Billy Joe Royal, who had hits in the 60's like Down in the Boondocks and Cherry Hill Park and reemerged in the 80's with a series of country hits, died in his sleep on Tuesday at his home in North Carolina at the age of 73.

Mandy Moore believes investing money into women’s health “makes good sense” for the economy.

Country singer Miranda Lambert has hinted her divorce has inspired her to hit the studio.

Stevie Wonder is once again a single man.

Shania Twain has been forced to outright cancel two shows due to illness.

Janet Jackson has announced five UK tour dates.

Kanye West’s daughter North has completely changed his sound.

Duane McDonald, the man behind the Red Hot Summer and One Electric Day events, has a brand new music experience on the way – Legends In The Vines.

Courtney Barnett has been nominated for eight ARIA Awards with Hermitude and Vance Joy up for seven apiece.

Kanye West has praised Frank Ocean for combating homophobia in music.

Mini Mansions, the side project for Queens of the Stone Age bass player Michael Shuman, will play their own shows in Sydney and Melbourne.

Alex Lloyd has been announced as the special guest for Icehouse’s upcoming shows in Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra in 2016.

Amphlett Lane will become a music venue for one night only as part of Melbourne Music Week in November.

Rapper Missy Elliott has reportedly been hit with a lawsuit for allegedly failing to promote two concerts in Brazil, leading to poor ticket sales.

Melbourne duo Nakatomi has released a new song ‘The Knife’ ahead of showcase gigs in October and November.

Justin Bieber believes One Direction took his album release date for extra publicity.

Steve ‘Pav’ Pavlovic has been cleared of any wrongdoing over unpaid royalties to Tame Impala in a US court and has had his stake in Modular returned via an Australian court.

Paul McCartney has unveiled a brand new video for his 1983 smash hit single with Michael Jackson - 'Say Say Say', directed by Ryan Heffington who recently directed and choreographed the video for Sia's 'Chandelier'.

Lenny Kravitz thinks it’s funny to get “pummelled” by children on Guitar Hero.

Melbourne’s Joe Matera has become the first international signing to Dutch record label RVPRecords.

Will Smith has confirmed he is in the studio every day working on new music for the first time in 10 years.

Demi Lovato thinks it is unfortunate some members of the media characterise gunmen behind mass shootings as mentally ill.

Rocker Travis Barker has gushed about how “hot” his new girlfriend Rita Ora is.

King Charles is set to release his second album ‘Gamble For A Rose’ on 22 January 2016.

A secret Grand Jury has reportedly convened with the intention of setting criminal charges against Nick Gordon.

Hozier has started legal action against the musician after the latter accused him of plagiarism with his hit single 'Take Me To Church'.

Tickets to Glastonbury sold out in 32 minutes.

Sir Tom Jones thinks modern music is "shit".

Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson's representatives have denied rumours of a rift between the stars after Liam was videoed seemingly pushing Louis on stage.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is back working with LA Reid. The two music moguls have teamed up again for new music and a new label coming soon via Sony.