Ben Harper’s next album will be the solo work ‘Winter Is For Lovers’, featuring 15 songs performed on Ben’s Monteleone lap steel guitar.

Toots and the Maytals singer Toots Hibbert has been hospitalised in an intensive care unit with suspected COVID-19.

Music Victoria has been nominated in the top three Best Global Music Offices in the inaugural Music Cities Awards.

Miranda Lambert leads the 2020 Country Music Association (CMA) Awards nominations.

Akon has suggested that people facing racial injustice could move to the futuristic city he plans to build in his parents' native Senegal.

Burt Bacharach says recording new music during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a "lifesaver" for him.

Ed Sheeran has welcomed his first child with wife Cherry Seaborn.

Irish singer songwriter legend Luka Bloom recorded his first three albums under his real name, Barry Moore. 65-year old Luka doesn’t care too much for who 23 year-old Barry was.

Ross Wilson has created a Spotify playlist so that you can enjoy the music from his home Jukebox.

Jefferson Starship have covered a Jefferson Airplane song on their new album.

Leisha Jungalwalla and Cat Leahy from This Way North have introduced their new star Hector the van for the new video ‘Driving Roads.

Lady Gaga urged people to wear face masks as she won five gongs at the first ever socially distant MTV Video Music Awards 2020.

For the past seven years country star Amber Lawrence has been visiting schools and performing free concerts for primary school children.

Oasis were crowned the Kings of Britpop on Bank Holiday Monday on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds as Britpop Top 50 with Jo Whiley counted down the UK’s 50 best-selling Britpop songs of the 90s.

BTS, the South Korean boy band, have become the first Korean act to top the US singles chart. They did it with ‘Dynamite’.

A full list of winners at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards are as follows:

The annual Reading and Leeds music festival was cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it has now been confirmed the event - which takes place on the August Bank Holiday weekend in both Reading and Leeds simultaneously - will be going ahead next year, with a host of big names already on the bill.

Kendrick Lamar has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over his Rihanna collaboration, LOYALTY.

Cher has taken to Twitter to accuse the people behind Britney Spears' conservatorship of treating Britney like a 'cash cow'.

The director behind ‘Use My Voice’ the new video for Evanescence, is Eric D Howell, who has worked on ‘Voice From The Stone’.

Fremantle’s San Cisco will do something Victorian bands can only dream about this week. Have an album launch show with an actual live audience.

Neil Young has recorded Bob Dylan’s ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’ for his next release, ‘The Times’ EP.

The John Lennon catalogue is going through another upgrade. 2020 mixes of his classics are on the way.

Representatives from the estate of Leonard Cohen are "surprised and dismayed" after they "specifically declined" Republican Party officials' request to use his song Hallelujah at their National Convention.

Mick Jagger was careful to do his homework before starring in his new movie The Burnt Orange Heresy because he felt rusty after two decades away from acting.

BBC Radio 6 Music's Matt Everitt chatted with Sir Elton John about Record Store Day on Mary Anne Hobbs’ show.

The Weeknd is keen to write a whole album for a female artist to balance out his past misogynistic lyrics.

The Killers see their sixth studio album called "Imploding the Mirage" become their third No.1 album in Australia this week, while the set also becomes their sixth consecutive #1 in England (a first for a non England based band).

Leo Sayer has written one of his most poignant songs ever with a message for Melbourne ‘My City In Lockdown’.

Those poor Lemon Twigs. There they were, ready to bring out a new album, with a release date of 1st May and a bunch of shows booked across North America. And then, 2020 happened.