As happens far too often, we wait to pay tribute to our heroes until after they are gone.

No-one expected Tom Petty to be next. Petty was in the prime of his career. He had just finished up a North America to mark the 40th anniversary of The Heartbreakers after being awarded MusiCares Person of the Year award in February.

Tom Petty, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer whose music was loved and admired by a number of generations of fans, has died at the age of 66.

Marilyn Manson has cancelled nine dates on his North American tour after he was crushed by a large prop onstage in New York City.

Country duo Big & Rich have broken their silence about the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting that occurred hours after they hit the stage at the Las Vegas event.

The insane logic of the America's National Rifle Association (the NRA) and the USA's archaic gun laws is to blame for 50+ dead at a concert in Las Vegas this week.

While former Deep Purple bass player Glenn Hughes is touring Australia with his Classic Deep Purple Live show for the very first time, Purple fans are being treated to some rare tracks.

Sir Elton John has concluded his Australian tour and took the opportunity at his last show in Victoria’s Yarra Valley to talk about the madness of Trump and the insanity of Kim Jong-un.

The Oasis battle is about to gear up with both Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher releasing new albums a month apart of each other.

Marilyn Manson is only three shows into the second leg of his Heaven Upside Down Tour but he has been injured twice.

The fifth studio album for Las Vegas band The Killers entitled "Wonderful Wonderful" becomes their second No.1 album in Australia, and first chart entry in exactly five years.

After two weeks at the top, Sam Smith gives way to US rapper Post Malone and his new track "Rockstar", which debuted at No.8 last week and jumps up to No.1 in Australia giving him his first chart-topping single here, plus the track went to the top in New Zealand and Canada this week too.

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Lady Gaga lead celebrities shaming President Donald Trump for his criticism of leaders and residents of devastated Puerto Rico on Saturday (30Sep17).

Green Day’s American Idiot musical will travel Australia from January 2018.

Metallica's Lars Ulrich worries about members of the group potentially burning themselves out.

The continuing dividing of the United States was played out for the world over the last week with many Americans taking sides over the recent trend of sports stars and, now, musicians "taking a knee" in protest of inequality.

Miley Cyrus returned to her hometown, Nashville, Tennessee, for a rocking album release party on Friday (29Sep17) with family and friends.

Justin Bieber's 18-month run of bad behaviour and legal trouble was far worse than fans realised, according to the singer's longtime manager and mentor Scooter Braun.

Australia’s favourite homophobe ex-PM was yelling at clouds over Macklemore this week telling the world sports shouldn’t be political and totally missed the slap down from The Killers going full-tilt political with a cover of Midnight Oil’s Forgotten Years.

Eagles and Garth Brooks are some of the acts paying tribute to Dan Fogelberg on ‘A Tribute To Dan Fogelberg’.

Country star Luke Bryan and his "hero" Lionel Richie have officially signed on to join Katy Perry as judges on the American Idol reboot.

Elton John has announcd the forthcoming release of Diamonds. Released on November 10th through UMe, Diamonds is the ultimate greatest hits collection from Elton John and will be available on 1CD, 2CD, 3CD limited edition boxset, 2LP heavy-weight gatefold vinyl and digital formats.

Former Deep Purple guitarist Glenn Hughes is performing a complete set of songs from his classic rock band for the first time ever in Australia.

Former Australian Prime Minister the ousted Tony Abbott may very well be Australia’s best music publicist. He is certainly doing a great job for Macklemore sales. The extreme right-winged politician is responsible for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ 5-year old gay anthem ‘Same Love’ leaping back to no 1 in Australia.

Foo Fighters open this week’s iHeartRadio Music News, powered by Noise11.com with a record breaking debut for 2017 on this week’s charts around the world.

Justin Timberlake is reportedly poised to headline the 2018 Super Bowl halftime show, 13 years after he became caught up in Janet Jackson's infamous wardrobe controversy.

A musical based on Cher's life will open in Chicago, Illinois before its Broadway debut next year (2018).

Pat Dinizio, the singer and rhythm guitarist of The Smithereens, has been injured in a fall forcing the band to cancel one and possibly more shows.

Steven Tyler reportedly suffered a seizure shortly after Aerosmith's gig in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Monday night (September 25).

Newly minted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members Yes seem to be giving the Grateful Dead a run for the money for the title of classic artist with the most live albums.