After knocking Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds from the top of the Australian chart earlier this week, Hillsong United has surpassed the Bad Seeds to become the hottest Aussie act on the American chart this week.

The SXSW Music Festival and Conference in Austin, Texas next week has announced the members of Depeche Mode will be a featured interview.

Kiss returned to Melbourne last night with yet another performance of one of the greatest rock shows on Earth.

Randy Blythe of Lamb of God is a free man. Blythe has finally been cleared of all manslaughter charges following the death of a fan in 2010.

Abba’s Agnetha Faltskog will release her first song since 2004 next week.

Metallica wrapped up their Soundwave appearances in Australia with their final show last night in Perth.

Melbourne’s Blackchords will head to North America this week for showcase performances in the USA and Canada.

The Warrnambool Red Hot Summer Tour featuring Jimmy Barnes has been cancelled because Jimmy will be performing with Bruce Springsteen at the Hanging Rock shows.

Blue Oyster Cult have added their own headline shows for Sydney and Melbourne as well as their co-headline performances for Dig It Up.

1973 was quite a year for music, including the beginnings of two classic rock bands, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company.

Benji Madden has splashed out $1.1 million on a new home in Los Angeles.

Will Smith's son Jaden is reportedly dating reality star Kylie Jenner.

Robbie Williams is thinking about getting a new cat after losing his to Liam Gallagher.

Mark Lindsay, former lead singer of Paul Revere and the Raiders, has released a new single, Like Nothing That You've Seen, which will be part of an upcoming LP.

The Angels used the podium at their Clipsal 500 appearance in Adelaide on the weekend to announce a benefit concert for their bass player Chris Bailey who was recently diagnosed with cancer.

On May 6th Cooking Vinyl are proud to present 'the minutes', a new album by world-renowned musical icon Alison Moyet, who has achieved sales of more than 20 million, both as a solo artist and half of influential duo Yazoo. 'the minutes' is to be preceded by the single 'When I Was Your Girl' on 1st April.

Adele would 'blow everything out of the water' for her family, it has been claimed.

Pete Townshend recently lost it at an Ontario, Canada performance of the Who's Quadrophenia after spotting a sign in the crowd he found offensive.

The band Montrose was formed in 1973 when guitarist Ronnie Montrose decided to leave the Edgar Winter Group.

Iggy & The Stooges will play SXSW in Austin next week for the House of Vans showcase at Mohawk on Red River.

Dave Grohl will roll out the Sound City Players for a showcase appearance next week at SXSW in Austin, Texas but prepare for a mess. Citi cardholders have been given priority to the show.

Mercury Award winning Alt-J will head back to Australia with a venue upgrade to their headline shows.

Metallica have played a different show on every Soundwave show so far and the Adelaide show on Sunday still had a few surprises.

The Neil Young & Crazy Horse introduced a brand new, never before played live song at their first Australian show in Perth on Saturday night.

Ed Sheeran will release the follow-up to his award winning ‘+’ next February.

We're now less than two months away from the 6th annual Record Store Day, which will be held this year on Saturday, April 20.

Legendary music producer Phil Ramone has been hospitalized in New York City after suffering an aortic aneurysm.

Next Friday night is the official wide opening for the film Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey, the story of how Arnel Pineda went from singing in a Philippines based Journey cover band to fronting the real thing.

Back before he was Dr. Noah Drake on General Hospital, Rick Springfield had a fledgling music career that included the number 14 hit Speak to the Sky (1971).

Eric Clapton is currently 67. If he holds true to his new promise that he will stop touring when he is 70, then we have just three more years to enjoy Eric's guitar virtuosity live in many parts of the world.