Pearl Jam played a little bit of almost every album when they performed their first full-set as headliners of the first Big Day Out in Auckland this week.

Liam Gallagher is keeping Oasis alive with a few songs spread through-out his Beady Eye setlist.

Sydney Entertainment Centre will live on as Qantas Credit Union Arena. The iconic Sydney venue has dodged a bullet, at least for two more years.

For the third consecutive week, the self-titled fifth album for Beyonce holds onto the top spot on the ARIA Albums Chart, whilst Katy Perry’s “Prism” is on hold at No.2 for a fourth straight week, and seventh appearance at No.2 overall (it did spend one week at the top upon debut in November 2013).

“Happy” to be at No.1 in Australia on ARIA for a third week is Pharrell Williams, but he should be elated now as last week the track hit Platinum, this week it’s 2x▲ Platinum in sales.

Bruce Springsteen will make recordings of all of his upcoming shows, including the Australian shows, available for downloads.

Neil Young and Jack White are said to be in the studio together working on a secret project, believed to be a covers album.

Heart featured on this week’s episode of ‘Family Guy’.

Music fans purchased more Rock Music than any other genre in 2013.

Soundwave has added former Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora along with Filter and I Killed The Prom Queen in announcement number three.

Surf movie director Tim Bonython is taking the Australian Surf Movie Festival on tour with the movies ‘Wild Australia - The Journey’ and ‘Encoded’.

Placebo will perform extra shows for Sydney and Melbourne during the Soundwave tour.

Stone Temple Pilots, with their new lead singer Chester Bennington, will perform Soundwave sidewaves in Sydney and Melbourne in February.

Daniel Johns of Silverchair is working on his first solo record.

Russell Johnson, who for three years was better known as The Professor from Gilligan’s Island, has died at the age of 89.

Dolly Parton has added a second and final Sydney date to her upcoming 'Blue Smoke' tour and has changed the Adelaide date.

UB40 are getting back together ... kind of.

Billy Joel has expanded his 2014 tour to Wrigley Field in Chicago, the Hollywood Bowl and the MGM Grand in Las Vegas along with nine dates at Madison Square Garden (so far).

Perry Farrell has once again placed Jane's Addiction on hiatus.

U2 have been nominated for an Oscar.

Dave Madden, the Canadian actor who play Reuben Kincade in the 70s TV sitcom The Partridge Family, has died in Florida at the age of 82.

Bruce Springsteen 'High Hopes' leads the week's new music releases.

Spirit if Akasha’, the movie honouring 40 years of the iconic surf flick ‘Morning Of The Earth’, will have its world premiere at the Sydney Festival on January 25.

The Eagles performed at the new Forum in Los Angeles on Monday at a gala benefit for pancreatic cancer to honour their former agent Peter Grosslight who is suffering from the disease.

Punk luminaries Off! will release their second album “Wasted Years’ in April.

Morrissey has finally landed a worldwide agreement to release his next album with Harvest Records.

Bachman-Turner Overdrive will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at this year's Juno Awards in March.

Music from the Rolling Stones 2013 released documentary 'Charlie Is My Darling' will be released as an album.

So Frenchy So Chic will be held in Sydney for the first time this Saturday with an all-star French line-up including Lilly Wood & The Prick, Féfé, Babylon Circus as well as Edward Deer (Melodie Francaise).

‘Batman’, the 60s TV series starring Adam West as the Caped Crusader, is heading to DVD and Blu-Ray for the first time ever.