Metallica have released the video recap of the second night (December 7) of their 30th anniversary show series in San Francisco.

Details are few at this time but it has been announced that two classic rock icons, Chris Squire and Steve Hackett are joining forces in a new band called Squackett.

Morrissey has vowed his music career on a major label is over.

Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick Jermaine Jackson and Larry King have recorded a Christmas song together. Yes, I said Larry King.

The Age journalist Karl Quinn has published an explosive article on Australian promoter Andrew McManus.

The Richard Wilkins book ‘Black Ties, Red Carpets, Green Rooms’ was the biggest selling book of the year for New Holland Publishers.

Andy’s favourite music of 2011, featuring Lykke Li, Lil Wayne, Lanie Lane, Lana Del Rey… and that’s just the ‘l’s.

An untitled and previously unheard Radiohead song from the mid-90s appears to have surfaced online.

Actress/pop star Holly Valance is to marry property tycoon Nick Candy.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, the solo project for Orlando Dinosaur, is off the Falls Festival.

Lady Gaga tweets that she’ll put out an unreleased Born This Way track on Christmas day.

Triple J’s Tribute To Nick Cave will be broadcast on ABC2 in Australia on January 26.

Eddie Van Halen is auctioning a guitar to raise money for the charity Drop In The Bucket.

Coldplay have thanked fans for the season with a brand new Christmas song performed live in Berlin on Wednesday (December 21).

Doctors who operated on Ian Molly Meldrum today at The Alfred Hospital report the operation was a complete success.

Swedish alt-pop singer Lykke Li gives away the alternate takes online as The Lost Sessions.

Billboard has revealed the top-grossing touring acts of the year, and U2 come out on top by a long way.

Adelaide singer songwriter Sia Furler has revealed that none of her songs have made the next Madonna album despite a story circulating from a Madonna fansite today.

Miley talks rudeness, Far East Movement rock the malls, Ice Cube works out the US financial crisis, Scissor Sister Jakes Shears loves Judith Light and heaps more.

Apple founder Steve Jobs will be awarded a posthumous Grammy Award.

Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman has officially proclaimed January 2, 2012 ‘Deadmau5 Day’.

Icelandic experimentalists Sigur Ros give away the new song from Inni, ‘Lúppulagið’, as a free download.

New statistics out of the USA put a reality check back into the music industry. For starters, for a solo artist in the USA to earn the minimum wage ($1,160 per month) they need to sell 12,399 tracks on iTunes. For a group, you can divide that figure by the number of members in the band.

R&B superstar R. Kelly has come out of the closet to announce that he has 32 more episodes of Trapped in the Closet and needs funding.

Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum will undergo surgery today (December 22, 2012) to repair his broken collarbone and ribs following the fall one week ago at his Richmond home.

Rapper 360 has dropped a video for ‘Boys Like You’, featuring a Ruby Rose and Gossling love triangle.

Musician, artist and Beatle widow Yoko Ono has been chosen as 2012’s winner of Austria’s Oskar Kokoschka art prize.

Axl Rose appears to be considering reforming with at least some of the classic Guns ‘n’ Roses lineup.

The Australian Radio Network (ARN) has added Elf Radio, a 24/7 Christmas radio station to its digital channels.

David Williams, the founder of Shock Records, has left the company he founded 24 years ago.