Hugh Laurie will release his second album ‘Didn’t It Rain’ in May. Noise11.com has the exclusive first listen for you to hear ‘Didn’t It rain’ now.

Melbourne’s Blackchords will head to Sydney on Friday to showcase their new album ‘A Thin Line’.

Tim Dalton, the Australian College of the Arts (Collarts) head of Creative Industries Management, will conduct the “How to Market and Promote Your Band or Music’ presentation of campus at Collarts on Wednesday evening.

Melbourne singer songwriter Hamish Anderson had a little help from some impressive friends for his debut E.P. including a member of The Wallflowers.

The Palais Theatre in Melbourne was host to what some consider one of the greatest voices in contemporary music, Josh Groban. This tour marks only the second time the American talent has hit our shores in his 12 year career.

Richie Havens, one of the veterans of Woodstock, has passed away at the age of 72.

Hoodoo Gurus frontman Dave Faulkner has paid tribute to Chrissy Amphlett of Divinyls who passed away today after a battle with breast cancer.

Iva Davies from Icehouse has paid tribute to the late Chrissy Amphlett, who lost her battle with breast cancer today at the age of 53.

The Icehouse reunion is continuing with a performance at Sydney’s Stone Fest on Sunday.

Billy Joel couldn’t wait to take the piss out of organisers of the Stone Festival in Sydney on Sunday night, often referring to his “stoner classics” and “biker songs”.

Henry Wagons and Rebecca Barnard will perform at The Heart of St Kilda Concert in May.

Chrissy Amphlett of Divinyls fame has died at the age of 53 after a two year fight with breast cancer.

“Thanks for coming. Next time bring a few friends,” greeted Midge Ure from the compact stage at the intimate Billboard venue Friday night, as he began his first Melbourne show since 1985 with ‘I See Hope (In The Morning Light)’.

Willie Nelson had scheduled a show on April 28 at the The Backyard in Austin, TX to celebrate his 80th birthday which is two days later. 

Van Halen and Aerosmith may have been yesterday’s draw card for the Stone Music Festival in Sydney on Saturday but the highlight was Kings of Chaos.

Aerosmith performed their first Australian show since 1990 at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium in Homebush on Saturday before starting their own shows with The Dead Daisies.

The Van Halen show with David Lee Roth for Stone Music Festival at Homebush in Sydney last night was the first and only time Roth and Van Halen have ever performed in Australia.

The Black Sabbath debuted two new songs at the first show on their Australian and New Zealand tour in Auckland last night (April 22, 2013).

Jon Stevens introduced a brand new Noiseworks song in the band’s set at the Stone Music Festival in Sydney on Saturday.

Jimmy Barnes delivered the hits for his performance on the main stage at Stone in Sydney on Saturday.

Michael Buble takes his eighth studio album straight into the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart this week, entitled “To Be Loved” its his fifth chart-topping album in Australia, and helps him notch up his twenty-third accumulated week at No.1 here.

Passenger sits at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a fourth consecutive week, tying “Let Her Go” as the equal longest running No.1 for 2013 so far.

You Am I has added a Hobart date for the upcoming Hi Fi Daily Double tour.

Jack Dee is a misery guts and proud of it. He wears the whinging, grumpy, Englishman tag to a tee; it bodes him well. Dee has made talking about banal daily routine an art form and centres on the worst week of his life, which started with a blown light bulb in his garage.

Margaret Cho’s show, Mother turns out to be the “mother of all bad stand up” rather than an “untraditional look at motherhood”.

Renee Geyer released her 25th album ‘Swing’ on Friday and visited Noise11 to talk about each song.

Some of Australia’s biggest artists including Russell Morris, Renee Geyer and Deborah Conway will be visiting music stores to celebrate Record Store Day Australia today.

The Sun newspaper in the UK has named Australian entertainer Rolf Harris as the ’83-year household name from Perth living in Berkshire, UK’ as the man arrested in the Operation Yewtree clean-up.

Van Halen will headline day one the first ever Stone Festival in Sydney today with a line-up also featuring Aerosmith, Jimmy Barnes and supergroup Kings of Chaos.

Here is the first new music released by Black Sabbath from their upcoming album 13.