Walter Trout’s medical traumas have been well publicized over the last few years – his liver failure and eventual transplant and his own musical diary of the darkest and lightest points of it all in his last album Battle Scars – one of the strongest and most emotive albums he has ever released.

Gibson Brands has announced it has appointed guitar superstar Slash as Global Brand Ambassador, the first such designation in the company's history.

Melbourne’s Creamfield’s has added Dutch duo Showtek to it's 2017 line-up.

NZ's Marlon Williams has released a new song 'Vampire Again'.

Denver DJ David Mueller has been found guilty of groping Taylor Swift and must now pay the pop star $1 in damages.

The Marysville community will welcome its third Jazz and Blues festival in October.

Music icon Prince has been posthumously honoured with his own custom shade of purple by officials at the Pantone Color Institute.

Thirty Seconds to Mars have teased a sampler for their new song ‘Walk On Water’, the first taste of their first album since 2013.

London’s The xx will return to Australia for shows in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney in January, 2018.

Nile Rodgers has never missed a concert in his life until Sunday (August 13) night.

Just as Steve Hackett leaves Australia a few Genesis production is coming to town.

There was not much hope that the Eagles would play together again after the death of Glenn Frey in January of 2016 but the Classic East and West Festivals and the addition of Vince Gill and Frey's son, Devon, have added new life to the band.

Madame Tussauds, the world-renowned wax attraction, opened its latest location in Nashville in April, but they officially revealed their new Tim McGraw and Faith Hill wax figures at Bridgestone Arena August 5th prior to the sold-out Soul2Soul show.

Sydney’s The Dead Love has a new song ‘Sugarcoat’.

Meg Mac will headline Port Macquarie’s Festival of the Sun in December.

Music sales figures for anything not called Sheeran were atrocious in Australia last week but the true picture was even uglier when you take away the mask.

2017 The Voice winner Judah Kelly has stiffed in its second week with less than 900 sales last week and the full two-week tally short of 3,500 sales.

Ed Sheeran is now up to week NINETEEN at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart with his third album and third No.1 "÷ (Divide)".

It's now a thirteenth straight week at No.1 for "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee with guest vocalist Justin Bieber, becoming the second longest running No.1 this decade and this century.

Deadmau5 has married his long term girlfriend Kelly Fedoni on Saturday (12Aug17).

Grammy Award winner Neil Diamond is celebrating his unparalleled career spanning 50 years with his current 50 Year Anniversary World Tour, and when the music icon performs the final U.S. show of the tour at the Fabulous Forum on Saturday, August 12, it will mark the 35th concert at the Forum for the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, the most any artist has ever performed at the legendary venue.

Charlottesville, Virginia native Dave Matthews has joined the growing list of celebrities sickened by the drama at a white supremacy rally in the city on Saturday (12Aug17).

Collectors from around the world raised their paddles to bid in hopes of going home with a piece of Elvis history at the “Auction at Graceland,” which took place at the new Guest House at Graceland Theater during the 40thAnniversary Elvis Week commemoration, with items selling for over $1.6 million.

Glen Campbell was laid to rest on Wednesday (August 9) according to a post by his family on Facebook.

Tupac Shakur's 1996 Hummer is back up for sale after the winning bidder failed to come up with the cash.

Troy Cassar-Daley has picked up the Artist of the Year award at the National Indigenous Music Awards as well as also scoring Album of the Year for ‘Things I Carry Around’.

Bruno Mars has donated $1 million (£773,000), the proceeds of his Michigan concert on Saturday night (13Aug17) to the Flint water crisis fund.

The legendary Canadian recording studio Le Studio (Morin-Heights) where classic recordings by The Tea Party, The Police and The Bee Gees were created, has been destroyed by fire.

Roger Waters has an opinion of Trump and its, “he is supremely dumb. He is a nincompoop. He kind of professes that publicly with his tweets and the way he behaves”.

The Village People are warning Australian fans about ‘The Village People’.