Kylie Minogue, Tim Minchin and the Mona Foma festival have each won awards at the 2012 Helpmann Awards, handed out in Sydney this week.

Australian acts Alpine, The Rubens and Henry Wagons make for a great first announcement for the 2013 Laneway Festival.

A young crowd left Melbourne's Billboard The Venue on Sunday evening (23rd of September) mind blown after witnessing the exceptional set that was put on for them by English Hardcore phenomenon, Enter Shikari.

Johnny Perez, the longtime drummer for the Sir Douglas Quintet, passed away on September 11 in a Los Angeles hospital from complications of cirrhosis of the liver. He was 69.

There are two dates left in the Beach Boys reunion tour with all five members, a couple days of rest, and then the Boys will hit the road again. Unfortunately, for fans, any further concerts will only include Mike Love and Bruce Johnston.

The 10th Anniversary of Long Way To The Top will finally be unveiled at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena next week.

Pink ‘The Truth About Love’ is a certain for number one later this week in the USA with early sales indicating that the title should sell more than 200,000 copies this week.

Australian synth-pop sensation Strange Talk deliver a new single and announce US and Australian tour dates.

Grammy-winning Nashville folk/country duo The Civil Wars announce a tour of Australian churches and cathedrals.

Tommy Lee has blabbed of a joint Motley Crue and Kiss tour for Australia in January 2013.

Iron Maiden will headline Download Festival on Saturday 15 June 2013, bringing their triumphant 'Maiden England' tour to Donington Park on the 25th Anniversary of their first headline performance at the legendary home of rock in 1988 when an astounding 107,000 fans turned out to see their spectacular 'Seventh Son' show, still the highest ever attendance there.

Dinosaur Jr will be releasing the second single to be taken from their new album 'I Bet On Sky' on November 5th.

The Australian leg of Meat Loaf's Guilty Pleasure Tour will be chronicled on the new DVD of the same name, coming October 16 from Concert One, Ltd.

Dr. Conrad Murray is writing a "tell-all" book about Michael Jackson but publishers have so far told him they are not interested in the tome.

Rihanna reportedly finds Chris Brown's tattoo a "painful reminder" of the heartache he put her through.

Peter Hook And The Light are to debut their performances of the first two albums released by New Order, 'Movement' (1981) and 'Power Corruption And Lies' (1983) with two unique, inaugural London and Manchester concerts in January 2013, the first at the legendary Koko in London and the second a distinctive and special event, taking place at Manchester Cathedral.

deadmau5 learned his sense of showmanship for his live sets by watching 70s rockers KISS.

Carly Rae Jepsen misses the "overpriced popcorn" at cinemas.

The Emmy Award stunt to trick people into turning on their TV certainly worked. The term ‘OMG Tracy Morgan’ was trending on Twitter.

Linkin Park's YouTube channel 'linkinparktv' has hit the 1 billion view landmark, with their most popular video 'New Divide' currently on over 131 million views.

The new Pink album ‘The Truth About Love’ is officially the fastest selling album of 2012 in Australia with 74,293 units being sold in the first week on sale.

Green Day's management has posted a statement on the band's official site and Facebook page setting the record straight on Billie Joe Armstrong's tirade at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas.

The sale of EMI Records to Universal Music has been approved in the USA and Europe.

The surviving members of Led Zeppelin held a press conference this week in London to talk about their new concert movie 'Celebration Day'.

The Angels bass player Chris Bailey was back in the band for one song last night in Sydney.

The late George Harrison has become an Emmy Award winner.

Bee Gees legend Barry Gibb will launch his Mythology world tour in Australia in February.

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong threw a rock star sized tantrum when the Green Day set was cut short at iHeartRadio music festival in Las Vegas this weekend.

The sixth studio album for P!nk entitled “The Truth About Love” lands at No.1 this week becoming her fourth No.1 album in Australia and her third consecutive No.1 debut.

Six weeks now at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart for Guy Sebastian and his “Battle Scars”, making it the equal second longest running chart-topper for 2012 alongside Flo Rida’s “Wild Ones” featuring Sia (Jan/Feb 2012).