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.

The Bridge Hotel in the Victorian town of Castlemaine has new owners operating the business and new owners of the building, with the intention of turning it into a live music venue.

The Prince Bandroom’s future has been in doubt recently, but today The Melbourne Pub Group confirmed that it will continue its newly acquired pub as a live music venue.

Kanye West had one of his fans thrown out of a gig in Tacoma, Washington because he threw his business cards on the stage.

San Franciscan indie band Geographer are back with the follow up to their debut, Innocent Ghosts released all the way back in 2008 and they’re giving away a track to remind you of their soothing pop beats.

Mötley Crüe lead singer Vince Neil says he’s “seriously thinking” about quitting the band following their Las Vegas residency.

Red Hot Chili Peppers are done for 2011 and here is their final setlist for you to check-out.

Animal Collective’s main man Panda Bear (a.k.a. Noah Benjamin Lennox) has revealed a new video that will leave you staring at your screen in a state of hypnosis.

Yes will showcase ‘Fly From Here’, their first album in a decade on their forthcoming Australian tour and also cover the classic years dating back to the early 70s and ‘The Yes Album’.

Dave Sitek of TV On The Radio has remixed Florence + The Machine’s ‘No Light, No Light’.

St. Vincent, a.k.a. Annie Clark is planning a trip to Sydney that will take in Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this March.

Roger Daltrey’s forthcoming Australian shows may be the last time Australia gets to see The Who legend perform live.

Swedish indie act Miike Snow deliver the first song from their forthcoming second album.