Sir Bob Geldof is going to be a grandfather. His daughter Peaches is pregnant.

Adam Ant has cancelled his upcoming US tour and postponed the release of his new album.

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has had a successful eye operation.

The Doors will unveil a previously unreleased song for the very first time on their Facebook page on Monday.

Paul Stanley has dropped Kiss fans info on 6 of the songs that will appear on the upcoming Kiss album ‘Monster’.

Barbara Nicks, the mother of Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks, has passed away in Arizona at the age of 84.

Van Halen performed at the tiny New York venue Café Wha on Thursday night played a very old unused song expected to be on the new album.

Yesterday Noise11.com reported Jason Derulo had suffered a fractured next while rehearsing for his upcoming tour.

Following his work with Loretta Lynn and Wanda Jackson comes news that Jack White is working on a new record for Tom Jones.

Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl has teamed up with members of 80s metal band Ratt for a new project.

Hardcore rock heavyweights Hatebreed, Cro-Mags, Biohazard and HellYeah team up for two Soundwave sideshows.

Sales for the Adele ‘21’ in the USA last year are stagging. The ‘21’ album accounted for 5.1% of all new release album sales during 2011.

Legendary music manager Doc McGhee is now directing the career of new Hollywood band Vintage Trouble.

The Music Managers Forum Australia is returning for the 15th year running with a great selection of panels for managers and artists alike.

The Van Halen tour will begin in Louisville, Kentucky on February 8, 2012.

Nickelback respond to the Black Keys, Ice-T vomits too early, Converge get the “idiot shivers”, The Strokes get an award for selling out, and heaps more.

The new Van Halen album will be called …

The Hall & Oates return to Australia will be a reunion of sorts for John Oates with Iva Davies of Icehouse.

Your guide to the definitely, probably, and possibly of artists releasing new albums this year.

The Big Day Out have launched their free iPhone app for 2012 with some nifty new features.

Aqua will return to Australia in March.

Metallica’s ‘Metallica’ is still the biggest selling album of the past 20 years but The Beatles ‘1’ is moving up the ranks.

Luke Pritchard from Britpoppers The Kooks tells Noise11 their ersatz feud with Arctic Monkeys is all sorted.

Dee Snider of Twisted Sister will appear on the 5th season of The Celebrity Apprentice along with Debbie Gibson and Clay Aiken.

Patti Smith has written a song about the late Amy Winehouse which will appear as a tribute on Smith’s next album.

Universal Music maintained its position as the biggest music label of 2011 but it was close.

Katy Perry was the most played artist on radio of 2011, according to Nielsen BDS.

Rock was the biggest music genre of 2011 earning 105,685,000 album sales for the music industry.

Despite the doom and gloom written about music retail 69% of all albums sold in America in 2011 were through retail outlets.

Rihanna has sold more digital tracks than any other artist.