10,000 Maniacs have been forced to cancel their US tour because guitarist Jeff Erickson is in need of urgent back surgery.

Paul Simon will perform Bluesfest sideshows around Australia with Rufus Wainwright in March.

Red Hot Chili Peppers mixed it up a little but basically played the same show as New Zealand for their first Australian show at the Big Day Out in Sydney this evening (January 18, 2013).

Wilko Johnson, founding member of Dr Feelgood and one-time member of Ian Dury & The Blockheads, has announced four final dates before he dies.

The Peats Ridge Festival north of Sydney has come to an end. Revenues from the recent event did not cover the costs of the event and the Festival’s accountants have advised that the company be wound up.

Sunday February 17 will mark the 40th anniversary of The Rolling Stones concert in Melbourne, Australia at the Kooyong Tennis Centre.

Dave Stewart has been recording his next album at a secret location in Tahiti.

Collarts, the Australian College of the Arts, will have its next Open Day tomorrow (Saturday, January 18).

Thursday was lineup announcement day for the 2013 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and it is full of veteran artists.

The biopic of singer James Brown is moving forward with producers starting the casting process.

For the last two years, Kenny Loggins has been doing double duty, touring his own hits along with working on his new group, Blue Sky Riders.

Michael J. Fox imagines that his son would be the subject of a hit ballad if he ever dated Taylor Swift.

Destiny's Child star Michelle Williams has suffered from depression.

Britney Spears is reportedly at the centre of a bidding war over her planned Las Vegas residency.

Acclaimed Icelandic post-rocker band Sigur Rós will headline an Eden Session on Sunday June 30, one of just a few shows they will play in the UK this summer.

Lady Gaga is teaching her dog to draw.

Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello will fill in for E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt on the upcoming Bruce Springsteen Australian tour.

Soon Australian’s everywhere will be able to lick the back of Molly Meldrums’s head … and Paul Kelly, Kylie Minogue, John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John’s as well.

Ozzy Osbourne was injured in a fire at his Beverly Hills, California home on Thursday morning.

Prince has decided to play six "surprise" shows as the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis staring tonight and running through Friday with each night dedicated to a different purpose.

Sweden’s Avicii will headline the EDM stage for the Future Music Festival in Australia.

Boz Scaggs will release his first new studio album in five years, Memphis, in March via 429 Records.

Actor Conrad Bain, who played Phillip Drummond in the TV show ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ has died at the age of 89. His co-star Janet Jackson has commented.

Dido will release her fourth studio album ‘Girl Who Got Away’ in March.

Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club have contributed to a charity recording of Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Ingrid Michaelson and 21 current or former students of the Sandy Hook Elementary School, site of the December mass shooting where 26 people were killed.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have announced a series of very special events to mark the forthcoming release of their fifteenth studio album 'Push the Sky Away' out 18th February on Bad Seed Ltd.

Mark Poston, EMI Music Australia’s Chairman & Senior Vice President of Marketing, is leaving the company.

Suede have announced the release date of their brand new studio album, 'Bloodsports' on 18th March 2013.

WAITS/CORBIJN '77-'11, a collector's edition linen slipcase book limited to 6,600 copies, is scheduled for release on 8th May.

As if the world doesn’t have enough problems we hear that Kris Kross will reunite.