Here is the official announcement of events for RISING 2024 in Victoria.

‘Difficult Woman’, the ninth album for Renée Geyer, will be released for the very first time ever on vinyl on 15 March 2024.

Slipknot will return to Australia in 2025 for Knotfest.

‘War is Over: Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko’ has won the Oscar for Short Film (Animated) at the 2024 Academy Awards.

Bruce Dickinson fans in Australia have chosen the physical disc over streaming with Bruce’s ‘The Mandrake Project’ debuting at no 6 on the Physical album chart and at no 17 on the Vinyl chart.

Madonna is set to perform a huge free show in Brazil.

Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell have won the Academy Award for Music (Original Song) for there contribution to the ‘Barbie’ movie ‘What Was I Made For?’.

Madonna apologised after accidentally criticising a fan in a wheelchair for remaining seated during her concert.

Doja Cat has criticised her more than 24 million Instagram followers before deleting her account on the platform.

Infectious Grooves will have a new album soon, their first since ‘Mas Borracho’ in 2000.

The troubled Pitch Music & Arts Festival has been shut down as Victoria’s heatwave continues and Police have confirmed one death from the festival, due to an overdose.

Daryl Hall and Elvis Costello will head out on a joint US tour starting June 2 in Oregon.

After a huge 2023, Legends on the Lawn will return to Mackay for 2024 with Icehouse and Jet headlining at line-up with Jon Stevens, Pete Murray, Baby Animals, 1927 and Bachelor Girl.

The Guns N’ Roses / AC/DC path has crossed yet again with Brian Johnson of AC/DC joining Slash of Guns N’ Roses for a cover of the Howlin’ Wolf blues classic ‘Killing Floor’.

Brian Cadd has another new song from the upcoming ‘Dream Train’ album and one you may have heard before. Cadd originally ‘The One That Got Away’ on his 2016 Bootleg Family album ‘Bulletproof’.

Organisers for Pitch Music & Arts Festival have issued an update on fire danger in the region and the current expectations for the event.

Mark Ronson believes the song he co-wrote for the Barbie movie, I'm Just Ken, has helped young boys cope with rejection.

Kylie Minogue joined Madonna on stage at Kia Stadium in Los Angeles this week. It was the first time Madonna and Kylie had ever performed together.

Jet have announced new dates for the Get Born 20th anniversary tour.

Elly-May Barnes has premiered her new song ‘No Good’, an all out rocker in the family tradition, co-written with Davey lane of You Am I and produced, mixed and most instruments from her uncle Mark Lizotte (aka Diesel).

Red Hot Summer, the music festival founded by Duane McDonald in 2011, has won the Festival of the Year Award at Ticketmaster Australia’s annual award event.

Entertainment legend Steve Lawrence has died in Los Angeles at 88 from complications due to Alzheimer’s disease.

Tim Freedman has been slow cookin’ ‘Kookaburra’ for a few years and slowing serving courses since 2021.

At Graham Nash’s first Australian concert in Melbourne for the ‘Sixty Years of Songs & Stories’ tour Graham mentioned how David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Neil Young and himself often spoke to each other song. For us for fans, they were songs we bought, played, heard on the radio, loved, they are our classics, they are our soundtrack. To Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, they were letters between friends.

Two Door Cinema Club have shared their brand new single ‘Happy Customers’. The joyous new track is led with an essence of sunshine nostalgia which takes a trip back to the band’s early soundscapes. Amongst a backdrop of Two Door Cinema Club goodness, lead singer Alex Trimble’s vocals are at their most versatile, taking on mezzo-soprano vocal range, which go on to erupt into an instantly recognisable anthemic chorus.

Cher and her son have been asked to reach an agreement.

Mel B has confirmed that there will be a Spice Girls reunion later this year.

Ariel ‘LIVE at Martinis 1976’ will be the 39th release in the Australian Road Crew Association (ARCA) Desk Tape Series.

Billy Idol’s 1983 classic album ‘Rebel Yell’ will be expanded to mark its 40th anniversary.

A brand new video for the unreleased Split Enz track ‘Murder’ will premiere on 13 March, 2024.