American Idol has confirmed its new-season judges.

With a cast of original members and even the original crew, Del Amitri return from a ten year sabbatical to wheel out every hit from every era of their lengthy recording career. Justin Currie and Iain Harvie will once again be joined on stage by Andy Alston, Kris Dollimore and Ashley Soan.

The first big national hit for Motown was Money (That's What I Want) by Barrett Strong, a song that was, according to the copyright office, written by Janie Bradford and Barry Gordy....and Strong.

Little Richard, one of the original architects of the rock sound, has said that he just may retire.

Just how much money would it take to get David Bowie out of retirement from the concert stage? It looks like both AEG and Live Nation would like to find out and the answer could be in the millions.

Moby has released the official video for The Perfect Life, the first single from his upcoming album Innocents.

Celine Dion will no longer use Daniel Merriweather’s song ‘Water and a Flame’ as the title track of her new album.

Prince has suddenly released a brand new song titled ‘Breakfast Can Wait’ through independent Kolbalt Label Services.

Indie rock act Jagwar Ma and EDM act Flume have both been nominated in five categories of the Independent Music Awards.

Metallica will release the soundtrack to their 3D film ‘Through The Never’ in October and have revealed the tracklisting.

Frontier Touring boss Michael Gudinski says more Australian Bruce Springsteen shows will be announced so stay clear of scalpers.

The second volume of songs from ‘Boardwalk Empire’ features Elvis Costello, Patti Smith and Neko Case singing standards from the 1920s.

Miley Cyrus' representative has slammed a 'creatively edited' interview in which she was quoted saying she has 'so many f**king issues'.

Jon Hopkins has revealed he will be touring Australia in December, 2013.

Damian Lewis thinks being name checked by Jay Z is 'one of the coolest things that's ever happened'.

David Crosby says he will probably “piss off the government again” when he releases his next solo album.

US hip-hop artists Fabolous, Omarion and Chingy will be touring Australia from Thursday, 26th of September.

Australian band Eskimo Joe have released tour dates for their Wastelands National Tour.

Melbourne band Calling All Cars will release their new single, ‘Werewolves’ on Friday, September 6th.

The Official Charts Company has confirmed that Avenged Sevenfold scored their first ever Number 1 album in the UK yesterday with 'Hail To The King'. Despite some strong competition from Naughty Boy, Franz Ferdinand and Bob Dylan, the Orange County band raced ahead to take the top spot.

The Wanted have no interest in being 'fake' role models.

Iggy Azalea has vowed to 'surprise' the music industry.

One Direction want their next film to be a 'zombie spoof' starring a topless Niall Horan.

Laneway Festival has announced its 2014 dates for Australasia, as well as details of some notable changes to some of the festival venues.

As lead vocalist of Spandau Ballet he was responsible for part of the 80s Romantic movement with classics such as 'Gold', 'Only When You Leave', 'Lifeline, 'Through the Barricades' and 'True'.

Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Julian Lennon started The White Feather Foundation in 2007 to deal with environmental and humanitarian issues.

A group of original negatives featuring some of the world's greatest pop and rock icons is to be auctioned at Addison's Autumn Catalog Sale on Saturday, September 7.

Sir Elton John CBE was honored Monday night at the first ever BRITs Icon event which will be aired on Friday, September 13th on Britain's ITV.

Josh Burdette, manager of Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club, has been found dead from a suspected suicide. He was 36-years old.

Smiths legend Johnny Marr has been added to the Falls Festival line-up over the New Year’s long weekend.