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Garland Jeffreys To Retire From Touring

Brooklyn singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys has announced he will be ceasing to tour after his next set of dates but that doesn’t mean he will stop writing and recording.

April 10, 2019
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The Punch Brothers Reveal 2019 Australian Dates

The Punch Brothers, mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny, and violinist Gabe Witcher, will tour Australia in July.

April 10, 2019
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Taylor Swift Donates Over $100000 To Fight Anti-LGBTQ Bill in Tennessee

Taylor Swift has donated $113,000 (£86,000) to a Tennessee project fighting a series of anti-LGBTQ bills in the state.

April 10, 2019
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Ariana Grande wants to be a Cosmetics Queen

Ariana Grande is planning to launch a new perfume and beauty line named after her hit album Thank U, Next.

April 10, 2019
Madonna performs at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday 12 March 2016. This is the first show of the Australian leg of her world wide Rebel Heart Tour. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Activists Slam Madonna for her Decision to Visit Israel

Fans and activists are urging Madonna to rethink her plans to perform at next month's Eurovision Song Contest in Israel - and boycott the event.

April 10, 2019
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Nick Cave and Warren Ellis to Perform their Film Scores With the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis will upsize their backing band from the Bad Seeds to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra when they perform together as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival.

April 10, 2019
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Geoff Travis applies his Independent Past to his Folk Future

Rough Trade Records founder Geoff Travis has started a new label River Lea. The label is all about targeting people who prefer quality over quantity and would rather than listen to a physical disc than stream.

April 9, 2019
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Greg Carey Explains How He and Wade Jackson Connected with Van Duren

The story of Memphis musician Van Duren is a story next to no-one knows. That is because Van Duren never became famous. Then along came two Sydney music people, Greg Carey (manager of The Rubens) and musician Wade Jackson who set up to travel half a planet away to tell this story.

April 9, 2019
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Fleetwood Mac Postpone Remainder of North American Tour

The remaining dates for the Fleetwood Mac North American tour have been postponed after Stevie Nicks came down with the flu.

April 9, 2019
Courtney Barnett performs in the ABC Melbourne Studio Foyer celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Archie Roach album Charcoal Road. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Courtney Barnett has a new song ‘Everybody Here Hates You’

Courtney Barnett’s new song is ‘Everybody Here Hates You’.

April 9, 2019
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The Rolling Stones ‘Bridges To Bremen’ concert from 1998 is their next archives DVD

The Rolling Stones to release Bridges To Bremen concert from 1998.

April 9, 2019
Madonna, Rod Laver Arena Rebel Heart Tour. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Madonna To Perform at Eurovision

Madonna will perform at Eurovision 2019 in Israel.

April 9, 2019
Beyonce photo by Ros OGorman
Netflix Loads Up The Beyoncé Coachella Trailer

Netflix has uploaded it Beyoncé trailer for the special documenting her Coachella performance of 2018.

April 9, 2019
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John J. Francis is Alive and Well Despite Being Killed Off by the ABC

UPDATED STORY: Contrary to reports that singer-songwriter John J Francis had passed away at age 74 from a suspected heart attack, John J. has confirmed that he is alive and well.

April 9, 2019
John Paul Young performs at APIA Good Times Tour at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda on Saturday 28 May 2016. Photo by Ros O'Gorman https://www.noise11.com
John Paul Young’s Love Is In The Air Graces Will & Grace

The producers of hit sitcom ‘Will & Grace’ have used John Paul Young’s Australian classic ‘Love Is In The Air’ for the season finale episode based around Jack’s wedding.

April 9, 2019
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Billie Eilish Covered a Missy Higgins Song when she was 11-years-old

When Billie Eilish was 11-years-old she covered a Missy Higgins song ‘Secret’ and Missy just found out about it.

April 9, 2019
Normie Rowe and the Playboys perform at Memo Music Hall St Kilda on Saturday 6 June 2015. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Normie Rowe Covers 1927 to Mark 50th Anniversary of his Conscription into the Australian Army

50 years ago, Australia Prime Minister at the time Harold Holt needed to create a publicity stunt so he sent ‘Australia’s Elvis’ to war. He chose the nation’s biggest pop star at the time, Normie Rowe.

April 8, 2019
Ed Kuepper photo by Ros O'Gorman
Ed Kuepper is taking The Aints! On the Road

Ed Kuepper will tour The Aints! In June with Peter Oxley, Paul Larsen Loughhead, Alister Spence and Eamon Dilworth making up the band.

April 8, 2019
Queen and Adam Lambert perform at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Queen + Adam Lambert to bring The Rhapsody Tour to Australia in 2020

Queen + Adam Lambert have announced six stadium shows bringing The Rhapsody Tour outdoors for Australia in 2020.

April 8, 2019
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Music Victoria Membership Drive Is On Now

From Monday 8 April - Thursday 18 April, Music Victoria invite you to join them and help play an important role in continuing their vital work in keeping Victoria’s thriving music community alive.

April 8, 2019
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Will Smith is Collaborating with Billy Ray Cyrus

Will Smith has offered up his services to join rising rapper Lil Nas X and new collaborator Billy Ray Cyrus for the music video to their Old Town Road remix.

April 8, 2019
Beyonce photo by Ros OGorman
Netflix Teases Beyonce Special

Beyonce fans have been whipped into a frenzy after Netflix officials teased the release of a Coachella concert special.

April 8, 2019
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Meek Mill slams O.J. Simpson prosecutor for representing Nipsey Hussle murder suspect

Meek Mill has hit out at top defence attorney Christopher Darden for agreeing to take on rapper Nipsey Hussle's murder suspect as a client.

April 8, 2019
Keith Urban, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne 2014 photo by Ros O'Gorman
Kacey Musgraves and Keith Urban win big at Academy of Country Music Awards

Kacey Musgraves stole the spotlight at the 2019 Academy of Country Music Awards as she broke Miranda Lambert's nine-year winning streak for Female Vocalist of the Year.

April 8, 2019
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BigSound Reveals New Move For 2019

BIGSOUND is back from September 3-6 in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley Live Music Precinct, with this year’s theme revealed as ‘The Artist As CEO’.

April 8, 2019
The Angels John and Rick Brewster at Hamer Hall Melbourne photo Noise11.com
The Angels at Hamer Hall with an Orchestra? No way, get fucked, fuck off

The Angels are an Australia powerhouse. Founded by brothers John and Rick Brewster with Doc Neeson in Adelaide in 1974, two-thirds of the founding members are still about to remind us what an incredibly creative time Australian rock was in the 70s and 80s.

April 7, 2019
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Australian Charts: Billie Eilish “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” is No 1

The debut album and second entry for US teenager Billie Eilish called "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" debuts at the top of ARIA Albums Chart this week, plus it also tops the U.K. and New Zealand charts too.

April 6, 2019
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Australian Charts: Billie Eilish has no 1 song with ‘Bad Guy’

The debut album for Billie Eilish lands at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, while she also debuts at No.1 on the singles chart with "Bad Guy", landing six Top 10 berths this week and she has sixteen songs within the Top 100, how's that for a 17-year-old!!

April 6, 2019
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Rolling Stones backing singer Bernard Fowler to release Stones Tribute Album

Bernard Fowler, the backing singer for the Rolling Stones for the past 31 years, will release an album of “Rolling Stones deep cuts”.

April 6, 2019
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Avicii Estate Confirms New Avicii Album Coming

The family of Tim Bergling aka Avicii has confirmed that an album of new Avicii material will be released in June.

April 6, 2019