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Howard Jones
Howard Jones Preps Northern Hemisphere World Tour For 40th Anniversary of ‘Dream Into Action’

Howard Jones is going on the road across North American then Europe to mark the 50th anniversary of his iconic ‘Dream Into Action’ album.

June 4, 2025
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Talking Heads Mark 50th Anniversary of First Show At CBGBs

June 5 marks the 50th anniversary of the time Talking Heads played their first show at New York’s legendary CBGBs.

June 4, 2025
Paul Carrack The Country Side
Paul Carrack Releases His First Country Album

Paul Carrack, best known for his tenures with Squeeze, Mike & The Mechanics and Roger Waters, as well as his own band Ace, is about to release his first country record ‘The Country Side of Paul Carrack Vol. 1’ in July.

June 4, 2025
Kevin Borich Express Live ARCA
Kevin Borich Express Live Is The Latest In ARCA Desk Tape Series

Kevin Borich Express recorded in Geelong in 1979, Sydney in 1982 and Darwin in 1995 makes up the latest release in The Desk Tape Series by Australia Road Crew Association (ARCA).

June 4, 2025
Paul Kelly and Dan Kelly at Red Hot Summer Mornington photo by Bron Robinson
Paul Kelly Rediscovers and Releases 40-Year Old ‘Cool Hand Lukin’

Paul Kelly has discovered a 40-year old outtake from his ‘Post’ album and is letting us hear it for the first time.

June 4, 2025
The Cruel Sea
The Cruel Sea To Headline 11th Dashville Skyline in the Hunter Valley

The Hunter Valley in New South Wales coming up to the 11th anniversary of Dashville Skyline.

June 4, 2025
The Whitlams 2025
The Whitlams Add Third Show With Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

The Whitlams will play a third show with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at Hamer Hall in September.

June 4, 2025
Seven Mary Three Churn
Seven Mary Three Debut Churn Gets a 2025 Expansion

‘Churn’, the 1994 debut album for Seven Mary Three, has had an extra nine tracks for an all-new expanded edition.

June 4, 2025
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Burton C Bell’s ‘Savages’ is About A Politically Corrupt USA And Its Ungodly Evangelists

Burton C Bell has used his powerful new song ‘Savages’ as editorial, calling out the felon and his flock of ungodly evangelists.

June 3, 2025
Sebastian Bach
Sebastian Bach To Perform Skid Row’s Debut Album For Australia

Skid Row’s 1989self-titled debut reached no 12 in Australia, no 6 in the USA and went all the way to no. 1 in New Zealand. In November, Sebastian Bach will perform the entire album in Australia.

June 3, 2025
Al Jardine Islands In The Sun
Neil Young Teams With Beach Boys Legend Al Jardine on ‘My Plane Leave Tomorrow’

Neil Young and The Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine have a new song ‘My Plane Leaves Tomorrow’ (Au Revoir) from Al’s new four track EP ‘Islands In the Sun’.

June 3, 2025
GayC/DC
GayC/DC Premiere ‘Gay Boy Boogie’ with a Touch of Twisted Sister

So anyway, there is this band from Los Angeles called GayC/DC that has been around since 2013 and is now getting some traction with their new song ‘Gay Boy Boogie’, a nod to AC/DC’s 1977 Let There Be Rock anthem ‘Bad Boy Boogie’.

June 3, 2025
The Favors The Dream Finneas and Ashe
Finneas O’Connell Has A New Band Called The Favors

Finneas O’Connell has formed a new band The Favors with Ashe.

June 3, 2025
Helen Ryder
Helen Ryder Previews Second Album ‘Love Over Hate’ with ‘Magnetic Field’

Australian singer songwriter Helen Ryder has revealed her second album ‘Love Over Hate’ will be released later in 2025. To get things rolling, a new song ‘Magnetic Field’ teases the album.

June 3, 2025
Josh Teskey of The Teskey Brothers photo by Winston Robinson
The Teskey Brothers To Headline Ocean Sounds on Phillip Island

The Teskey Brothers will headline the 2026 edition of Ocean Sounds for Victoria’s Philip Island in January.

June 3, 2025
Hilltop Hoods image by Ashlee Jones
Hilltop Hoods To Headline New Music Festival One Street One Day In Townsville

Far north Queensland is the home of a brand new music festival One Street One Day with headliner Hilltop Hoods.

June 3, 2025
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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Recruits Josh Piterman For The Music of Billy Joel

Former Ten Tenor, UK Phantom and Corny Hairspray star Josh Piterman will join Phil Burton, Alinta Chidzey and Jess Hitchcock to perform the music of Billy Joel with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in November.

June 2, 2025
The Ferguson Rogers Process
The Ferguson Rogers Process Release Space & Time Dub Remix of ‘A Long Year’

The Ferguson Rogers Process, the collective of Lance Ferguson of The Bamboos and Tim Rogers of You Am I, have slipped out a Space and Tim Dub mix of ‘A Long Year’.

June 2, 2025
Duran Duran in Austin Texas photo by Ros O'Gorman
Duran Duran Are Working With Nile Rodgers Again

Duran Duran were working with Nile Rodgers again on the weekend.

June 2, 2025
Thom Yorke, Radiohead, Photo: Ros O'Gorman
Thom Yorke Claims AI Is Theft

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke says artificial intelligence does nothing more than "steal" from original human artistic work.

June 2, 2025
Taylor Swift photo by Ros O'Gorman
Taylor Swift Is Struggling To Re-Record ‘Reputation’

Taylor Swift has struggled to re-record ‘Reputation’. After Scooter Braun bought the master recordings of Taylor’s first six albums from her former record label Big Machine in 2019, Swift set about re-releasing new versions of her work.

June 2, 2025
Shakira
Shakira Cancels Second Concert Due To “Technical Issues”

Shakira has cancelled her second concert in the space of three days due to ongoing technical issues.

June 2, 2025
Rihanna photo by Ros O'Gorman
Rihanna’s Father Ron Fenty Dies At Age 70

Rihanna's father, Ronald Fenty, has died. He was 70. According to Starcom Network, Fenty died in Los Angeles following "a brief illness". His official cause of death has yet to be revealed.

June 2, 2025
Mike Peters, The Alarm
Mike Peters Funeral Was A Community Gathering

The quiet Welsh village of Dyserth was transformed into a vibrant rock and roll celebration on Thursday, as thousands of fans descended to pay their respects at the funeral of The Alarm frontman, Mike Peters. The iconic musician and tireless charity fundraiser passed away last month at the age of 66, after a courageous 30-year battle with cancer reports the BBC.

June 2, 2025
Bono, U2 perform at Etihad Stadium. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Bono Says U2 Is A Democracy

Bono has described U2 as a "democracy". Bono has explained how the members of U2 all chip in with ideas for new music, although it usually the lead guitarist's suggestions that are given preference.

June 2, 2025
Five, Noise11, Photo
Five Planning Reunion Tour Documentary

Five fans could get a behind-the-scenes documentary film about the reunion.

June 2, 2025
Crowded House perform at Rod Laver Arena 10 December 2024 photo by Winston Robinson
Crowded House To Headline The Next Red Hot Summer Series

Crowded House will perform more live shows for 2025 for Red Hot Summer, as well as Mannum’s Sounds by the River and Mackay’s Legends on the Lawn.

June 1, 2025
Marcie Jones photo by Ros O'Gorman
Australian Music Pioneer Marcie Jones Passes Aged 79

Marcie Jones, the Marcie from 60s Australian girl group Marcie and the Cookies, has died at the age of 79.

June 1, 2025
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John Lennon’s Psychedelic Rolls Royce Is Back On Display At Royal British Columbia Museum in Canada

John Lennon’s 1964 Rolls-Royce Phantom is on display at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Canada until January 2026.

May 31, 2025
Terry Draper of Klaatu from his Facebook page
Terry Draper of Klaatu Dies At Age 73

Terry Draper, one of the three founding members of Klaatu, has died at the age of 73.

May 31, 2025