Outspoken right-wing rocker Ted Nugent is at it again, telling the Republican GOP candidates to “buy a box of scrotums”.

The Port Fairy Folk Festival has announced John Butler as its Artist of the Year.

The Playground Weekender Festival due for Wisemans Ferry in New South Wales this weekend has been cancelled due to floods.

Detroit’s Sufjan Stevens is the first act announced for Vivid LIVE in Sydney in May.

The Jacobsen family will be under the spotlight of the ABC’s Family Confidential tomorrow evening.

Celine Dion has cancelled her next two months of gigs in Las Vegas under doctor’s orders.

Children Collide have announced the departure of drummer Ryan Caesar just a month away from the release of their ‘Monument’ album.

Glossy Sydney pop trio Radio INK offer a new single and video before their support of Danish pop champs Aqua.

Trippy rock unit The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Danish duo The Ravonettes plan an Australian visit.

Tickets for Radiohead’s Australian tour have already hit eBay, for more than quadruple the original price.

Tasmania’s MS Fest has been cancelled due to low ticket sales, acts pulling out, and a bad weather forecast.

Australian music legend Billy Thorpe died on this day in 2007.

Sydney’s Come Together announces an all-Australian hip-hop line-up, with 360, Horrorshow, Hermitude, Koolism and more.

Bon Iver has released the latest video for ‘Towers’ just prior to the Australian tour.

Local hip-hop hero 360 books national dates as ‘The Flying Tour’ with Gossling, Hermitude and Bam Bam.

New Order have chosen the special guests to support their Australian tour.

Bad blood may finally be behind former Runaways members Cherie Currie and Lita Ford, at least according to a post made last week by Currie on her official Facebook page.

On Friday night, an incredible group of musicians and artists came together to salute the late Hubert Sumlin at Harlem's Apollo Theater.

Mick Jones, founder and guitarist for Foreigner, undergone what has been called "urgent" heart surgery.

In an interview, electro artist Santigold has said the success of “joke band” LMFAO makes her cry.

Garage-rock nutters Black Lips have added another Melbourne show and upgraded Sydney.

The seminal punk rock the Sex Pistols have inked a deal with Universal U.K. for the release of an expanded edition of their album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.

Bruce Springsteen will be bringing the E Street Band to Austin to perform at SXSW ahead of the start of the world tour the following week.

The Australian Music Industry was still hammered by piracy in 2011 but the good news is that sales are starting to stabilize.

Peter Noble has unveiled the final announcement for Bluesfest 2012 with John Fogerty added in for a second performance at the festival on Monday April 9.

Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit has used the stage at Soundwave to mouth off at the promoters for the Big Day Out, calling them “fucking assholes”.

Muse are using a horn section on their next album.

Beloved post-punk trio My Disco book four shows in April and reveal their first video.

Keith Richards joined Eric Clapton onstage at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem for a benefit concert in the name of the late Hubert Sumlin to raise money for the Jazz Foundation.

Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees is back in a London hospital undergoing more treatment for liver and colon cancer.