Momentum to charge the name of Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena has built over the last few days despite trying to be extinguished by right-winged radio shock jocks and tabloid hacks.

Comedian Jim Gaffigan has cancelled his upcoming Australian and New Zealand tour due to the ongoing illness of his wife Jeannie.

The Drones’ Gareth Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin have formed a new band they call Tropical Fuck Storm.

Sia will perform dates in Sydney and Melbourne at the end of the year as well as an additional show for Auckland, New Zealand.

Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Toruk – The First Flight’ will make its Australian debut in October.

Roger Waters is sending a very clear message to Donald Trump as part of his new ‘Us + Them’ world tour. The message is ‘Fuck Trump’.

Cher has posted a series of Tweets mourning her former husband Gregg Allman, who died of liver cancer on the weekend.

David Duchovny, the artist formerly known as Mulder, will tour Australia in 2018 … as a rock star.

A plane once owned by Elvis Presley and his father, Vernon Presley has been sold at auction for $430,000 by GWS Auctions in Beverly Hills, CA.

Ed Sheeran's third album "÷ (Divide)" returns to the top of the ARIA Albums chart this week for a tenth overall week at the top here, and is now 4x▲Platinum in sales too.

For a second week at No.1 in Australia are Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber with their worldwide chart-topping track "Despacito".

Bandmate and friend Warren Haynes has written a lengthy tribute to Gregg Allman who died at the age of 69.

Rock legend Gregg Allman has lost his battle with liver cancer at age 69.

KC and the Sunshine Band are back with some brand new sounds that sound a lot like their old sounds.

Roger Waters has performed the first show on the Us + Them 2017 tour at Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

A seventeen-minute documentary has been released on the making of the upcoming Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie album.

Liam Gallagher will donate the proceeds from his first solo show in Manchester, England to the victims of the city's bomb attack.

Cliff Richard has settled with the South Yorkshire Police Department in a lawsuit over the handling of a 2014 investigation, but the BBC is still holding out.

The Outer Critics Circle Awards is the first of the big three New York theater prizes to be given out over the next ten days.

The big chart news of the week in the USA is the number of Chris Cornell projects that have launched back onto the charts in the wake of the singer's death.

Jimmy Barnes has become a prize-winning author after picking up the prestigious ABIA Award for Biography of the Year for ‘Working Class Boy’.

Ed Sheeran’s ticket sales for Melbourne alone will tally over 220,000 sales after a fourth Etihad Stadium show was announced this afternoon.

John Farnham will perform a second show for Wollongong in December.

Both Tennis Australia and Margaret Court Arena management have issued statements distancing themselves from a homophobic slur by former tennis champion Margaret Court on Thursday.

Randy Newman has gathered up his first collection of new songs in nine years for ‘Dark Matter’, coming in August.

Ronnie Wood, an original member of the Faces and guitarist for the Rolling Stones since 1975, has undergone a procedure to remove a lesion from his lung.

Matthew Murphy of The Wombats is at iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com this week with an update on the next album for his band and so background on the previous ones.

The Beatles have opened a pop-up store in their hometown Liverpool, England.

Major new titles coming this week from: Bernard Fanning, Frenzal Rhomb, Sgt Peppers 50th Anniversary, Lil' Yachty, The Charlatans, The Wiggles, In Hearts Wake, Justin Townes Earle, New Order and soundtracks for Wonder Woman, Alien: Covenant & Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

A few years back, Todd Rundgren started the Spirit in Harmony Foundation, an organization that raises the awareness of the benefits of music education while establishing programs for instrument-based education starting at the elementary school level.