UK retail institution HMV will close its doors. Administrators have been called in to shut 240 stores effecting 4000 employees.

Kylie Minogue has taken to Twitter following the news on the weekend that she was quitting music.

Limp Bizkit have confirmed an Australian tour for 2013 although no dates have been announced.

Be sure to add Sean Taylor to your artists to see in Australia in March.

After announcing his music comeback last week, Justin Timberlake released his first new song in years, ‘Suit & Tie’, at midnight (New York time) today.

Pink's beloved bulldog has died.

Canadian group Men Without Hats are headed to Europe for their first tour of the continent in twenty years.

Adele has picked up her first Golden Globe Award for her theme song to the James Bond movie ‘Skyfall’.

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.