The Weezer Australian tour got underway last night, Sunday January 13, in Brisbane.

Jason Mraz will play Bluesfest sideshows around Australia as well as dates for Bluesfest, West Coast Blues N Roots Festival and the Deni Blues & Roots Festival.

The Beatles first single, Love Me Do / P.S. I Love You, has entered the public domain in Europe and small labels are already taking advantage of the situation.

The xx will return to Australia in April for more shows in bigger venues that they played on their brief two-date 2012 tour.

Black Sabbath chose January 13, 2013 to announce that the name of their new album will be ‘13’.

Counting Crows will tour Australia and New Zealand around their Bluesfest date.

Kylie Minogue has split with Terry Blamey with her manager of 25-years. The break brings an end to one of the most successful business relationships ever in the Australian music industry.

A 1974 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow has a guide price of £9,000- £11,000 in the UK. Freddie Mercury’s Roller was expected to sell for £24,000 - £28,000. It went for £60,000.

Bruno Mars jumps up a couple of places to land the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums chart with his second album “Unorthodox Jukebox” the album also gaining its second Top 10 single this week too, as “When I Was Your Man” jumped up to No.6, with the first single from the set “Locked Out of Heaven” (HP-4) dropping a few places to No.12.

Macklemore with his producer Ryan Lewis and rapper Wanz stays atop the ARIA Singles Chart for a seventh consecutive week with their now 5x(▲)Platinum certified track “Thrift Shop”.

David Bowie producer Tony Visconti has taken to Twitter to correct a story run in Pitchfork today saying that David Bowie will never tour again.

Sharon Osbourne has branded Lady Gaga an "attention seeker" and a "bully" for making comments about her daughter Kelly.

Britney Spears has confirmed she is leaving The X Factor US.

Producer Tony Visconti says his children didn’t even know that he was working on a new David Bowie album.

The Flaming Lips will be releasing their 15th studio album ‘The Terror’ in the second quarter of this year.

Film director Quentin Tarantino completely lost it in an interview with British news reporter Krishnan Guru-Murthy, refusing to answer a question about violence and telling Guru-Murthy that the interview was his commercial.

Jon Donais of Shadows Falls will play with Anthrax on their upcoming dates including Soundwave.

In a year when crowdfunding grew exponentially across the globe, music projects accounted for thousands of campaigns, including a growing local trend towards fan-supported releases.

Bob Seger is putting the Silver Bullet Band back on the road.

Tubular Bells For Two, the performance by Aidan Roberts and Daniel Holdsworth, will be performed a second time at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

Steve Howe has announced that he has left the group Asia.

B.J. Thomas has gone the duets route with his upcoming album, The Living Room Sessions, due this spring from Wrinkled Records.

Veteran artists the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen have been nominated for the 2013 BRIT Awards. The Stones are up for British Live Act while Springsteen received a nod for International Male Artist.

News reports about Elton John and David Furnish welcoming a second child are false.

Beyonce Knowles has reunited with Destiny's Child to record a new track.

Seattle's Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, who have owned the top of the Australian singles chart with 'Thrift Shop' for the past month, are just one of the acts added to SXSW 2013.

More Australian showcases have been announced for SXSW 2013 with 360, The Audreys and ME! added to the list.

The Angels’ co-founders John and Rick Brewster and Chris Bailey have issued a heart-felt statement following the news of singer Doc Neeson’s brain tumour.

Justin Timberlake will have new music soon. How soon I soon? Well its 7.18pm Melbourne time as I write this. If you are in Australia, it will be released before you wake up tomorrow.

Psy will make his commercial debut this February when Wonderful Pistachios features him in their Super Bowl ad.