Aussie musician Shannon Noll has been mentioned in the Cash for Tweet controversy, unveiled this week via ABC TV show Media Watch.

Platinum-selling R&B group TLC announce that they’ll tour, bringing the late Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes back to life on the big screen.

Missy Higgins has been announced as a speaker for Song Summit 2012.

Melissa Etheridge has added another gig in Brisbane, and says “It’s going to be a long show!”

Listen to Marilyn Manson team up with new best bro Johnny Depp on a cover of Carly Simon’s ‘You’re So Vain’.

The new Jason Mraz album ‘Love Is A Four Letter Word’ is officially his highest debuting album on the Billboard chart.

Modern Family stars Ty Burrell and Julie Bowen will host this year's Billboard Music Awards.

Brian May and Roger Taylor's touring salute to Queen, The Queen Extravaganza, opens on May 26 in Quebec. With the performing band made up of artists who were selected through an on-line screening process, the tour attempts to duplicate the music and live experience of Queen.

On February 11, 1964, two days after their earth-shattering appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.

With all the "I'm in"/"I'm out" talk over the last year or so, I'm not sure anybody thought they would see the day when a new Beach Boys song, featuring the surviving members, would be released.

The public has been invited to the studio of Levon Helm in Woodstock, NY on Thursday to celebrate the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members life and work. Helm died on April 19 after a battle with throat cancer.

Paul McCartney’s reissue of ‘RAM’ will come 41 years to the day after the original release.

The world premiere of Cat Stevens ‘Moonshadow’ musical will happen in Melbourne, Australia is May.

Australia’s music world will gather tonight in Byron Bay for a fund-raiser for Mi-Sex keyboard player Murray Burns, who suffered a stroke three songs into the bands set at A Day On The Green.

George Michael has finished work on his "best dance record ever".

Willie Nelson has unveiled a statue of himself along Willie Nelson Boulevard in his hometown of Austin last Friday (April 20).

Billy Bryans of Canada’s power-pop group The Parachute Club has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 63.

Florida’s Cannibal Corpse will be back in Australia in October touring off the back of the new album ‘Torture’.

Songwriting legend Paul Kelly joins a stunning line-up to support Melbourne music store and venue Pure Pop Records.

The Beach Boys cheer their anniversary – and the radio – with their new ultra-harmonic, radio-praising single.

Cult rock icon Barry Adamson reschedules his Australian tour for September.

Steve McDonald from ‘90s alternative power pop heroes Redd Kross tells Noise11 about their new album.

Oddball pop chanteuse Kimbra will release a tour edition of Vows with six extra tracks.

Alt-metal innovators Deftones are back in the studio recording their seventh album and will tour with SOAD.

Singer Sinead O’Connor has cancelled her 2012 tourdates, saying she’s “very unwell” due to her bipolar disorder.

Crooner Neil Diamond has married for the third time; the lucky lady is his manager Katie McNeil.

Epic Canadian rockers The Tea Party reunite for an Australian tour in July.

Almost a third of Madonna ticket buyers haven’t bothered redeeming their free copy of MDNA.

A “family situation” has caused Scottish punk legends The Exploited to cancel their Australian tour.

Beloved balladeer Missy Higgins joins Gotye on stage, delivers a new clip, and announces her first national tour in five years.