Philip Israel’s Possum will release the 70s Bob Hudson classic ‘The Newcastle Song’.

Perth blues guitarist Dave Hole, who was released in the USA by Chicago based Blues label Alligator Records, has recorded a song with Datura4, the current band for The Stems’ Dom Mariani.

Ellen Foley is planning on performing a couple of Clash songs at her upcoming show in New York.

Aimee Osbourne, the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, has survived a fire in a Hollywood studio. However, music producer Nathan Avery Edwards has perished in the blaze.

Florence + The Machine score their fourth UK Number 1 album with Dance Fever this week.

Kendrick Lamar's fifth studio album titled "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers" enters at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart this week.

Phil Jamieson of Grinspoon has another solo song ‘Trouble’.

Gang Of Youths were special guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week (but without Jimmy Kimmel.

You have to go back 14 years to the last new music from Chicago (that wasn’t a Christmas song).

Weeks before music industry legend Glenn Wheatley passed away from Covid, he co-incidentally decided to record at audio book version of his 1999 best-seller autobiography ‘Paper Paradise’.

Dog Trumpet have addressed the madness of society today in one of the most powerful protest songs you will hear in a long time called ‘Fucking Idiots’.

Melbourne’s Smith Street Band have a nasty case of the flu from within and have called in sick for their Sydney and Newcastle shows this weekend.

Melbourne ‘Phantom’ Josh Piterman has shared the first of the new music he was working on during Lockdown. ‘Caruso’ is a song written by UK songwriter and producer Steve Anderson for Josh.

Shane Nicholson has been sidelined again after catching Covid for a second time.

Pet Shop Boys have vowed never to return to Russia until Fascism is dead.

Dave Matthews has called out America’s racism issue, its weakness with gun laws and the hate fueled speech of Fox News hosts in stoking those fires.

Folk singer Bob Neuwirth, an associate of Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Kris Kristofferson, has died at age 82.

Greek composer Vangelis has died in France at the age of 79.

Hugh Jackman has rejected a rumour suggesting Justin Timberlake is replacing him in The Music Man.

An official Elton John documentary is in development.

Lil Nas X will be honoured at the Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony in June.

Alanis Morissette has recorded a meditation album.

Hanson will be back in Australia and New Zealand in November.

Benjamin Moore of Blind Boys of Alabama has died at age 80.

Popstar Cody Simpson has qualified to compete in the Commonwealth Games swimming championships.

Mackay’s first Legends on the Lawn has been moved to August following Jimmy Barnes being diagnosed with Covid.

‘Honky Chateau’, Elton John’s fifth studio album from 1972, has turned 50 years old.

A new version of ‘God Save The Queen’ by Sarah Brightman and Alfie Boe could give Queen Elizabeth II a number one in the UK in coming weeks.

The Beatles’ Peter Jackson doco ‘Get Back’ has had a release date, which changed, which was indefinitely postponed and now its back on again.

Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith and Pearl Jam's Matt Cameron have apologised to the Foo Fighters for comments they made about Taylor Hawkins in a recent article.