Metallica celebrated their 30th anniversary on the weekend with some shows at the Fillmore in San Francisco and the celebration continues with the release of Beyond Magnetic – a four song EP of songs you probably haven’t heard.

Roger Daltrey will perform Tommy in Australia, presented by Noise11.com, and pre-sale tickets will go on sale tomorrow for 24 hours.

Sinead O’Connor is gearing up for the release of her ninth studio album.

Amy Winehouse’s father Mitch has quashed plans for a biopic by refusing to authorise her music.  

Music executive John Atterberry has died after being shot in the face during a Hollywood rampage last Friday.

Leading up to her New Year’s Eve shows at Luna Park, pop diva Wynter Gordon tells us that Skrillex has been giving her vocal advice.

The UK’s angriest punks, The Exploited, return to Australia and New Zealand.

A picture of the Coachella poster for 2012 has appeared online, featuring Radiohead, No Doubt, Foo Fighters and more.

Radiohead fans will score a couple of new songs next week. The band have two new songs ‘The Daily Mail’ and ‘Staircase’ next week.

The Meredith Music Festival has turned 21 years old with another dusty year of killer music and hazy memories and Noise11 were there to soak it all in.

Pharrell Williams and Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer will work on the 2012 Academy Awards.

Adele, Ke$ha, Elvis Costello, QOTSA, Sting, and scores more appear on Amnesty International’s four-disc, seventy-five-song Bob Dylan cover collection.

‘Somebody That I Used To Know’, the Aussie hit song by Gotye featuring Kimbra has landed in the Top 10 in Germany.

Tommy Emmanuel and Damien Leith recently popped into the studio for a whirlwind two-hour recording session and have now delivered their first Christmas collaboration ‘When A Child Is Born’.

Nick Littlemore reveals that he’s currently working on the second Empire Of The Sun album in New Zealand.

LA indie-pop sensation Foster The People deliver a ‘Don’t Stop’ video featuring Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe.

YouTube sensation Lana del Rey has added booked Melbourne and Sydney dates for 2012.

Leo Sayer has recorded a brand new song for Christmas about the troops stationed overseas during the break.

Death has turned out to be a great promotional campaign Amy Winehouse whose ‘Lioness: Hidden Treasures” debuted at no. 1 in the UK today.

Primal Scream and MC5’s 2008 team up at London’s Meltdown Festival finally hits DVD.

Michael Bublé holds number one while The Black Keys and Amy Winehouse disappoint on this week’s chart.

Nick Cave’s Grinderman played their last ever gig last night (December 10, 2011) at the Meredith Festival outside Melbourne.

The condition of music executive John Atterberry is listed as critical after he was shot in the face in a random shooting on Friday.

Hip-hop magnate Russell Simmons, co-founder of Def Jam Records, visited the Occupy LA site recently and is now in Sydney for the Global Leadership Forum.

The Beatles have released a free eBook version of ‘Yellow Submarine’ through iTunes.

Tickets for the Yes and Earth, Wind & Fire sideshow, presented by Noise11.com, will be available tomorrow (Monday, December 12, 2012).

Madonna has debuted ‘Masterpiece’, the song she will feature in the forthcoming movie ‘W.E.’.

Peter Frampton will mark the 35th anniversary of his Frampton Comes Alive album by returning to one of the venues where parts of the album were recorded where he will perform the entire album.

Aussie pop heartthrob Cody Simpson has been turned into a doll.

Dan ‘Bee’ Spears, the bass player for Willie Nelson, has died near Nashville at the age of 62.