Lionel Richie is set to receive the Songwriters Hall of Fame's most prestigious honour in June.

R&B star The Weeknd looks set to dominate the 2016 Billboard Music Awards after earning 19 award nominations 16 categories. .

The friends of Karl Broadie will gather for a benefit concert to assist Karl with his medical bills as he battles cancer.

James Reyne and Mark Seymour will head out together for their joint forces ‘And The Rest Is History’ tour from late July.

Gene Simmons says N.W.A. has no place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Boom Crash Opera will take to the road for the first time with new singer Andrew De Silva in June.

Toto’s Steve Porcaro will release his first ever solo album ‘Someday / Somehow’ in June.

Bendigo’s HardCopy Entertainment has put the word out for artists who want to perform for Record Store Day this weekend.

All India Bakchod (AIB) will perform in Sydney and Melbourne in May.

Australian guitarist and songwriter Bob Spencer has released a video as a taster for his first-ever solo album ‘Saints and Murderers’.

Tommy Emmanuel will return to Australia in August and play some remote shows in centres he has not visited in more than a decade.

Stanwell Park’s own Clare Bowen, who stars in the hit TV show ‘Nashville’ as country singer and songwriter Scarlett O’Connor, is coming back to Australia to town and will include a ‘Gong gig in Thirroul.

Vince Neil is no stranger to the Las Vegas police and he stretched his record of arrests on Thursday evening with a new misdemeanour battery charge.

Sydney Super Dome has another name. From today it is known as Qudos Bank Arena.

Billy Crystal will tour Australia in July but instead of the traditional comedy show, the comedian actor will appear “in conversation” with Andrew Denton.

Australia’s Troy Cassar-Daley leads the list of artists added to the Gympie Muster in August.

Keith Urban has been promising a new album for upwards of a year but has kept details tightly reigned in. For some, that would have been out of secrecy. For Urban, he was just too busy to put the finishing touches on the set.

Redneck extreme right-winged comedian Rodney Carrington is going to step foot in Australia for the very first time in August.

Some are saying it was inappropriate for Steve Miller to criticize the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just moments after being inducted; however, most are cheering in support.

Record Store Day Australia Ambassador Ella Hooper will perform live for Record Store Day Australia at Record Paradise in Brunswick.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame held their induction ceremony on Friday night at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn.

The reformed Guns N' Roses have officially played their first show at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

The Lost Lands music festival featuring Architecture for Helsinki, Missy Higgins, The Waifs, The Grates and Nicky Bomba may no longer going ahead.

Yellow Wiggle Emma Watkins has married Purple Wiggle Lachy Gillespie. Does that make then the Brown Wiggle?

James Corden finds it flattering that Justin Bieber is a regular guest on his talk show.

The second self-titled album for Danish #1 singles holders Lukas Graham becomes the new No.1 album in Australia this week, plus it has also landed at the top in the home country too (#2 in the UK).

Claiming the No.1 spot on the ARIA Singles Chart for an eighth week are Lukas Graham with their “7 Years”, which this week is not on top of either the digital or streaming chart, but the leaders on both of the charts have lower positions on the other; so that makes the winner Lukas Graham, who are on top of both the singles and albums chart this week.

Don Walker of Cold Chisel gave a gracious acceptance speech when Cold Chisel were awarded the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music.

Utopia Records in the dead heart of Sydney will open old school on Record Store Day … at midnight.

Ciara is set to front the upcoming 2016 Billboard Music Awards with returning host Ludacris.