English rock band Toy will tour Australia in June.

Cyndi Lauper will mark the 30th anniversary of her ground-breaking ‘She’s So Unusual’ tour by performing the album in its entirety on tour n Australia from August.

Australian singer/songwriter Vance Joy has signed with Atlantic Records in the USA.

U.S. Metalcore band Our Last Night have covered Adele’s theme from the last James Bond film ‘Skyfall’.

Willie Nelson has turned 80 and U2 decided to mark the celebration with the release of a previously unseen video of the song ‘Slow Dancing’ featuring U2 and Willie Nelson.

The Pet Shop Boys will release their twelfth studio album (and second within a year), Electric, on July 15/16 via their new label X2.

The members of Manic Street Preacher are such huge British Lions rugby fans that they have scheduled Australian shows around the British teams Australian football matches.

In early April, Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham told a concert crowd that the band would be releasing new music "in a few days."

ZZ Top is the latest artist to get the box set treatment featuring their entire catalog from their time with Warner Brothers.

Tool’s Adelaide show for tonight has been postponed as fans were gathering to see the band at AEC Arena.

The Eagles have announced a new series of eight dates for their History of the Eagles Tour.

Hey Willie Nelson, happy 80th birthday.

Wendy Matthews is the latest addition to the Fanfare Records family, Robert Rigby’s record label.

Last week the latest Michael Buble album “To Be Loved” debuted at the top of the ARIA Albums chart with Gold sales. This week the album holds for a second week at No.1 and is now newly certified Platinum (▲) in sales.

Passenger 'Let Her Go' stays atop the ARIA Singles Chart for a fifth week, becoming the longest running No.1 single for 2013 (so far).

Black Sabbath performed the world premiere of a new song ‘Methademic’ at their first Melbourne show at Rod Laver Arena on Monday night.

When Abby Dobson appeared on The Voice a few weeks back it proved that judges Delta Goodrem, Seal, Joel Madden and Ricky Martin couldn’t pick a hit voice when it was presented to them.

Applications to showcase at BIGSOUND 2013 have been extended for two more weeks.

There are so few great rock and roll bands still around but for one of the great rock shows of all-time you really need to see Aerosmith.

Aerosmith bass player Tom Hamilton has pulled out of the Australian tour due to health issues and returned home to the USA.

The Happy Mondays Australian tour has been postponed until June. The reformed Happy Mondays line-up was due to start their Australian tour in Brisbane this Friday.

The Rolling Stones prepared for the start of the 2013 leg of the ’50 and Counting’ tour with an intimate gig at the Echoplex Club in Echo Park on Saturday night.

After 50 years British Paints has dropped Rolf Harris from its future advertising campaigns.

The Troubadour is not the place where you would normally expect to see a performance by Rod Stewart, but that's the venue he played to a small crowd of 300 on Thursday night.

Michael Buble ‘To Be Loved’ remains at number 1 on the ARIA chart and has been certified Platinum this week in Australia after two weeks.

Passenger stays at the top of the ARIA chart for a 5th week becoming the longest running single for 2013 so far with ‘Let Her Go’.

Baz Luhrmann has struck a deal with Jack White’s Third Man Records to release an expanded vinyl edition of ‘The Great Gatsby’ soundtrack.

Regine Chassagne and Win Butler of Arcade Fire are new parents to a baby boy.

Record Store Day has been declared a success after music sales for independent record stores across America were up 59% on the previous week and up 3% on the same day last year.

Two Australian legends Little River Band’s Beeb Birtles and singer/songwriter Brian Cadd wrote their first song together this week.