Berry, New South Wales will play host town to the all-new Big Country music festival starring Lee Kernaghan in May 2019.

The Weeknd has announced he is behind a business initiative to support start-up companies. HXOUSE will content creative from all areas of the music industry.

Missy Elliott has become the first female rapper to be nominated for the 2019 Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Hip-hop star Drake has customised one of his tour outfits to honour the memory of a sick superfan who died before they could reunite.

One Direction's video for What Makes You Beautiful has become their first promo to crack the one billion views milestone on YouTube - seven years after its release.

Kylie Minogue will play her first ever A Day On The Green shows in Australia in March.

Mavis Staples will release her first live album ‘Live In London’ in a decade in February.

Steve Kilbey will release a solo album ‘Sydney Rococo’ in November.

Peking Duk will perform at Neon Lights in Singapore this week joining the already announced Interpol, Cigarettes After Sex, YUNA, Caribou, The Vaccines, Sticky Fingers, Rhye, Shame, Bodega, Phum Viphurit, Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band, Sobs and Riot !n Magenta.

Perth band Psychedelic Porn Crumpets will head back to the UK in February.

Mondo Rock will tour again in 2019. Ross Wilson, Eric McCusker, James Black and Paul Christie together with Gil Matthews on drums, have set aside August 2019 for shows in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia.

David Gray and Lukas Nelson + Promise of the Real will play Bluesfest sideshows in April.

Neil Young has once again taken to task American President Donald Trump for using his song ‘Rocking In The Free World’ at his rallies but admits there is nothing he can do about it.

Brett Griffin (aka Spod) is the man behind the new Regurgitator video ‘I Get The Internet’.

Demi Lovato stunned and thrilled her Instagram followers on Tuesday (06Nov18) by sharing a photo of herself voting.

A concert movie Aretha Franklin spent years keeping off the big screen is to be released three months after her death.

Ariana Grande has been named Billboard's Woman of the Year.

Netflix has announced it has commissioned a remake of the classic Watership Down with Sam Smith signed up for new theme song.

The estate of Prince has started a weekly series of rare videos produced between 1995 and 2010.

Duran Duran is sending the USA a message with a confronting new video for their 1988 song ‘The Edge of America’.

Rapper Mac Miller died of an accidental drug overdose.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' birthday celebrations came to an abrupt end early on Monday (05Nov18) after disturbing his Los Angeles neighbours with his wild party.

Mel B has confirmed the "very exciting" news that the Spice Girls are reuniting for a U.K. tour.

Spandau Ballet are back for a mini tour with three dates in Italy, two in Holland and one in London, primarily I presume to introduce their new singer Ross William Wild after the departure, definitively this time, of Tony Hadley.

Demi Lovato has reportedly left rehab after completing a three-month drug treatment programme.

It is very difficult to review an album such as this – it’s one where you either ‘get’ her message or don’t and if you do get it then this will have a life-changing and incredible emotional reaction on you.

Rapper Iggy Azalea is celebrating her freedom after parting ways with her record label bosses.

25 Years and Counting... Counting Crows latest tour has seen them play 40 sold out dates across the U.S alone. To conclude, a headline slot at London’s O2 Arena to close BluesFest 2018.

Liam Anderson, the 26-year old son of Gary ‘Angry’ Anderson of Rose Tattoo, was murdered his best friend 20-year Mathew Flame of Narraweena in Sydney on Sunday morning (4 November 2018).

To be in the room with Dionne Warwick is to be in the room with greatness. For almost half of the 20th century Dionne Warwick was the poster girl for American soul and gospel with arguably only Aretha Franklin coming close to her talent.