Aretha Franklin's new album as well as The Flaming Lips take on Sgt Pepper leads the new music releases this week.

Wilko Johnson reports he has mastered his battle with cancer.

AC/DC 'Rock Or Bust' could sell over 300,000 copies in its first week making it one of the fastest sellers of the year despite a forecast half of the last album first week sales.

Aretha Franklin thinks it's "ridiculous" she hasn't collaborated with Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson.

Metallica will be releasing a ten-year anniversary 2-disc Blu-Ray and DVD of their out of print, groundbreaking movie, METALLICA: Some Kind of Monster on November 24, 2104.

Culture Club revisited the scene of their inaugural London gig in 1982 last night for their first reunion in twelve years. Heaven nightclub was London’s hottest ticket and Music-News.com were ecstatic to be there.

James Brown fans have a reason to rejoice. Universal has released seventeen rare Brown albums digitally on all of the major retailers and streaming sites.

The entire output of the supergroup Cream will be compiled in a new vinyl box set Cream: 1966 - 1972. The set is due in November.

Kate Bush has written a thank-you note to her fans.

Bette Midler has covered TLC's 'Waterfalls' for his first album in 8 years.

Fleetwood Mac 'Rumours' has now old over 20 million copies in the USA in that year that not one 2014 releases has sold 1,000,000.

Alvin Stardust has died at age 72 just weeks after announcing his comeback.

Kasey Chambers has been forced to postpone her upcoming Australian tour after being diagnosed with nodules.

New Order founder and former member Peter Hook will tour Australia and New Zealand in 2015 to perform classic albums of New Order.

Neil Young will present his first ever art exhibition in Santa Monica in November.

Milky Chance visited the SiriusXM Studios in New York this week for a performance of Miley Cyrus’ ‘Wrecking Ball’.

Taylor Swift has revealed the full tracklisting for her 5th album ‘1989’ via her Instagram account.

Triple J will mark its 40th anniversary with a concert for Sydney in January.

Scott Weiland will showcase his new band The Wildabouts at SXSW 2015.

Angus & Julia Stone, The Church and Ball Park Music are amongst the first Australian acts to be chosen to showcase at SXSW in Austin, Texas in 2015.

Drake will tour Australia for the first time as headliner for Future Summer 15, with Avicii and The Prodigy also on the bill for 2015.

Slipknot could have the number one album in Australia by week's end. '5 The Grey Chapter' is one of the fastest selling albums in the country this week.

Australia’s Sheppard have made their American television show debut performing ‘Geronimo’ for the Ellen Degeneres Show.

Coldplay will release a live DVD and CD sourced from various performances of the songs from Ghost Stories performed around the world, including a performance from Sydney.

Lionel Richie has dismissed claims he's Khloe Kardashian's birth father.

Baseball's biggest games begin tonight Kansas City as the San Francisco Giants meet the Royals in the fall classic but, for music fans, it's all about the minutes before the game.

Billy Joel continues to be a composer. He's just not concerned about anyone else ever hearing the music.

Jimmy Barnes has hit the road and is performing complete albums along the way.

360 has spoken up after becoming the topic of talk shows following his appearance on Q&A on Monday night.

U2’s spam stunt has hurt US sales.