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The Stranglers in Australia photo by Ros OGorman, music news, noise11.com
The Stranglers Will Return to Australia In 2023

The Stranglers will be back in Australia for 2023 for a very special tour that not only features new music but also the last music for keyboard player Dave Greenfield who passed away in 2020.

October 11, 2022
Sade - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Sade Is Recording First Album Since 2010

Sade is reportedly back in the studio working on her first new album since 2010.

October 11, 2022
Rex Orange County
Rex Orange Country Charged with Sexual Assault

UK songwriter and singer Alexander O’Connor (aka Rex Orange County) has been charged with six counts of sexual assault of a women in June.

October 11, 2022
Mark Seymour of Hunters and Collectors at Red Hot Summer Bendigo photo by Noise11
Hunters & Collectors To Play Final Shows For Red Hot Summer This Weekend

Hunters & Collectors will finish up what was meant to be a 10 week reunion but ended up going almost three years this weekend for Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer tour.

October 11, 2022
John Mellencamp photo by Ros O'Gorman
John Mellencamp Shares Scarecrow Era Song ‘Carolina Shag’

John Mellencamp has shared the previously unreleased ‘Carolina Shag’ from his upcoming expanded ‘Scarecrow’ release.

October 11, 2022
The Rolling Stones, Ros OGorman photographer, Rod Laver Arena
Long Time Rolling Stones Bass Player Darryl Jones Subject Of New Documentary

A new documentary about long time Rolling Stones bass player Darryl Jones is on the way.

October 11, 2022
Bongo Starkie at Noise11
Freddie Strauks Will Play A Skyhooks Show With Bongo This Weekend

Skyhooks’ founding members Freddie Strauks and Bob ‘Bongo’ Starkie will be back together again this weekend in Geelong for Bongo’s Skyhooks Show.

October 10, 2022
Peter O'Doherty of Dog Trumpet
Dog Trumpet’s Peter O’Doherty Can Thank Nina Simone For His 35 Years of Marriage

Dog Trumpet’s Peter O’Doherty can thank Nina Simone for playing a part in his last 35 years and he does in the new Dog Trumpet song 'Nina Simone'.

October 10, 2022
Henry Wagons photo by Ros O'Gorman
Henry Wagons Performing Surprising Duet With Daughter Casper

Henry Wagons introduced a special guest when he performed at the Out On The Weekend festival in Melbourne on the weekend. His daughter Casper joined him for a cover of Neil Young’s ‘Heart of Gold’.

October 10, 2022
Paulini in The Bodyguard. Photo Ros O'Gorman
Paulini Calls Out New Australian Idol for Lack of Diversity

Fiji born, Australian singer Paulini has called out the new cast of Australian Idol for its lack of diversity.

October 10, 2022
The Black Crowes photo from Live Nation
The Black Crowes Shake Your Money Maker Complete Album Shows Put Some Rarities In The Setlist

The Black Crowes have been performing their debut album ‘Shake Your Money Maker’ from start to finish and that means some songs that have been rarely played are back in the setlist.

October 10, 2022
Kevin Johnson
Kevin Johnson Turns 80

Australian singer songwriter Kevin Johnson has turned 80. “There is nothing much you can do about it,” he tells Noise11.com. “There is only one way of stopping it and I didn’t go down that path. Not yet anyway”.

October 10, 2022
Bush
Bush Release Ninth Album ‘The Art of Survival’

The new Bush album ‘The Art of Survival’ is the ninth for the band. Gavin Rossdale tells Noise11.com that the songs came together not long after the Australian tour earlier this year.

October 10, 2022
Roger Waters played Rod Laver Arena Melbourne on Saturday 10 February 2018. Roger Waters is performing his Us and Them Australian tour. Photo, Ros O'Gorman
Pink Floyd Catalogue Sale Delayed By In-Fighting

The sale of Pink Floyd's music catalogue has been delayed due to "months of arguing" within the band.

October 10, 2022
Beyonce photo by Ros OGorman
Beyonce Rejects Accusation of Stealing From Right Said Fred

Beyoncé has shut down a claim suggesting she sampled a Right Said Fred song without permission.

October 10, 2022
Kanye West 2012 - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Kanye West Restricted By Instagram and Facebook Over Racist Remarks

Kanye West has been locked out of two of his social media accounts over antisemetic posts.

October 10, 2022
Slipknot The End So Far
Australian Album Chart: Slipknot ‘The End, So Far’ Debuts At No 1

US heavy metal band Slipknot see their seventh studio album "The End, So Far" become their fourth consecutive No.1 Album in Australia.

October 9, 2022
Sam Smith plays the Town Hall in Melbourne at an intimate show put on by iHeart Radio, KiisFM and Optus Yes. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Sam Smith Is Heading For A UK No 1

The Official Chart: First Look offers a first glance of the Top 20 ahead of Friday’s Official Singles Chart Top 100. The chart is based on preliminary sales and early streaming reports.

October 9, 2022
Ben Harper - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Ben Harper, Angus & Julia Stone To Headline SummerSalt 2023

SummerSalt will be back for 2023 with Angus & Julia Stone, Ben Harper, City & Colour, The Rubens, Middle Kids and Alex The Astronaut.

October 6, 2022
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode Release New Album Memento Mori and Announce World Tour

Depeche Mode have released a new album ‘Memento’, their first album since 2017’s ‘Spirit’ and the first since the death of founding member Andy Fletcher.

October 6, 2022
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath photo by Ros O'Gorman
Ozzy Osbourne Gets Into The Make-up Biz

Ozzy Osbourne has his own make-up collection. Rock and Roll Beauty will distributed the Osbourne make-up known as The Ozzy Osbourne Collection.

October 6, 2022
Janet Jackson The Velvet Rope
Janet Jackson Expands The Velvet Rope For 25th Anniversary

Janet Jackson will mark the 25th anniversary of her 1997 album ‘The Velvet Rope’ with an expanded new edition.

October 6, 2022
TLC
TLC To Play One Off Australian Show

TLC will return to Australia for one show only in Melbourne in November.

October 6, 2022
Rage Against The Machine
Rage Against The Machine Cancel All 2023 Dates

Zack De La Rocha has cancelled all 2023 dates for Rage Against The Machine because of a severe leg injury. The 2023 North American tour cannot go ahead as Zack following the injury from July 11 when he was hurt during a show in Chicago.

October 6, 2022
Roger Waters played Rod Laver Arena Melbourne on Saturday 10 February 2018. Roger Waters is performing his Us and Them Australian tour. Photo Ros O'Gorman
Roger Waters Claims He Is Now On A Ukrainian Hit List

Roger Waters has claimed he's on a Ukrainian "kill list" after his comments on the Russian invasion.

October 6, 2022
Blake Shelton, music news, noise11.com
Blake Shelton Sells Music Catalogue

Blake Shelton has sold the rights to his master recordings to Influence Media Partners.

October 6, 2022
The Beatles
The Beatles ‘Love Me Do’ Turns 60

Love Me Do, the Beatles’ debut single, was released on 5 October 1962, a week that “changed the world forever”. Now, sixty years later, the song is being celebrated at the house where it was written, 20 Forthlin Road, Allerton, Liverpool.

October 6, 2022
Anthea Palmer, Founder of Jimmy Hornet
Melbourne To Lose Another Music Venue With Closure of Jimmy Hornet in Richmond

Popular Melbourne music venue Jimmy Hornet will close at the end of 2022 with venue owner Anthea Palmer citing rising costs of insurance verses the venue capacity as not a workable business model moving forward.

October 5, 2022
Lipstereo
Melbourne’s Lipstereo Chosen to Showcase To The World Via Let Me Help Children’s Charity Event

Melbourne band Lipstereo were Australia’s representatives for the Let Me Help Children of the World charity event streamed live from New York on the weekend.

October 5, 2022
Leo Sayer photo by Ros OGorman
Leo Sayer Is Back In The UK Celebrating 50 Years In the Biz

Leo Sayer has been making up for lost lockdown time in the UK with his 50th Anniversary tour now in full swing and dates set through to 12 November.

October 5, 2022