As the UK gears up to host the Rugby World Cup, SOL3 MIO ' affectionately known as the 'All Blacks of Opera' ' prepare to release their eagerly-awaited second album On Another Note on 18th September.

Florence & The Machine will play Open'er Festival for the first time.

Spotify reveals the songs that came out on top for music lovers this summer, with Major Lazer's 'Lean On' (feat. MØ and DJ Snake) taking the number 1 spot, globally. Ranking in second place globally is OMI's 'Cheerleader', with Wiz Khalifa's 'See You Again' rounding out the top three.

Rico Rodriguez, who played trombone with a long list of artists but most famously with The Specials, died on Friday at the age of 80.

Boy George finds happiness an interesting challenge.

Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones have played their reunion show in London 40 years after their last public performance.

Miley Cyrus is reportedly being eyed up for Glastonbury.

Pink thinks the whole world is "waiting for a fight".

Arcade Fire will release their first feature film, The Reflektor Tapes, coming to cinemas around the world from September 24th.

Rita Ora is annoyed she let her split from Calvin Harris affect her work.

50 Cent is struggling to pay his household bills, it has been claimed.

Azealia Banks is happy with confrontation as long as critics 'have something to say'.

Damon Albarn has joined the line-up for the Tony Allen Review at Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 13 September.

Like the singles chart this week, we have a first time Canadian artist debuting in the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart, rapper and RnB singer The Weeknd sees his second studio album “Beauty Behind the Madness” come straight into the top spot in Australia.

A month after One Direction debuted at the top and gained their first No.1 single in Australia, Justin Bieber this week achieves the same feat, landing his very first number one on the ARIA Singles chart, and he also debuts atop the chart with “What Do You Mean?”

Pink supposedly felt the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards were just plain 'gross'.

Janet Jackson has released the title track from her upcoming album Unbreakable.

Hermitude will bring along Kilter to play on their Sydney and Melbourne shows and The Meeting Tree for Sydney and Chiefs for Melbourne.

Shania Twain's final tour is continuing overseas and the country superstar says she wouldn't mind returning to Las Vegas for an extended run.

Prog Magazine's fourth annual Progressive Music Awards celebrated a landmark year for prog.

The Libertines will donate the proceeds of their upcoming UK tour to Migrant Offshore Aid Station to help refugees.

The legendary group Kansas has signed with InsideOut Music to release their upcoming studio album.

Black Sabbath have announced a farewell tour with Australian and New Zealand dates locked in for April 2016.

In January 1972, Aretha Franklin performed at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles and the show was recorded and released as the album Amazing Grace..

Roger Waters The Wall is being shown at 9 cinemas across the UK on September 29th and Music-News.com was able to attend a pre-screening of the movie in Dolby Atmos sound and 4K video.

Meat Loaf can't understand why people have been hostile since he sang through a vocal hemorrhage.

Boomer Castleman, who had a long career behind the scenes in music along with one minor hit single, died on Tuesday from cancer at the age of 70.

David Gilmour will support his new album, Rattle That Lock, with five shows in South America.

Mumford & Sons have added two new live shows in Glasgow and Dublin to their forthcoming UK headline tour, due to phenomenal demand.

Refused are the fourth act added to Soundwave.