Australia’s guitarist Joe Matera will debut his new album ‘Terra Firma’ with some help from The Sweet’s Pete Lincoln and Smokie’s Martin Bullard.

Mary J. Blige will release her first Christmas album ‘Mary Christmas’ for this year’s holiday season.

Anthony Callea sing in the holiday season for you this year. He will release a Christmas album in November.

Cher will head back out on the road for a North American tour in 2014.

Georgia punk band Veara are streaming their entire new album ‘Growing Up Is Killing Me’ ahead of their Van’s Warped tour of Australia.

The Woodford Folk Festival is taking Jordie Hall and Rose Cousins out around regionally for the Festival of Small Halls.

Six years after debuting on the Australian stage at Melbourne’s Regent ‘Wicked’, will return to where it began its record breaking Australian run in 2014.

Australia’s Atlas Genius performed the title track of their ‘When It Was Now’ album on the Conan O’Brien Show in the USA last week.

Lorde, Haim and Frightened Rabbit will head to Australia for the Laneway Festival in 2014.

Paul McCartney is amused by that people hearing his new music don’t expect it to be him.

Allman Brothers legend Greg Allman will perform in Australia for the very first time for Bluesfest and soul legend Aaron Neville will play his first ever solo shows for Bluefest.

James Blunt will be in Sydney next week for a performance for iHeartRADIO.

Tex Perkins has taken to Facebook to take a dig at DIG, the ABC’s digital radio station for what he considers to have been “unprofessional conduct” after they used information from an interview not due air until late October to spill the beans on Homebake.

‘Behind The Candleabra’, the movie about the life of Liberace, won two Emmy Awards.

Australian pop icon Little Pattie has cast her vote of support for Labor candidate Anthony Albanese as Labor leader.

Former Decoder Ring member Lenka will return for a run of East Coast Australia dates in October to showcase her ‘Shadows’ album.

Sydney four-piece The Jezabels are ready to unveil the first new music from their upcoming second album.

Legendary singer Ray Charles has been honoured by the US Postal Service with a stamp in his name.

Nazareth singer Dan McCafferty announced his retirement from the band after collapsing on stage last month.

The last year has revealed ARIA winning Sarah Blasko as a bold, thoughtful and intense female performer willing to break the mould of singer-songwriting and confirmed her place as 'one of Australia's finest Artists'.

Paul McCartney performed three songs for the very first time at the iHeartRADIO festival in Las Vegas this weekend.

Neil Young is a “long, strange trip” according to Graham Nash in his memoir.

With just over three months to go for the remainder of 2013, Russell Morris ‘Sharkmouth’ is shaping up to be the underdog success story of the year.

Avicii is joining Capital FM to host his own radio show.

The legendary Doobie Brothers will perform a special show in October to raise money for the John Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore.

The top three albums in the country are all new entries this week, with Keith Urban taking out the top spot with his ninth studio album entitled “Fuse”.

Fact: Elvis Presley and Engelbert Humperdinck were great friends.

Katy Perry goes back to No.1 in Australia with her track “Roar” this week, notching up a four week at the top, helped by X-Factor favorite Dami Im’s performance of the song on last weeks show, with Dami’s version entering at No.44.

Sir Mick Jagger is reportedly set to become a great-grandfather.

American singer, songwriter and guitarist Boz Scaggs will perform shows in Japan in November.