The last time I saw Birds of Tokyo perform most of the songs they played at Red Hot Summer they were a much bigger band. There were about 60 of them.

The Smashing Pumpkins have eight people going through 10000 applications to find a new guitarist for the band.

Two iconic albums by two contemporaries were both released on exactly the same day, January 17, 1974, exactly 50 years ago today. Bob Dylan ‘Planet Waves’ and Joni Mitchell ‘Court and Spark’ are exactly the same age.

Disturbed finally have a video for the stunning track ‘Don’t Tell Me’ with Ann Wilson of Heart from the ‘Divisive’ album, released in 2002.

Sir Elton John has become only the 19th person to win an Academy Award (Oscar), Grammy Award, Tony Award and now an Emmy Award (collectively called EGOT).

New social media and fan engagement platform FENIX360 will launch their Malaysia service in Kuala Lumpur this weekend with a live event of local artists from 4:30pm on Sunday.

The first recorded song by Graham Nash ‘Little Lover’ was released on the debut album for The Hollies ‘Stay With The Hollies’ exactly 60 years ago to this month.

Billie Eilish and Dua Lipa have been announced as performers for this year's Grammys.

LeAnn Rimes has had precancerous cells removed from her cervix.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs has settled his legal dispute with a liquor company over alleged racism.

With the first airplay charts of 2024 now coming through Perth indie act COTERIE has one of the most played songs on Australian radio at the start of the year with ‘Paradise’.

Pearl Jam are expected to announce an Australian tour for 2024 soon with dates coming for November and a headline performance pencilled in for the Adelaide 500.

Bruce Springsteen is said to have been hired as a consultant on a feature film about the making of his 1982 album ‘Nebraska’.

Ace Frehley will release his eighth solo studio album ’10,000 Volts’ in February with the title track ready to go now.

James Reyne is marking the 40th anniversary of the first Australian Crawl best of ‘Crawl File’ with the ‘Crawl File’ tour for 2024.

Idles have a video for ‘Gift Horse’, the third single from the upcoming ‘Tangk’ album.

Lia Vollack, John Branca and John McClain, producers of the acclaimed Broadway musical MJ, announce casting for the UK premiere production which begins performances at the Prince Edward Theatre, London from Wednesday 6 March 2024 (Press Night: Wednesday 27 March 2024 at 7:00pm).

While you’d never know it looking at an ARIA chart, new great Australian rock bands do exist and King Canyon are one of them.

Jon Stevens was lead singer of INXS from 2000-2003. He toured the world with the band performing a 40-city tour in North America in 2002 as well as dates in the UK and South America. Jon knows the songs of INXS just like he knows his own Noiseworks songs. For Red Hot Summer you are getting both.

The Living End constantly amaze me. Every show I have ever seen by this band is switched to 11. They are one of Australia’s last great rock bands.

What started as a last moment rushed together event at the end of 2023 has become an incredible tribute to Jimmy Barnes, and we have his daughter Mahalia to thank for it.

Shed Seven celebrate their first-ever Official Number 1 album with A Matter of Time.

The long-awaited Michael Jackson biopic will hit screens next April.

Justin Timberlake will host a free concert in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.

Anderson .Paak has filed for divorce from wife Jaylyn Chang, citing “irreconcilable differences.”

Once again, ARIA has proven itself a disgrace with a complete lack of attention to Australian artists in 2023. Not one Australian song released in 2023 made the ARIA End of Year Top 100 Singles and only one Australian album released in 2023 made the ARIA End of Year Top 100 Albums.

Sir Elton John is way out in front as the most successful live act of all-time, based on gross ticket sales.

Australian music legend Brian Cadd will spend all of February (and a bit of spillage into January and March) roadtesting songs from his upcoming ‘Dream Train’ album.

Paul McCartney’s seven sold-out shows in Australia at the end of 2023 made around $US37 million ($AUD55m).

The Black Keys have released a new song today (12 January, 2024). “Beautiful People (Stay High)” written by Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney, Beck and Dan the Automator and revealed a new album titled ‘Ohio Players’.