Nicky Bomba has left the John Butler Trio to concentrate on the Melbourne Ska Orchestra.

Supergroup The Dead Daisies will spend a month in the UK from November 22 on tour with Black Star Riders.

Sly Stone's story, with all its many strange twists and turns, could probably fill a couple of volumes and, with his latest idea, there may be a need to add many more pages.

A report on the Hollywood Reporter says that Harry Connick, Jr. is signing a deal to be the third judge on the upcoming season of American Idol.

The Who's classic rock opera, Tommy, has been remastered and will be released in a variety of formats on November 12 via UMe.

Lance Bass is engaged to boyfriend Michael Turchin.

Kanye West was paid approximately $3 million to perform at a wedding in Kazakhastan, according to a report.

NEXON Europe has announced that global pop sensation, media personality and all-round gentleman PSY is appearing in the enormously successful online free-to-play games MapleStory and Combat Arms.

Lady Gaga wet fans' appetites in London Sunday with a preview of her new album.

Justin Bieber was reportedly attacked by a partygoer in Toronto, Canada.

Howard Jones started a new eight-part weekly radio series on the U.K.'s Absolute 80s on Sunday.

Billy Bragg has been confirmed as a showcase act for the BIGSOUND music conference in Brisbane next week.

Hunters & Collectors and Birds Of Tokyo have been announced as the acts to perform at the AFL Grand Final in Melbourne on September 28.

The Queenscliff Music Festival in November has announced its third round of artists with Sticky Fingers and D At Sea making the list.

The Pearl Jam ‘Lightning Bolt’ tracklisting has been released by the band.

Rapper The Game has finally landed on Australian soil to start is on-again, off-again Aussie tour.

Sir David Frost, one of the greatest interviewers of a generation, has passed away at the age of 74.

Lily Allen is making a comeback after taking a few years off to become a mother and a music executive.

Glenn Shorrock, Catherine Britt and Casey Donovan are just some of the stars coming together to perform for A Night At The Rock Opera to benefit the YWCA, New South Wales.

US country superstar Toby Keith will perform for the first time ever in Australia next March when he heads down under for CMC Rocks The Hunter 2014.

Mick Jagger has cast Chadwick Boseman in the lead role of James Brown in the biopic he is making about the Godfather of Soul.

John Mayer lands his second consecutive number one in Australia as his sixth studio album “Paradise Valley” debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums chart this week.

Katy Perry’s “Roar” is at the top of the Australian charts for a second week, plus the song also achieves Platinum (▲) in sales this week too, whilst there are only two changes within the entire top six songs this week.

John Bromell, former Managing Director for Warner Chappell Publishing and Rondor Music in Australia, has died in Coffs Harbour at the age of 71.

‘Swine’ is the new song by Lady Gaga. Gaga released a one-minute sampler of the new song from her ‘ARTPOP’ album on YouTube on Friday.

John Mayer ‘Paradise Valley’ has held a steady lead all week on Australia’s iTunes chart and coupled with instore reaction for physical disc sales will easily come in ahead of Avenged Sevenfold ‘Hail To The King’ this week.

James Blunt will release his new single 'Bonfire Heart' on October 7. The song is the first single to be taken from his fourth studio album 'Moon Landing' which is released on October 21, through Atlantic Records.

Stone Temple Pilots lead from Linkin Park's Chester Bennington have announced their debut EP will be titled High Rise, and will be released via Spinefarm Records on October 7th.

Avenged Sevenfold are fighting to land their first ever UK #1 with their new album 'Hail To The King' which was released this week.

After a series of post-retirement performances Wilko Johnson's last scheduled performance will take place on Saturday (August 31) at Bingley Music Live in Bingley, West Yorkshire, England.