43 years ago Australian songwriting legend Brian Cadd and record company mogul gathering Melbourne’s most seasoned musicians and anointed them The Bootleg Family.

By the time Radiohead opens the latest European leg on their tour behind A Moon Shaped Pool, the album will already have been out for over a year.

The Blue Mountains Music Festival will celebrate its 22nd season in 2017 with an impressive line-up starting with Australia’s Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen and including the return of Folk Uke, the daughters of Willie Nelson and Arlo Guthrie.

Lady Gaga’s obsession with owning Michael Jackson’s old clothes has now grown to around 400 pieces.

Metallica’s ‘Hardwired … To Self Destruct’ album is just weeks away and a third song has been released as a prelude.

On December 5, 1975, the classic Bob Marley & the Wailers album Live! was released featuring the best-known version of their song No Woman, No Cry.

So it really looks like Oasis are reforming for 2017. They just aren’t telling you.

Sydney duo Deep Sea Arcade will kick off an Australian jaunt in December to play up their new song ‘Learning To Fly’.

30 years ago, in the summer of 87, Jimmy Barnes, INXS, Models, Divinyls, I’m Talking, The Saints and The Triffids toured with the Australian Made festival.

Bob Dylan has finally shared a few words about his Nobel Prize and by “a few” I mean literally a few.

Husky will have a new album in 2017. The first taste of the album is the single ‘Late Night Store’.

Carly Simon says her classic ‘Anticipation’ was inspired and written about Cat Stevens while she was waiting for him to come to her house for dinner.

Birds of Tokyo have released a video for ‘Empire’ ahead of their Australian tour.

The Rubens have proven to be kings of the jungle with their Twilight At Taronga in Sydney and Melbourne Zoo Twilights shows selling out fast and extra shows added to the 2017 series.

The Crowded House 20th anniversary performance from the Sydney Opera House will be broadcast live by the ABC.

Bruno Mars, producer Mark Ronson, four record labels and others involved with the huge 2014 hit Uptown Funk are the subject of a new copyright infringement lawsuit.

In a week where major new albums are out for three proven No.1 debutees like Elvis, Gaga and Buble, this week's No.1 album is the same as last week, Jessica Mauboy with the TV Soundtrack to her series "The Secret Daughter", and it achieves Gold (●) this week also.

James Arthur is not about to let go of his No.1 position on the ARIA Singles Chart, spending a third straight week at the top with "Say You Won't Let Go".

The Lakeside Twilights music festival at Ballarat’s Lake Wendouree foreshore has sold-out more than a month in advance.

Blondie and Cyndi Lauper will tour Australia together in 2017 for A Day On The Green.

The catalog of English rockers Uriah Heep is about to have a major reissue and upgrade by BMG.

Amy Schumer never intended her take on Beyonce's Formation to be considered a parody.

Beyonce's girl group Destiny's Child has raised fans' hopes of a reunion after an official Instagram account was launched in the band's name.

A Tribe Called Quest have a big following and big history, one that fan Michael Rapaport documented in his 2011 film Bests, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, but there hasn't been any new music since 1998.

Michael Jackson's ex-wife has credited their daughter Paris Jackson with helping her battle the blues amid her cancer battle.

There is little doubt that Bon Jovi is one of the biggest rock acts of the last thirty-plus years but a few of the powers that be at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame may be actively trying to keep the group out.

The always interesting and innovative Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are going out on the road next year with dates in Australia, New Zealand and North America already announced.

Roger Daltrey recently made a fairly big, controversial statement. Rock is dead, long live Hip-Hop.

Prince's camp has denied claims Jay Z made a $40 million bid to buy the rights to the late pop icon's unreleased music.

A Day On The Green will turn 400 this summer. After 16 years and 3,000,000 ticket sales, A Day On The Green will celebrate its 400th show.