Dave Gleeson is the new lead singer for The Angels following the departure of Doc Neeson from the band.

Good Charlotte will head to Australia to perform the Weezer ‘Blue’ album for Jack Daniel’s The JD Set.

Russell Watson’s planned November Australian tour has been postponed until next February.

Coldplay’s ‘Mylo Xyloto’ has debuted at number one in America with sales of around 458,000 units, according to HitsDailyDouble.com.

Faith No More frontman Mike Patton will head to Sydney in January for the Sydney Festival.

Seal will return to Australia next February.

Legendary Celt-punk act The Pogues hit Australia for the Bluesfest and two sideshows.

The first announcement for Bluesfest includes a complete perform of The Who’s rock opera Tommy by Who singer Roger Daltrey.

Lady Gaga starts her foundation, Tegan & Sara plug an activist tee, Herbie Hancock has a doc, Blink-182 are bitter about myspace and heaps more.

Ryan Adams will be back in Australia next February for his first ever solo tour.

Folkie break-out artists Mumford & Sons have performed a new song during a radio spot.

Pop icon-turned-movie-star Justin Timberlake says his music career isn’t necessarily over.

Nickelback is the top turn-off for turning onto sex according to dating site tastebuds.fm.

Sydney Indie Punk Soul band Philadelphia Grand Jury have called it quits.

New Order have reformed minus founding member Peter Hook.

Justin Bieber has become the first person in the world to clock up over 2 billion views on YouTube.

Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead and rapper/producer DOOM release new song ‘Retarded Fren’.

Moody electro-soul-jazz newcomer Eliza Hull bewitches with atmospherics.

Foo Fighters gear up for their monster stadium tour by adding Australia’s finest up-and-comers to support.

Justin Bieber is a dad? What tha? The news doing the rounds today is that Baby Bieber might have a Bieber Baby.

The Living End’s Chris Cheney will perform at EG Awards in Melbourne to honour The Hoodoo Gurus.

Loopy Atlanta “flower punks” The Black Lips deliver festival sideshows around the country.

Ad-Rock from the Beastie Boys has written the soundtrack to an off-Broadway play written by his father.

Nicki Minaj is on a replying spree, The Bronx go arena-wide with Foo Fighters, 50 Cent has a new novel, A-Trak proposes to Kim Kardashian and heaps more.

When Roger Waters took The Wall out on tour, it's doubtful that he saw it as being a multi-year trek. He's now 120 shows in and has played for 1.6 million people and he isn't done yet.

Janet Jackson flew into Brisbane last night after cutting short her Australian tour two weeks ago to be with her family during the Dr. Conrad Murray trial in Los Angeles.

Melbourne’s Big Scary, Sydney’s The Black Ryder and Auckland’s Avalanche City are three of the first bands named to play SXSW 2012.

Island Records has scheduled what it is calling the third Amy Winehouse album ‘Lioness: Hidden Treasures’.

The Lennon & McCartney of Australian music festivals Vivian Lees and Ken West have split.

Rancid’s Tim Armstrong is releasing his new music via a webisode series called ‘Tim Timebomb’s RockNRoll Theater’.