Van Halen will hit the road in July for a North American tour with Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have now publically stated that singer Jade Castrinos was not sacked by the band, she quit.

San Francisco will host the eighth Outside Lands Festival on August 7 through 9 in Golden Gate Park and, on Tuesday, announced an eclectic lineup that includes Australia's Chet Faker and Tame Impala.

October will be a big month for classic artist memoirs with new books from John Fogerty and Elvis Costello.

Sony Pictures has obtained the rights to the movie version of the Broadway show Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and with Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Paul Blake to produce. Blake was the original producer of the theatrical version.

Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard are pairing up for the fourth time in their career with the upcoming album Django & Jimmie.

Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson is continuing to make progress in his fight against cancer.

Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music has written a piece for Britain's The Independent on a guitar riff of his that Jay-Z and Kanye West used on their album Watch the Throne.

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will reunite as Mulder and Scully for a six-show run on The X-Files.

Andy Bull has had to juggle dates for his upcoming Australian tour.

Ed Sheeran has been confirmed as the latest English musician to score a guest spot in the Australian soap opera Home and Away.

Sia has taken home the APRA Song of the Year for the third time and A{RA Awards are also heading the way of Sheppard, Angus & Julia Stone, Gotye and Five Seconds Of Summer.

Peter Hook will perform a one-off show in Macclesfield, UK featuring all 48 Joy Division songs.

Squeeze have announced that 2015 will be a major milestone in their history with a brand new album and an extensive tour of the U.K.

Melbourne’s Palace of the King will release their debut album ‘White Bird/Burn The Sky’ in Europe via Listenable Records.

The over-hyped Madonna album ‘Rebel Heart’ has stiffed in its second week in Australia and the UK and will do the same in the USA this week.

Nordoff Robbins hosted a private party this evening (March 23) to exclusively announce the first two O2 Silver Clef 2015 Award winners of 2015, legendary British heavy metal band Iron Maiden and operatic pop vocal group Il Divo, and to celebrate its 40th Anniversary.

David Crosby was involved in an accident on Sunday evening in Santa Ynez, CA when the car he was driving hit a jogger.

Florence + The Machine have debuted a video for their ‘How Big How Blue How Beautiful’ album track ‘St Jude’.

Musexpo has revealed the 2015 showcase acts scheduled to perform at S.I.R. Studios in Los Angeles in April.

Muse have debuted ‘Dead Inside’, the first official single fro, the upcoming ‘Drones’ album.

Brandon Flowers has started to debut songs from his second solo album live starting with ‘Can’t Deny My Love’ in Mexico this month.

Kylie Minogue has donated 20 of her stage outfits to the Arts Centre Melbourne's Australian Performing Arts Collection.

Alexander Gow has unveiled his new music video for Oh Mercy’s ‘Sandy’.

London's Abbey Road Studios have announced their first foray into education with the launch of Abbey Road Institute launching in Sydney and Melbourne later this year.

Taylor Swift is reported to have gone on a ‘Porn URL’ shopping spree buying up her X-rated domain names before her name is used for porn sites.

If Black Sabbath are about to play their last ever show Sharon Osbourne has done a very unconvincing job of selling the message.

Eight albums from the Thin Lizzy catalog will be reissued this month.

Lonesome Street, the third and final track to be sent to fans ahead of release of The Magic Whip, is available now.

The Black Keys are the latest headline act to drop of Bluesfest when they cancelled their entire Australian tour today.