Gene Simmons of Kiss is now the proud recipient of the Charles Durning Patriotism Award.

Britney Spears will headline the 2014 Ambassador Class for VH1 Save The Music Foundation to showcase the importance of music education.

Soul queen Aretha Franklin has honoured designed Marc Jacobs in New York with a performance of her classic ‘R.E.S.P.E.C.T.’

In an attempt to bring the Sunset Strip to Las Vegas, Mötley Crüe frontman, Vince Neil, will open two new Las Vegas venues, Vince Neil's Tatuado Eat-Drink-Party and Vince Neil's Party Bus Bar.

X-Factor runner-up Taylor Henderson debuts at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart this week with his debut original single “Borrow My Heart”, which achieves Gold (●) in sales in its first week of release.

The eighth studio album for Eminem entitled “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” becomes his seventh No.1 album in Australia.

The Beatles, that up and coming new boy band out of England, lead this weeks new music releases.

Alanis Morissette is set to join the ranks of Queen, Abba, Green Day and Carole King with a Broadway show based on her music.

Lorde is on a mission to save the music world. The New Zealand teenage hit maker wants to make pop music less "shameful".

For the past two days the WAM music conference and festival has focused the Australian music industry on Perth and today the city opens up for all music fans.

Perth’s Tame Impala were the major winners of the WA Music Awards scooping up four gongs for Group of the Year, Single of the Year, Albert/EP of the Year and Music Video of the Year.

Singapore band The Sam Willows have recorded a song with U2/Rolling Stones producer Steve Lillywhite.

Human Nature have recorded a Christmas classic with Motown legend Smokey Robinson.

Models will release their first album since 1986 in 2014.

Dave Stewart has launched his online TV show ‘The Ringmaster’ through U.S. network BiteSizeTV.

Elvis Costello & The Imposters and Boz Scaggs have joined the line-up for the Deni Blues & Roots Festival in Deniliquin in April.

The Western Australian Festival music conference kicked off today in Perth with a keynote address from former Magic Dirt singer Adalita and tomorrow respected concert promoter Michael Chugg will tell his tales.

The controversial Redfern Now has been nominated for three APRA Screen Music Awards.

Kings of Leon will perform a one-off show at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre and because of the small capacity additional measures have been taken to avoid scalping.

Australia’s iconic alt-rock band The Sunnyboys will get back together for a tour next March and a new Best Of.

Joey Molland, one of two of the surviving members of Badfinger, has a new album coming.

For their final two shows of their US tour, Nine Inch Nails enlisted industrial music icon Gary Numan for support duties.

To celebrate the rerelease of their seminal album, ‘Tommy’, in both Deluxe and Super Deluxe versions, The Who have created ‘The Who Game’, giving fans the opportunity to unlock an exclusive live track.

Erykah Badu will perform shows in Sydney and Melbourne as well as her Bluesfest dates in April.

Mary Hopkin,best known as one of the first artists to sign with the Beatles' Apple label and for her hit Those Were The Days, will release a new record in 2014.

Slayer will release ten vinyl reissues of their classic albums on December 10.

The Musician's Hall of Fame and Museum has had a rough few years. First, they lost their space after the building in which they were housed was marked for demolition for a new convention center. Then, the Nashville flood of 2010 damaged or destroyed much of their collection of memorabilia and rare instruments that they had placed in storage.

Australia’s The Dead Daisies are continuing to have an impact at UK radio just prior to their first English tour later this month.

Robert Rigby, one of Australia’s most successful independent record label operators, has been appointed Executive Manager of The Voice for Universal Music Australia.

Yoko Ono has released an all-star video for her new song 'Bad Dancer'.