The original and reformed Tumbleweed have been busy writing. The band has 20 new songs.

Jack Black and Kyle Gass of mock metallers Tenacious D reveal details of their third album Rize Of The Fenix.

Dan Bradley has reignited the ongoing debate over the Australian radio Australian content quota.

Post-'Black And Gold', pop prince Sam Sparro finds his groove thing during a showcase set in Melbourne.

Nimrod Antal, the director of Journey to the Center of the Earth, Journey 2, will direct the Metallica 3D movie project.

Whitney Houston’s will has been filed, leaving everything to her daughter Bobbi Kristina.

In Australia we use the saying “fair suck of the sauce bottle” as a protest against unreasonableness. Now we can say the same thing for ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons but with a totally different meaning. Gibbons has just launched his own brand of sauce.

Melodramatic Sydney indie-pop quartet The Jezabels have won this year's Australian Music Prize for their album Prisoner.

Canadian pop-punks Simple Plan will return to Australia nine months after their last visit with We The Kings.

Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) will release his Dr Dee concept album in May.

The Rolling Stones Facebook page has just gone past the 9 million fans mark and Keith Richards has posted for a picture showing off the achievement.

New York house music icon Roger Sanchez books an Australian club tour for April.

Lionel Richie will make his SXSW debut at the Billboard show at ACL Live next Wednesday in Austin.

Kylie Minogue has added another show for Sydney and Melbourne on her sudden Anti Tour tour.

Rachael Ray is having Train, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top and Jimmy Cliff over to lunch.

Vanessa Amorosi’s Zoo Twilights show, cancelled due to injury, has been rescheduled.

Indie-pop chanteuse Kimbra has announced the US release of Vows, with new songs, and a US tour with Foster The People.

The Black Keys have been honoured by their former High School by being added to the Hall Of Fame.

Comedian Arj Barker and Oz rockers DZ Deathrays parody Paul Simon in a new clip.

The old tourvan used by sludge rockers The Melvins, and featuring a KISS drawing by Kurt Cobain, is being auctioned on eBay.

The Green Day musical ‘American Idiot’ will open in Los Angeles next week.

Adelaide-via-Nashville indie-pop artist Butterfly Boucher releases her new single and announces tour dates.

Brit-rockers Arctic Monkeys release a Wayne’s World-esque video for brand new song ‘R U Mine?’

Jack White is set to headline the SXSW showcase for his Third Man label, alongside Aussie rockbilly lass Lanie Lane.

Gotye ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ exceeded 100 million views on Youtube earlier today.

El Guincho, Hudson Mohawke, Death Grips and more appear on an eight-part remix series for Björk’s Biophilia.

Previously unreleased Janis Joplin material to be released alongside live Big Brother And The Holding Company music.

Guitar wizard Joe Satriani tells Noise11 about the emotional circumstances around filming his new 3D concert film, which screens tomorrow.

British folk hero Frank Turner brings his full band, and Iowa punk troubadour William Elliott Whitmore, to Australia.

Glam punk pioneers New York Dolls have announced a new DVD, live in Manhattan.