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Brett Cottle
Brett Cottle Set For His Final APRA AMCOS Awards After 28 Years

The 2018 APRA AMCOS Awards will have a different feel to it this year. It will be Brett Cottle’s final event after 28 years of leadership.

February 22, 2018
Lorde, Photo By Serena Ho
BRIT Awards 2018 The Complete Winners List

The BRIT Awards were held in London on 21 February with New Zealand's Lorde picking up Best Female Solo International Artist.

February 22, 2018
Sade - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Sade Is Releasing Her First Song Since 2011

Sade is returning to the spotlight with an original song for director Ava DuVernay's fantasy film A Wrinkle in Time.

February 22, 2018
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Is The Latest “Rock Star” Added To SXSW

Bernie Sanders has been announced as a speaker at the SXSW conference in Texas in March and Hillary Clinton will be touring Australia. Have politicians become the new Rock Stars?

February 22, 2018
Marc Almond
Soft Cell To Reunite To Say Goodbye

Soft Cell, the duo of Marc Almond and Dave Ball, are reuniting for a single show which will also be their swan song.

February 22, 2018
Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins, Photo Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo
Billy Corgan is Through Talking About D’arcy Wretzky

As far as Billy Corgan is concerned, he is done with the debate over why D'arcy Wretzky is not being included in the Smashing Pumpkins reunion.

February 22, 2018
Carmen Pavlovic of Global Creatures
Australia’s Global Creatures Company Has Five Productions For 2018

Australian company Global Creatures will have five shows in production around the world in 2018.

February 21, 2018
The Who, Pete Townshend. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Pete Townshend Expands Solo Album ‘Who Came First’

In October 1972, Pete Townshend released his first solo album, Who Came First, a collection of demos and previously released material.

February 21, 2018
Dallas Frasca Hitch To The Sticks
Hitch To The Sticks Festival Is 3 Days 50 Punters 1 Bus and Whit Crane

Australia’s newest music festival Hitch To The Sticks might also be Australia’s smallest music festival with only 50 tickets to go on sale.

February 21, 2018
Kesha
Kesha Cancels Australian Dates Including Bluesfest

Kesha is no longer coming to Australia in March.

February 21, 2018
Australian Music Prize
AMP To Recreate AC/DC Flatbed Truck Moment In Melbourne

The 13th AMP Shortlist artists Sampa The Great, HTMLFlowers and Darcy Baylis will perform outside Arts Centre Melbourne on a back of a truck recreating the iconic AC/DC moment in the iconic ‘It’s A Long Way To The Top’ video from 1976.

February 21, 2018
Gene Simmons, Kiss. photo by Tim Cashmere
Kiss Are Nearing ‘The End Of The Road’ (Again)

The KISS fan community is in an uproar today (February 19) after word came out that Kiss Catalog, Ltd., the organization that owns the intellectual property rights for everything Kiss, has filed a patent application for the phrase "The End of the Road".

February 21, 2018
Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka Is The Latest Star To Announce His Retirement At 79

Add Neil Sedaka to the long list of artists who are hanging up their touring shoes this year.

February 21, 2018
The Piano Guys
The Piano Guys To Tour Australia

The Piano Guys will perform in Australia for the very first time from September.

February 21, 2018
Thom Yorke, Radiohead, Photo: Ros O'Gorman
Radiohead Reveal 2018 Dates

Radiohead are returning to North America for another short tour to promote their 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool and the 2017 expanded reissue of OK Computer.

February 21, 2018
Todd Rundgren, Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo
Todd Rundgren Is Reforming Utopia

Todd Rundgren has reformed Utopia for two-month tour from April to June.

February 21, 2018
Jeanne Pratt launching the 2014 season of The Production Company, Photo By Ros O'Gorman
The Production Company Announces It’s 2018 Season

Melbourne’s theatre crown jewel The Production Company has revealed the three shows for the 2018 season.

February 20, 2018
Machine Head
Machine Head Will Tour Australia In July

Just days after Machine Head cancelled dates in the USA the metal band has announced an Australian tour.

February 20, 2018
Love Simon
Two Aussies Amy Shark and Troye Sivan Feature On ‘Love Simon’ Soundtrack

Amy Shark from the Gold Coast and Perth’s Troye Sivan both have songs placed in the new movie’ Love, Simon’.

February 20, 2018
Fergie. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Watch Fergie Completely Destroy The National Anthem At Game (WARNING: It’s Hideous)

Fergie was slammed on Twitter for her sultry, jazzy take on The Star-Spangled Banner as she performed the National Anthem at the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday (February 18).

February 20, 2018
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton To Tour Australia and New Zealand

Hillary Clinton will appear in a series of speaking engagements in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland in May.

February 20, 2018
Billy Joel, Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo
Billy Joel To Play His 102nd Madison Square Garden Show

Billy Joel just keeps the tour buses rolling.

February 20, 2018
Little Sammy Davis
R.I.P. Little Sammy Davis 1928-2018

Blues singer Little Sammy Davis, whose blues career was interrupted for two decades only to come back and become a close musical associate of Levon Helm, died on Friday (February 16) at a nursing home in Middletown, NY at the age of 89.

February 20, 2018
Harry Connick Jr, Noise11, Photo
Harry Connick Jr Is Heading To Broadway After Talk Show Ends

Harry Connick, Jr.'s talk show, Harry, will come to an end after two seasons.

February 20, 2018
LaToya Jackson
LaToya Jackson Enlists Psychic To Find Out About Michael’s Death

LaToya Jackson has been given a little more closure surrounding the death of her brother Michael after calling on the talents of a top TV psychic.

February 20, 2018
Bonnie Raitt, Deni Blues & Roots Festival, Noise11, Ros O'Gorman, Photo
National Guitar Museum To Award Bonnie Raitt Lifetime Achievement Award

The National Guitar Museum has announced that Bonnie Raitt, one of the most accomplished guitarists of the past 50 years, will receive its annual Lifetime Achievement Award. Raitt is only the eighth recipient of the award.

February 20, 2018
DMAs
DMA’s Drop The Video For New Song ‘In The Air’

Sydney’s DMA’s have dropped the new video for ‘In The Air’ ahead of the release of their second album ‘For Now’ in April.

February 19, 2018
Ed Kuepper
Brisbane Names Ed Kuepper Park After A True Saint

The City of Brisbane has recognised the achievements of punk pioneer Ed Kuepper by naming a park after him.

February 19, 2018
Muse play Rod Laver Arena 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Muse Start Talking Up Next Album

Muse were guests on Matt Wilkinson’s Beats 1 show where they discuss global politics, their Beatles tribute band, doing a film score, their favourite director, living in LA, wanting to live in Tokyo and more.

February 19, 2018
Machine Head
Machine Head Cancel Shows

Machine Head are down two shows after lead singer Robb Flynn came down with a "severe throat infection".

February 19, 2018