Days after Van Halen cancelled 31 upcoming shows on their North American tour a Japanese tour has been announced.

The Falls Festival line-up has been announced with The Flaming Lips, The Vaccines and Coolio on the bill.

Queen played Kiev in the Ukraine on the weekend with Adam Lambert on vocals.

US neo-soul artist Kelis reveals the new tune ‘Distance’, co-written by UK dubstep hero Skream.

Cosmic Psychos. Pub rock doesn’t get much more iconic than them. For thirty years the band have been touring relentlessly with thirteen albums under their belt and some fans in high places.

British soul-funksters Brand New Heavies return to Australia for three shows in September.

Vampire Weekend singer Ezra Koenig reveals that the band are close to having a new album written.

Don Was has produced the next Van Morrison album ‘Born To Sing: No Plan B’.

Look out for a Go-Betweens ‘Best Of’ hand-picked by Forster, Morrison, Brown and Vickers, complete with a live disc.

American YouTube balladeer Ron Pope will play Melbourne’s Chapel Off Chapel, as well as Sydney and Brisbane.

Chris Brown has taken a stab at Canadian rapper Drake in a verse he added to The Game’s remix of a Chief Keef tune.

Roots star Ben Harper will play three East Coast shows in his first headlining Australian acoustic tour.

The Vaccines Come Of Age will be the Brit-rockers second album and they’ve delivered a video for 'No Hope'.

The Living End will play each of their six albums in full in week-long residencies around the country. Wow.

Gotye has had to deny his death in a Twitter post after a comment was posted on the CNN website stating that the Australian singer had killed himself.

The Voice gave this week’s Australian chart a number of firsts and they were all bad. Never before have so many songs debuted one week and disappeared the next.

The Flaming Lips have successfully smashed the Guinness World Record previously held by Jay-Z for most concerts performed in multiple cities after a historic road trip through the Mississippi Delta region which now ranks as the most-viewed digitally driven event in Viacom Music & Logo Group history, including generating more than 43 million votes.

17-year old Melbourne singer/songwriter Natasha Duarté has signed a management deal with Australian uber-manager Glenn Wheatley.

Melbourne via Sydney via L.A.’s Tim Wheatley has just released a new double A-side ‘Hot & Heavy / Outta Sight Outta Mind’ under his guise of Crooked Saint.

The Van Halen dates postponed last month have now been officially cancelled.

Sony has paid $2.2 billion for a 50% share of EMI Publishing.

Randy Blythe, lead singer of Lamb Of God, has been released on bail following his arrest for the manslaughter of a fan in the Czech Republic this week.

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has debuted his other band the A, B, C & D of Boogie Woogie in New York City at the Iridium Jazz Club.

The Adele album ‘21’ has departed the Australian Top 10 for the first time in 15 months.

Mick Jagger has a new son-in-law. His daughter Jade married DJ Adrian Fillary in a ceremony at the Aynhoe Park hotel in the Cotswolds yesterday (June 30, 2012).

Kiss will give fans the first taste of their new album ‘Monster’ with the release of the first single ‘Hell Or Hallelujah’ tomorrow (July 2, 2012).

For all of the huge debuts that The Voice racked up last week, their presence in the Top 10 has been reduced to one song within the entire ten.

Karise Eden drops from the No.1 spot on the singles chart, but claims the new No.1 album in the country with instantly platinum certified “My Journey”, which is also the sixth consecutive No.1 debut in the past seven weeks.

A Hollywood billionaire has offered a $10,000,000 purse to Chris Brown and Drake to get in the ring and punch each other’s lights out.

Last night’s Lil’ Band O’ Gold gig in Melbourne (June 29, 2012) had a special treat when You Am I’s Tim Rogers joined the Louisiana supergroup and performed Led Zeppelin and AC/DC covers.