Rock icons Jimmy Barnes, Paul Kelly and Nick Cave have received the Officer of the Order of Australia honours as part of the 2017 Australia Day list.

Butch Trucks, who played drums for the Allman Brothers Band from 1969 to 2014, died Tuesday in West Palm Beach, FL at the age of 69. No cause of death has been announced.

Television icon Mary Tyler Moore has died at age 80.

All four currently scheduled shows for Paul Stanley's side project, Soul Station, have been cancelled after the KISS member suffered a concussion while skiing.

George Michael "really kept people out" during his final years, according to pal Boy George.

Insane Clown Posse has been talking about putting together a march in Washington since last summer but recent events have triggered firming up of plans.

OfficialCharts.com has confirmed that in the month since his passing, over half a million records by George Michael have been sold and streamed across his Wham! and solo work, as fans reflect on the icon's impressive catalogue.

Another Sydney music venue is to close when the Newtown Social Club shuts in April.

Neil Diamond has added a bunch of new dates to his almost forty North American shows already scheduled for "The 50 Year Anniversary World Tour".

Spiderbait have announced their supports acts for the Ivy and the Big Apple tour in March.

Pond have released ‘Sweep Me Off My Feet’, the first taste of their concept album ‘The Weather’, due in May.

Rodney Crowell’s famous friends Sheryl Crow and Rosanne Cash will join him on his next album ‘Close Ties’.

Billy Bragg has written new lyrics for Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a Changing to reflect the current times.

Wyndham City will host a series of free music events in February with Pseudo Echo and Charles Jenkins headlining some shows.

The planned Janis Joplin biopic starring Amy Adams is no longer being developed.

A lot of people think that the Zombies' Odyssey & Oracle was released in 1969 because of the heavy airplay that Time of the Season received in that year but it had actually been issued over a year earlier in early-1968.

Don’t go looking for Glenn Hughes to be the changeling. He is one of the best vocalists rock music has ever had – the voice of rock – and his audience want him to be the Glenn Hughes they have grown up with and love like demons. And he is happy to deliver just what they want.

Ronald "Bingo" Mundy, one of the original members of the Marcels, died on Friday from pneumonia at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA at the age of 76.

While it is doubtful that they can beat the juggernaut that is La La Land, both Sting and Justin Timberlake have been nominated in the Best Song category at the Academy Awards.

Three years ago, Capitol Records released All-Time Greatest Hits, a compilation of Neil Diamond's biggest hits and album tracks that went to 14 in the U.S., the highest one of his many hits packages had ever gone.

Singer Chris Brown has blasted comic Aziz Ansari for poking fun at him during his Saturday Night Live hosting stint over the weekend.

Rapper Soulja Boy pleaded not guilty to two felony gun possession counts on Monday and will return to court next month to fight the charges.

Bliss N Eso have released a statement following the death of actor Johann Ofner, who died on Monday in a “workplace accident” while filming a video for the trio.

Courtney Barnett has joined the Bluesfest line-up by personal request from Patti Smith.

Daryl Braithwaite has had to cancel more shows this week on doctors orders because he is “making slow progress”.

John Mellencamp has released his first new music in 2-1/2 years with the new song Easy Target.

Ray Davies' first new album in over nine years, Americana, will be released on April 21 via Legacy Recordings.

Jaki Liebezeit, the influential German drummer from the band Can, died on Sunday (January 22) after suffering from pneumonia. He was 78.

It's a big week for New Edition as their three-night biopic premieres tomorrow on BET and they received their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Joey Powers, who hit the U.S. top ten in 1964 with Midnight Mary, died on Friday at Washington Hospital in Washington, PA at the age of 82.