The Age Music Victoria will acknowledge the best music produced in Victoria in the past year with The Age Music Victoria Awards to be held on Wednesday, November 19.

Chet Faker leads the ARIA Awards nominees for 2014 with 9 nominations including Album of the Year with Sheppard in for seven awards.

The Sugar Mountain Festival will return in 2015 and the line-up announcement will be made next week but the first act revealed is Ariel Pink.

Joan Armatrading has clarified early reports that her final tour will be her exit from the music industry.

Melbourne’s The Smith Street Band have revealed the first official video for ‘Surrender’, their new song from the upcoming ‘Throw Me In The River’ album.

South Africa’s Kongos is a band to watch in Australia but old news already in the USA.

The remake version of super-soap Dallas has been cancelled after three seasons but Twin Peaks fans are waking to news of a new season after 25 years.

Bill Bailey is equal parts comedian and philosopher. Yes, Bailey’s Limboland is billed as a comedy show but it is more a reality check of the pulse of the people.

Mariah Carey has been criticised for delivering poor vocals at her Japan show this weekend.

Pearl Jam are three shows in to their US mini tour with a stopover Sunday night in Austin for Austin City Limits.

The Tea Party and The Superjesus will kick off their Australian tour on Thursday, October 9 in Perth. Noise11 invites you and a friend to attend the show of your choice.

Les Claypool has turned the soundtrack to ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ into a Primus album.

The Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett experiment ‘Cheek To Cheek’ will struggle to reach even Gold status (35,000 sales) in Australia.

Slash’s irrelevant performance at the NFL Game Final in Sydney last night would be the talking point of today if Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott wasn’t there as well.

Bill Murray sings the Bob Dylan classic ‘Shelter From The Storm’ along to Dylan in his new movie St Vincent’.

Paul Revere, the charismatic leader of Paul Revere and the Raiders, died on Saturday at the age of 76. While no official cause of death was announced, Revere had been in poor health and had retired from the band in July.

Blues legend B.B. King has cancelled his next eight shows after falling on stage in Chicago on Friday night.

Coldplay’s Chris Martin was a surprise guest of Kings of Leon at Friday night’s Hollywood Bowl concert in Los Angeles.

Pink Floyd have been teasing fans with 30-second snippets of their new album ‘The Endless River’ and have released a third video.

Greek superstar Nana Mouskouri will return to Australia next April as part of her world tour marking her 80th birthday.

Ed Sheeran 'x' has returned to the top of the ARIA album chart.

The Veronicas stay atop the ARIA Singles chart for a second week with “You Ruin Me”.

Moving Pictures debuted their first new music in 30 years at the Sydney Opera House on Friday night (October 3, 2014).

Yusuf aka Cat Stevens has releases a short film by director Danny Clinch to explain his next album ‘Tell ‘Em I’m Gone’.

Rob Skipper of UK indie rock band The Holloways has been confirmed dead at age 28.

Wu-Tang Clan have signed with Warner Music and will release their new album ‘A Better Tomorrow’ in December.

Nikki Sixx fans is giving fans a full online listening session to his new Sixx:A.M. album ‘Modern Vintage’ before its release next week.

Lorde has been immortalised on South Park.

Renny Wijeyamohan of Out Door Films has directed the new Kasey Chambers and Bernard Fanning video for ‘Bittersweet’.

Rolling Stones keyboard player Chuck Leavell has developed an online teaching platform for music students to learn how to play piano.