Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman has passed away at the age of 49.

The 2013 Australian Jazz Bell Awards were handed out in Melbourne tonight with David Ades picking up two awards and Marc Hannaford winning Most Original Jazz album Award.

Australian jazz legend James Morrison was inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame at the Australian Jazz Bell Awards held in Melbourne on Thursday night.

Dorothy Bell, the widow of Australian jazz great Graeme Bell honoured her late husband at the11th annual Australian Jazz Bell Awards held in Melbourne tonight (May 2, 2013).

US talk show host Conan O’Brien has been celebrating Willie Nelson’s 80th birthday week with a few fun things and a few musical things.

25,000 Splendour In The Grass tickets told within one hour of going on sale today (May 2, 2013).

Kris Kross rapper Chris Kelly has been found dead in his home in Atlanta at the age of 34.

Melbourne singer songwriter Clare Bowditch will host the 2013 APRA Music Awards with Jonathan Biggins in June.

Rapper Coolio will return to Australia in June. He will play dates in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Hobart on the upcoming tour.

Black Sabbath debuted ‘Loner’ at their second Melbourne show last night (May 1, 2013). It was the 4th new song from the upcoming ‘13’ album to make the setlist on their current Australian and New Zealand tour.

Promoter Paul Dainty has announced that tickets for Australian leg of the Bon Jovi ‘Because We Can’ tour will start at $35.

The Bon Jovi Because We Can will reach Australia in December.

Two Australian acts, Kloke and Julien Love, both from Melbourne, have been selected to attend the Red Bull Music Academy in New York City.

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.