The Association of Independent Music in the U.K. has announced that they will be giving their Outstanding Contribution to Music Award for 2013 to Billy Bragg.

Metallica has a new "first" for their career, their first appearance at San Diego's Comic-Con.  

Country superstar Randy Travis is in a Texas hospital in a serious condition with viral heart infection.

Adalita has released the first taste of her second solo album with the song ‘All Day Venus’.

The hit theatre production ‘Wicked’ will return to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in May, 2014 to mark the 10th anniversary of the show.

The Dead Daisies, the David Lowy and Jon Stevens Australian supergroup also featuring members of Guns N Roses and Thin Lizzy, has added more shows for the upcoming US tour.

Triple J favs Jackie Onassis will spend August travelling Australia.

Pink resonates with a certain demographic of fan. Her audience is made up of mostly women aged 25-35. They love Pink and Pink sings for them.

Baby Animals will be filming shows on their next Australian tour for their first-ever live DVD.

Eagles opened their History of The Eagles show Saturday night in Louisville, Kentucky with former member Bernie Leadon back performing live and with a setlist featuring old songs rarely performed by the legendary band.

The Boomerang Festival will feature a special performance from Wantok SING SING performing Wan Solwara Pipel.

The National Indigenous Music Awards will pay respect to the late Dr Yunupingu with a Yothu Yindi Tribute at the ceremony in Darwin in August.

The Rolling Stones have returned to play Hyde Park, London for the first time since 1969 with Gary Clark Jr as their special guest.

The Eagles will open their History of the Eagles Tour on Saturday night in Louisville, KY and former member Bernie Leadon will be included on the trek.

Beyonce will tour Australia in October for Live Nation.

Local hip-hop act Bliss N’ Eso debut at No.1 with their fifth album entitled “Circus in the Sky”, also becoming their second consecutive chart-topping album, as their fourth set “Running on Air” debuted at the top back on 9-Aug-2010.

Avicii moves up to No.1 in Australia this week with his first chart-topping single here “Wake Me Up” featuring Aloe Blacc as guest vocalist, the track also achieves Gold (●) sales status this week too.

Melbourne City councillor Rohan Leppert has been presented with a petition to name a Melbourne lane after the late Divinyls singer by her husband Charley Drayton and cousin, 60s pop legend Little Patti.

Author Clinton Walker Warner archivist Dave Laing have dug deep to uncover some rare Australian recordings from the 70s for the new Warner compilation ‘Boogie Presents Silver Roads: Australian Country-Rock and Singer Songwriters of the 70s’.

Herb Alpert and Allen Toussaint are among the luminaries to be awarded the 2012 National Medal of the Arts during a ceremony that will be held on Wednesday (July 10) at the White House.

Morrissey was warned by doctors last year that he would die if he kept going with his tour.

Melbourne singer songwriter Daniel Merriweather has posted an explanation of his rant accusing Celine Dion of stealing his song earlier this week.

Megan Washington, Katie Noonan and Lisa Mitchell will feature on the ‘Melodie Francaise’ project with the already announced Gossling and Alexander Gow.

Tributes are flooding in after Bernie Nolan succumbed to cancer aged 52. She had suffered from the disease for three years.

Melbourne musicologist Bruce Milne, founder of Augogo Records, manager of the Blackeyed Susans, licensee of the Tote, has put together a bus tour of Melbourne’s music landmarks.

50 Cent has been charged with assaulting the mother of his child.

Tom Scholz of the band Boston has found himself $132,000 poorer after losing a lawsuit for defamation.

The guitar that broke the hearts of many of Bob Dylan's fans and ushered him into the electric phase of his career will be put up for auction.

Wale ‘The Gifted’ will easily top the US chart this week.

Mike Weatherley, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Hove and Portslade, has welcomed the arrival of Iron Maiden's Trooper Ale as the 'Guest Ale' in the Strangers' Bar at the House of Commons.