Platinum-rockers Killing Heidi are reported to split.

Robbie Watts, guitarist for legendary Australian pub rockers Cosmic Psychos, died after a show on the morning of July 1.

Splendour in the Grass have done what they swore they wouldn't do, and released more tickets to the general public.

Stars from last weeks B.E.T. Awards including Will.I.Am, Lil Jon and Chamillionaire have donated their swag bag to a charity auction to benefit AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

Star producer Dallas Austin has pleased guilty to charges of cocaine possession in the Middle Eastern city of Dubai.

Former Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes has a free download of ‘Unlovable' at his website and wants fans who download the song to donate to the charity Positive Kids.

Multi-award winning country rascal Adam Brand will release a new album on July 8.

The familiar shouts of ‘encore' were replaced by the repetitive drone of ‘Warnie' after Coldplay's first Melbourne show last Saturday night.

Surviving Beatles members Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney attended the premiere of the Cirque Du Soliel spectacular ‘Love' on the weekend.

Britney Spears is again considering legal action against tabloid ‘Us Weekly' after the magazine published holiday photos of the singer and husband Kevin Federline.

Guns N' Roses manager Merck Mercuriadis has had a dig at the Stockholm police, claiming the incident in which Axl Rose was jailed for a day after allegedly biting a hotel security guard was “tantamount to being held for ransom”.

Ohad Reid, a.k.a. Old Man River has announced an East Coast tour of Australia, beginning in July.

Country star Vince Gill's next album will be a mammoth 4CD set or new and original material.

Neil Young is offering artists the chance to contribute protest songs to his Living With War website, a part of neilyoung.com

Ex-pat Aussie Anne McCue has arranged a stunning line-up of guests for her forthcoming album ‘Koala Motel'.

Well-loved Melbourne gloom-rockers return with a spritely new album in ‘Desert Lights'.

Britain's Sun newspaper reports that a huge brawl erupted during a party in Berlin after their performance at the football world cup.

Ashlee Simpson had turned down a $4million offer from Playboy to appear naked in the men's magazine.

Starbucks look out, you have new competition. Kiss have opened by their first Kiss Coffeehouse, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

9 years after the death of singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley, a movie is going to be made on his life.

Six month pregnant pop star Britney Spears will show the world to motherly bulge on the front cover of Harper's Bazaar' August edition.

Nelly Furtado has made an impressive comeback with her new album ‘Loose' debuting at No. 1 this week in the USA.

The Who's upcoming performance at Hyde Park on Sunday 2 July will be made available as a pay-per-view download.

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, has added to its archive the ‘baseball' episode from Bob Dylan's show on XM Satellite Radio, ‘Theme Time Radio Hour'.

Opera superstar Luciano Pavarotti has cancelled dates in the U.K. after being plagued by back problems.

According to a message left on the band's official website, Montreal natives Arcade Fire have shackled themselves up in a studio in their hometown to record up to fifteen new songs.

The Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne has hit out at former Verve singer Richard Ashcroft for pulling out of a taping of the recently axed show ‘Top Of The Pops', according to pr-inside.com.

80s pop superstar and former Culture Club front man Boy George was been fined $US1,000 and ordered into rehab after violating his parole in March, but the only problem is... he never paid it.

Music legend Arif Mardin has died on pancreatic cancer in New York.

Former Tea Party front man Jeff Martin revealed he was asked to join the Doors of the 21st Century.