Courtney Barnett and The National are two of the artists who have covered The Grateful Dead on the new tribute album ‘Day of the Dead’.

Cold Chisel will be honoured with the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services To Australian Music at the 2016 APRA Awards on April 5.

case/lang/veirs, the trio album from Neko Case, k.d. lang and Laura Veirs will be released on June 17 via anti- Records.

Joe Skyward, also known as Joe Bass, bassist for the Posies and Sunny Day Real Estate, died on Sunday after a two year battle with prostate cancer. He was 57.

Lady Gaga celebrated her 30th birthday in style over the weekend (26-27Mar16) with a star-studded bash.

Noel Gallagher has played a few rare Oasis songs at his Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds show at Bluesfest on the weekend.

Brian Wilson has more original Beach Boys than the Beach Boys in his current band. Al Jardine is in his band so together with Brian, Brian’s band has twice as many original Beach Boys as Mike Love’s Beach Boys branded band.

Jackson Browne has performed the first of his Australian shows for 2016 at Bluesfest in Byron Bay.

David Gilmour opened his North American tour on Thursday and Friday night at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl with a long show of both Pink Floyd classics along with music from his latest album Rattle That Lock.

Tom Petty's short-lived early 70's band Mudcrutch was resurrected in 2008 to release their first and do a brief tour. In May, they will released their second set and will promote it on a longer tour of the U.S.

R&B legend Aretha Franklin is $15 million (£10.6 million) away from financing her forthcoming biographical film.

Singer Boy George has put his past behind him, and now he's urging others to do the same.

Two huge women's voices will fill venues around the U.S. this summer as Pat Benatar, with husband Neil Giraldo, and Melissa Etheridge co-headline.

Adele has promised a full investigation into an incident that left a fan injured at her concert in Glasgow, Scotland.

Mariah Carey has scrapped her birthday concert in Brussels, Belgium over safety concerns.

Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys have been announced as the new judges on The Voice.

Guns N' Roses have officially announced a list of 21 cities that they will be visiting this summer with their "original" lineup but, it true Axl Rose fashion, they are late in telling us when or at what venue.

Olivia Newton-John is currently suffering from a bout of bronchitis and has been forced to postpone dates.

The Rolling Stones have performed their first ever show in Cuba to an estimated audience of 1.3 million.

Brisbane’s four-piece alt-rock band Violent Soho see their fourth studio album “WACO” become their first album to top the ARIA Albums Chart and it is also their second Top 10 entry.

Ahead of their self-titled second album being released here next week (1st April), Danish group Lukas Graham remain at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a sixth straight week with “7 Years”.

Now that Dolores O'Riordan's legal problems are behind her, it's time to move forward with her career. She has joined up with former Smiths bass player Andy Rourke and New York based DJ Ole Koretsky to form the new band D.A.R.K.

Madonna has jokingly apologised for putting up parking signs at the public car space outside her New York City home.

Conan O’Brien has paid tribute to Garry Shandling calling him “extremely innovative and intelligent”.

Barry Gibb is reportedly set to join band Coldplay during their closing slot at Glastonbury Festival.

Jackson Browne tells tales of his remarkable career at Noise11 iHeartRadio this week.

Garry Shandling, the US comedian who achieved worldwide fame as talk-show host Larry Sanders on The Larry Sanders Show, has died at the age of 66.

Paul McCartney was seen loitering around a shoot for ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man Tell No Tales” this week but everyone is hush about what he is doing.

Kurt Vile has been transformed into squirrel form (yes, your read that right) on an episode of HBO's animated series Animals.

The Daytime Emmy Awards have traditionally been the bastion of soap operas, game shows and talk programs but, as television has evolved, so have the awards.