When Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow took the stage Friday night at Germany's Monsters of Rock Festival, it was the first time he had played straight rock music in nineteen years.

Blink-182 have a video for their new song 'Bored To Tears'.

Academy Award-winner Ron Howard’s authorized documentary feature film about The Beatles’ phenomenal early career, The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years, has set its World Premiere Date in London’s Leicester Square on September 15.

Dionne Warwick will return to Australia for dates in November.

Grouplove will return with a third album ‘Big Mess’ in September.

Set within the picturesque confines of Hampton Court, Van Morrison treated the expectant crowd to a virtuoso performance, effortlessly easing through a set of 19 tracks from his extensive back catalogue.

Kim Venable, the drummer for the late-60's/early-70's band The Classics IV, died on Sunday, June 12 at his home in Pike Road, Alabama.

Rita Ora has signed a new deal with Atlantic Records following her long legal battle with Roc Nation.

Maroon 5 has joined forces with children's charity UNICEF to launch #Maroon5Day.

The director of the rumoured Quadrophenia 'sequel' has denied making a follow-up after The Who blasted the project.

The Australian Stock Exchange has rejected plans by streaming company Guvera to float on the ASX.

Brian Rading, the bassist for the 70's group the Five Man Electrical Band, died on June 8 in Hull, Ontario at the age of 69.

It has been a long time since we have had any significant new music from Peter Gabriel.

Showbiz 411 owner Roger Friedman is reporting that Led Zeppelin was offered $14 million to play at this October's Desert Trip Festival in Indio, CA but turned it down.

Jimmy Barnes ‘Soul Searchin’ is still the no 1 CD in Australia despite slipping to no 3 on the ARIA album chart.

Bernard Fanning will release his third solo album ‘Civil Dusk’ in August and has dropped a taster of the album with the track ‘Wasting Time’.

With seven Billboard Top 10 albums to their name, multiple Platinum album certifications all over the world and a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the legendary ZZ Top are officially the world’s longest running rock band with its original line-up intact.

Alejandro Fuentes, a Top 10 finalist on La Vox (The Voice) in Mexico in 2011, has died after being shot in the head in Chicago in Thursday night. He died on Saturday.

Punk band Death Valley Girls from the streets of Echo Park, Los Angeles, have sourced the far reaches of Australia to cover the Oz Rock Classic ‘Horror Movie’ by Skyhooks.

The third album for local rock act The Temper Trap entitled "Thick as Thieves" becomes the bands second consecutive No.1 album and third Top 10 set, entering at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week.

For the first time this year a song has climbed back up to the top of the ARIA Singles chart, and with the last such occurrence being back in September 2014, it's been awhile since we've seen a returning track; as this week "One Dance" by Drake notches up his fifth week at the top of the Australian singles chart.

Attrell ‘Prince Be’ Cordes of P.M. Dawn has died from kidney disease at the age of 46.

Singer Rick Astley has made up the ground and officially scored his first number 1 album since 1987.

Meat Loaf is recovering in a Canadian hospital after collapsing during a show in Edmonton on Thursday night.

Deep Purple founder and drummer Ian Paice has revealed that the band cancelled show earlier this week after he suffered a mini-stroke.

On June 17 at 12:01 AM local time, The Beatles' award-winning Love album will become available for streaming worldwide.

US Senate candidate and music producer Steven Machat has called for tighter gun control in the lead-up to the US elections.

Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals and Peter Garrett & The Alter Egos are in the first artist announcement for the Queenscliff Music Festival for 2016.

Meat Loaf was rushed to hospital today after collapsing on stage in Canada during a show in Edmonton.

New music is struggling to grab a presence on the iTunes album chart in Australia today with a flood of cheap best of’s taking up one-third of the Top 30.