The Alice Cooper shows in Melbourne and Brisbane have been upsized.

Summersalt is a new outdoor music event set to debut this November.

The short list has been announced for the Polaris Music Prize and it contains two veteran artists, one who recently passed away and one who is terminally ill.

Here is the second line-up announcement for the Queenscliff Music Festival.

Kid Rock has once again expressed his intention to run for the U.S. Senate with a rambling statement on his website.

Cheap Trick are really on a tear lately in the recording studio.

There's no stopping the Ed Sheeran album "÷ (Divide)" from leaving the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart this week, notching up its sixteenth overall week at the top.

For a ninth straight week the song "Despacito" has claimed the top spot on the ARIA Singles Chart for Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber, plus the song is once again at the top in England, Ireland, America, Canada and New Zealand, and returns to the top of the Digital Sales chart here after one week off, and retains its No.1 streaming position too.

Chris Wong Won, who was known as Fresh Kid Ice as a member of the band 2 Live Crew, died earlier today (July 13) in a Miami hospital at the age of 53. He had suffered from a number medical problems over the years including strokes in 2009 and 2010.

Rocker Carlos Santana wants to regroup with his original bandmates and return to the site of the legendary 1969 Woodstock music festival to celebrate its upcoming 50th anniversary.

Beyonce shared the first picture of her newborn twins on Instagram on Friday (14Jul17) as she marked their one-month birthday.

Pollstar is out with their mid-year analysis of the touring business and, so far in 2017, business is flat.

Chris Bell was a member of Big Star during their short but influential run before recording numerous solo tracks leading up to his death in 1978 in a car accident.

Kid Rock has hit back at claims his planned run for Senate is a publicity stunt.

Guns N' Roses have scrapped a sightseeing trip to Jerusalem ahead of a Saturday night (July 15) concert in Tel Aviv following a terror attack.

Mamma Mia! was a worldwide hit both in the theater and on film. Just in the United States, the movie took in $144 million and is number 6 on the list of all-time live action movie musicals while, throughout the world, it took in $600 million.

One person has died after a truck slammed into the RV of metal supergroup Adrenaline Mob in Florida on Friday.

Melbourne’s The Sand Dollars have released their EP ‘I Like The Look Of Your Sweater Can I Have Your Number’, with Tash Sultana’s producer Nikita Miltiadou.

Universal’s $31 million deal with the Prince estate has been declared void in court.

The music of Michael Jackson will be the basis of a new one-hour animated special coming this October to CBS.

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Major new titles coming this week from: The Kite String Tangle, Offa Rex, Coldplay (EP), L D R U (EP), Paradise Lost, Mura Masa, Oh Wonder, Meg Mac, The Vamps, French Montana and Jonas Blue.

A CD copy of Richard Clapton’s ‘Mainstreet Jive’ album has sold on eBay for $1691.

The very prolific Van Morrison will release 37th studio album, Roll With the Punches, on September 22.

Country superstar Loretta Lynn has postponed the release of a new album and scrapped all her remaining shows for 2017 as she continues to recover from a stroke.

Police have released pictures from inside the hotel room where Soundgarden rocker Chris Cornell died.

Nile Rodgers has been in the studio producing tracks featuring the late George Michael in the hope they will receive a posthumous release.

Live will perform with the original line-up in Australia in November.

Between 1977 and 1982, David Bowie found himself experimenting more and more with his music.

A website called Kid Rock For Senate recently went online but it wasn't until late Wednesday afternoon (July 12) that he made it clear that it was no joke.