Florence Welch is heading to Broadway after writing the songs for a new musical version of The Great Gatsby.

Eminem once spent $600 (£430) on a cassette copy of Nas' studio debut album Illmatic.

Midnight Oil have won the 2021 APRA Song of the Year and Cold Chisel have also grabbed an award for Most Performed Rock Work.

The Basics, the Victorian band featuring Wally De Backer (Gotye), Kris Schroeder and Tim Heath, have announced they will tour no more.

James’ 16th studio album is coming June. ‘All The Colours of You’ sees the UK band with a new label Virgin and new publishing deal with Kobalt.

Serj Tankian has publicly applauded U.S. President Joe Biden for breaking with precedent and officially recognising the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

Ronnie Wood secretly battled cancer for the second time during lockdown.

Alex James has hinted Blur could perform at the Big Feastival.

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is set to embark on a spoken word tour.

Janet Jackson will celebrate the 35th anniversary of her acclaimed LP ‘Control’ with a series of NFTs.

Adelaide is taking its Adelaide Guitar Festival annual. After usually happening every two years, the Adelaide Guitar Festival set for July will be the first annual event.

Counting Crows last album was ‘Somewhere Under Wonderland’ in 2014. Today Counting Crows have released their first new music since then.

APRA AMCOS will head to Tamworth, Wagga Wagga, Dubbo, Wollongong and Byron Bay for ‘The Regional Sessions’, a one-day songwriting event.

Country legend Marty Stuart has covered a rare Willie Nelson song from the 60s for his next album ‘Songs I Sing In The Dark’.

Billie Eilish has christened her second album ‘Happier Than Ever’.

Van Morrison claims he’s had a “very negative reaction” for exercising “freedom of speech” in his songs.

Mac Miller's estate has announced the release of the upcoming tome, 'The Book of Mac: Remembering Mac Miller'.

Pre-Covid The Soul Movers had the luxury of making music wherever they wanted in the world. Covid kept them limited to Sydney in 2020 and the end result, ‘Evolution’, worked out just fine.

Boom Crash Opera’s ‘Kick It Out Live’ tour will feature an all-new setlist including songs never played before, songs rarely played before and a stack of hits. They will also support themselves with an acoustic set at the start of each show.

American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon died “under-appreciated” and “a complicated genius” according to Henry Wagons.

Sir Tom Jones is on course for his first UK Number 1 album in two decades with Surrounded By Time.

The Nike shoes Kanye West wore during his performance at the 2008 Grammy Awards has sold at auction for $1.8 million.

A US Court has thrown out another claim by Wade Robson against the Michael Jackson estate calling the Robson claim frivolous.

Denis Walter has tapped into the Brian Cadd catalogue to record a new version of Cadd’s classic John Farnham hit ‘Don’t You Know Its Magic’.

Three months after The Doors released their classic ‘L.A. Woman’ Jim Morrison was dead. The album was Morrison’s final record with the band but according to guitarist Robby Krieger, Morrison was in a great mood while they made the album.

H.E.R., Dernst Emile II and Tiara Thomas are Oscar winners. The Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2021 has gone to the movie ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ for the song ‘Fight For You’.

The music for the Disney hit ‘Soul’ has earned Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross an Academy Award.

Jerry Burgen, a one-time member of 60’s folk group We Five, has died at age 76.

Jimmy Barnes will tour his all new homegrown family album ‘Flesh and Blood’ inbetween Red Hot Summer seasons in July.

UK group London Grammar land their first ever No.1 album in Australia this week as their third studio album "Californian Soil" debuts at the top here and in their homeland.