The Damned bass player Byrn Merrick has lost his battle with cancer at age 56.

Stephen Colbert picked a Simon & Garfunkel covers act Troubled Waters to perform in his inaugural week for the Late Show and the lead singer looked a lot like Paul Simon.

Bon Jovi played their first show in two years on Friday night in Indonesia.

Kiss founder Paul Stanley performed for the cameras with his soul band Soul Station at West Hollywood’s famed Roxy on Friday night and the show will be coming soon to DVD.

Muse announced the first list of cities/countries of what will be an extensive world tour in support of their hugely acclaimed global No 1 album Drones.

Lily Allen's friends are said to worry she'll destroy her career with her partying.

Bobby Brown believes his daughter Bobbi Kristina's early death was a call from God.

After 30 million album sales, four Grammys and three BRIT Awards, Seal has reunited with the legendary producer Trevor Horn for his new album '7' which will be released on November 6th.

Chris Cornell has revealed the official music video for his song 'Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart', the debut single from his forthcoming solo album Higher Truth.

The fourth EP (second via a major label) for singer/songwriter Troye Sivan is the six track set “Wild” which debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums chart this week.

Justin Bieber manages to hold onto the top spot on the ARIA Singles chart this week with his (now) worldwide No.1 track “What Do You Mean?”

David Cassidy appeared on British television this week in one of the most embarrassingly awkward interviews he has ever done.

Jon Stevens is proudly displaying the Heart Foundation logo on his website to support the organisation.

The Sword’s last album ‘Apocryphon’ was a mammoth success worldwide and the band, inevitably, found themselves in the position of needing to follow it up. The question was “do we do another concept album and try to copy the success of Apocryphon?”

It isn’t often that I go overboard about live performances but I have to say that if you don’t have a ticket for a show on this tour you need to be out there searching.

Whitney Houston's estate has announced the late singer will be returning as a hologram.

Elvis Costello has put together a new 2-CD set that he says is a soundtrack to his upcoming memoir.

Steven Tyler has performed his first solo show and it was a little bit country.

Chris Brown has won joint custody of his daughter Royalty.

Grace Jones feels "so copied" by a majority of modern musicians.

Steve Mackay, the saxophone player for the Stooges, is in critical condition in a Daly City, CA hospital.

Charli XCX has been inspired by the pop culture 'genius' of Paris Hilton.

Beyoncé Knowles and Jay Z could face getting kicked out of their LA home.

Bring Me The Horizon is the latest act to be announced in an excruciatingly painful slow roll-out of Soundwave acts.

The Nico and Vinz Australian and New Zealand tour, only announced yesterday, has been postponed.

Janet Jackson just keeps adding dates for her Unbreakable Tour with nineteen new North American shows from February to June of next year.

Neil Finn has written the song ‘Help Is Coming’ and recorded the song with Crowded House for Refugees.

Bring Me the Horizon, Natalie Imbruglia, Duran Duran, Stereophonics, Gary Clark Jr., Ellie Drennan, Jarryd James, Leona Lewis, Slayer, The Libertines, Nero, Hollywood Vampires and Stanton Warriors lead the week's new releases.

John Taylor of Duran Duran will join Noise11 this week to officially launch the ‘Paper Gods’ album on iHeartRadio while Mick Hucknall of Simply Red recalls when he was in the audience for the very first Sex Pistols gig.

The concert film The Who in Hyde Park will be presented in movie theaters nationwide on Thursday, October 8 by Fathom Entertainment and Arts Alliance.