Eddie Van Halen's death has been confirmed as a stroke, brought on by pneumonia and multiple cancers.

Jessica Mauboy will head into 2021 as a Warner Music artist.

Justin Bieber is making a last-minute bid for a U.K. Christmas number one after teaming up with the NHS Trust Choir to re-record his hit Holy.

Dolly Parton will debut a perfume as part of a collection with Edge Beauty next year.

Live music is returning to Melbourne with Regional Touring announcing Rock The Bowl on 12 February at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

The impact of Covid-19 on the American live music industry is expected to top $30 billion across 2020 alone.

AC/DC's "Power Up" album remains the No.1 selling set in Australia for the fourth consecutive week, the longest run at the top by a local act since April of 2015.

Duncan James, Lee Ryan, Simon Webbe and Antony Costa are keen to reunite for the band's 20th anniversary next year, and they're eager to get plans in motion as soon as the coronavirus crisis eases.

Elton John has collaborated with a number of different artists this year but the most important for him was playing piano and lending vocals on ‘The Pink Phantom’ for Gorillaz’ latest project 'Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez' because he enjoyed working with the frontman so much.

Alice Cooper has a new song ‘Our Love Can Change The World’.

AC/DC have clocked up a further million YouTube views with the video for ‘Demon Fire’ this week.

American country music legend Charley Pride has become a victim of the Covid-19 pandemic. Pride is dead at age 86.

Lil Wayne is hoping for leniency in his federal weapons case after pleading guilty to a possession charge.

Beyonce's eight-year-old daughter Blue Ivy Carter has officially been credited as a Grammy Award nominee for her contributions to the R&B superstar's Brown Skin Girl video.

In March 2020, just prior to Covid placing live music on hold, Moving Pictures played a startling set at the Toronto Hotel in New South Wales. It was one of the last live shows of 2020 before the lockdown. It is now the live album ‘Under The Palms’.

For her ‘Such Pretty Forks In The Mix’ EP, Alanis Morissette has debuted a new remix video for ‘Reasons I Drink’.

The Royal Melbourne Hospital Scrub Choir is going viral again. This time it is with the Christmas song ‘We Wish You’.

Dua Lipa virtually received her Billboard Women in Music honour from one of her heroes, U.S. politician Bernie Sanders, on Thursday night.

Britney Spears has teamed up with the Backstreet Boys for new song Matches.

Yungblood 'Weird' is no 1 in the UK. Racking up 39,000 chart sales – with 91% of its total made up of pure sales – Weird! comfortably leads this week chart, finishing ahead of Together At Christmas by Michael Ball & Alfie Boe at Number 2.

The Avalanches third album ‘We Will Always Love You’ has been released and so has a new video for ‘The Divine Chord’ featuring MGMT and Johnny Marr.

Taylor Swift has released a surprise new album ‘Evermore’, her second album this year.

Guitarists Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden and Richie Kotzen of Poison have teamed for a new side-project Smith/Kotzen.

A collection of covers by Chris Cornell has popped up on streaming services. ‘No One Sings Like You Anymore’ features Cornell’s covers of songs by Guns ‘N Roses, Prince, Nilsson, Janis Joplin, John Lennon and others.

Muddy Waters’ son Joseph ‘Mojo’ Morganfield has died at after collapsing at his home in Waukegan, Illinois. He was 56 years old.

Diners in Degraves Street in Melbourne last night were treated to an impromptu performance by Daryl Braithwaite.

Happy Christmas from The Teskey Brothers. A brand new video for ‘Highway Home For Christmas’ popped up today.

Sampa The Great has won Music Victoria Awards for Best Song, Best Solo Artist, Best Album and Best Soul Funk Gospel or R&B Album at the 2020 Music Victoria Awards.

A new Toots & The Maytals video for ‘To You’ features footage the final footage of Toots Hibbert in the studio prior to his death from Covid 19 on September 11, 2020.

12 December 2020 will mark the 40th anniversary of the release of the now classic ‘Sandinista’ triple album by The Clash.