Meat Loaf has been threatening to retire from touring for some time but, like Cher, we had stopped taking him seriously. On Tuesday, he announced his supposed final tour of the U.K. (and, supposedly, other parts of the world at a later date) with the Last At Bat Tour.

To celebrate their induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, Yothu Yindi have released a career-spanning retrospective entitled Healing Stone which includes the full-length doco Tribal Voice.

Queen guitarist Dr. Brian May isn't just known for his unique way of manipulating six strings with high tension floating above some magnets, he also knows his way around a quasar and this knowledge could see him hosting the BBC's long-running program The Sky At Night.

Columbia Records has released a highlights album from last week's 121212 concert for relief of victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Kate Ceberano will ring in the New Year with her first album of original material in 2013.

MY DISCO have had a great decade, with three albums, shows all over the world and general adulation from anyone who has seen them live and still has their hearing in tact. So what better way to celebrate than with a hometown gig?

Byron Bay’s own Parkway Drive is streaming their entire ‘Home Is For The Heartless’ DVD on YouTube.

Melbourne band King Parrot might be a little screamy for your dainty ears, but if I have my way every Australian will see this video and cringe a little bit at bassist Wayne "Slattz" Slattery's freakish portrayal of "the boss".

Mediocre critics reviews and less than stellar sales be damned. Madonna did it best this year on the concert state.

The new video by the Killers for the song Here With Me has quite a good pedigree.

Stevie Wonder has given $100,000 to a little girl battling cancer, the same child to whom Charile Sheen had also recently donated.

Melbourne’s Oh Mercy have been announced as special guests of the very first Australian tour for The Waterboys for the Melbourne and Sydney shows.

Status Quo has announced that their drummer for the last twelve years, Matt Letley, has left the group.

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas has never sounded as cool as it does when a rapper like Big Boi reads it through.

Bette Midler is "waiting for the call" to appear on Glee.

Koko, the Red Cloud Kelpie who starred in the hit Australian movie ‘Red Dog’, has died in Perth at the age of seven.

In 2006 while New Order were recording ‘Waiting For The Sirens Call’, the UK band decided to place a few songs in a time capsule, for release eventually.

Paul McCartney and the surviving members of Nirvana divided music fans last week with their performance of the new song Cut Me Some Slack at the Hurricane Sandy benefit gig in New York. Well now the argument can continue with the studio version.

Iceland’s Of Monsters And Men will continue around Australia to play on the Laneway Festival with Adelaide and Perth dates now confirmed.

New Seattle band Walking Papers had a guest appearance from Alice In Chain’s Jerry Cantrell this week.

Australian rapper 360 will be taking on America in 2013.

The annual VH1 Divas concert was held Sunday night at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles with a host of artists performing including Kelly Clarkson, Ciara, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Kelly Rowland, Jordan Sparks, Pitbull and host Adam Lambert.

Ok, what can you say about The Jam that hasn’t been said, time and again, over the years. They were, and probably are, the quintessential Mod/Punk band. They were one of the greatest bands in any genre of all time.

Dave Grohl has shot down rumours he is planning a Nirvana reunion tour. The musician was the drummer in the US grunge band, with Krist Novoselic on bass and the late Kurt Cobain on guitar and vocals.

Carrie Underwood is donating proceeds from her botched concert in Des Moines, Iowa to charity.

The inquest into Amy Winehouse's death is to be reheard.

Thinking of heading down to Marion Bay, Tasmania for The Falls Festival this new years? Well there are only 500 tickets left, so you had better snap them up quick!

For those of you wondering if Morrissey will turn up in Australia, well he made it to New Zealand.

As we come to the end of 2012, it's time to look back at the biggest records and artists of the year and the authority on all such things is Billboard.

Carole King will be the 2013 recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.