean.

Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder never goes anywhere without an Australian 50 cent piece in his pocket.

Frank Ocean has cancelled all remaining shows on his Australian tour including this weekend’s performance at Splendour In The Grass.

Between November 5 to 10, 2011 Rick Springfield, Darryl Cotton, Beeb Birtles and Rick Brewer reformed Zoot for the first and last time.

Mick Jagger turned 70-years old today and after 50 years still has the same job he had when he was 19.

Eric Burdon will not be appearing with the Israeli band Tislam at a show in northern Israel after receiving threatening e-mails.

Peter Gabriel will finally complete his Scratch My Back project, which he started in 2010.

Nick Cave will deliver a keynote address at the Bigsound music industry conference in Brisbane in September.