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’.

The Black Crowes will release their first album of new songs since 2009’s ‘Before The Frost … Until the Freeze’ when ‘Happiness Bastards’ is released in March 2024.

Pretenders third album ‘Learning To Crawl’ is turning 40. ‘Learning To Crawl’ was released on 13 January, 1984. It was the first album since the death of two members, Pete Fardon and James Honeyman-Scott, who both died of drug overdoses.

Tina Knowles has revealed that she was "serenaded by Destiny's Child" for her 70th birthday.

Ariana Grande's new single has been heavily influenced by Madonna. Ariana recently announced her long-awaited return to the music scene, and Ariana's upcoming single, 'Yes, And?', has been strongly influenced by the chart-topping icon.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor is working on a new album. Sophie has revealed that she's been busily working on a new record "with a lot of top writers".

Lisa Marie Presley's memoir is set to be released posthumously in collaboration with her daughter Riley Keough.

The first ARCA release for 2024 will be an historic Anne Kirkpatrick & Alan Bowles featuring Hotspur live album recorded at the Pier Hotel in Frankston in 1987.

Since the demise of Led Zeppelin following the death of John Bonham in 1980, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant collaborations have been rare.

When Buckcherry return to Australia in September, 2024 frontman Josh Todd will be concentrating on grabbing your attention.

‘1984’, Van Halen’s last album of the era with David Lee Roth, turned 40 years old this week.

Happy birthday to Australian music legend Daryl Braithwaite, who turns 75 today (January 11, 2024).

Former Australian Crawl frontman James Reyne will begin 2024 live in Torquay, Victoria this Sunday marking 40 years since the first Australian Crawl best of ‘Crawl File’.

Dinosaur Jr will play a standalone headline show in Melbourne the night before the Tentpole festival.

Former Triumph guitarist Rik Emmett has curated a Best Of compiled from his three Duke Street releases, all released between 1990 and 1995.

WOMADelaide has announced the addition of four artists –Afrobeat luminary Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (Nigeria); tropical pop-reggae artist Hollie Cook (UK); the Mauskovic Dance Band (The Netherlands) and DJ-producer Saliah (Lebanon/UK) – expanding the line-up to an impressive 71 groups appearing at the festival in Adelaide’s Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla from 8-11 March 2024.

Just two weeks into 2024 and Sydney’s Middle Kids have a new song titled ‘Terrible News’.

Selena Gomez will play Linda Ronstadt in an upcoming biopic about the iconic singer of the 70s and 80s.