The Rolling Stones prepared for the start of the 2013 leg of the ’50 and Counting’ tour with an intimate gig at the Echoplex Club in Echo Park on Saturday night.

After 50 years British Paints has dropped Rolf Harris from its future advertising campaigns.

The Troubadour is not the place where you would normally expect to see a performance by Rod Stewart, but that's the venue he played to a small crowd of 300 on Thursday night.

Michael Buble ‘To Be Loved’ remains at number 1 on the ARIA chart and has been certified Platinum this week in Australia after two weeks.

Passenger stays at the top of the ARIA chart for a 5th week becoming the longest running single for 2013 so far with ‘Let Her Go’.

Baz Luhrmann has struck a deal with Jack White’s Third Man Records to release an expanded vinyl edition of ‘The Great Gatsby’ soundtrack.

Regine Chassagne and Win Butler of Arcade Fire are new parents to a baby boy.

Record Store Day has been declared a success after music sales for independent record stores across America were up 59% on the previous week and up 3% on the same day last year.

Two Australian legends Little River Band’s Beeb Birtles and singer/songwriter Brian Cadd wrote their first song together this week.

The Rolling Stones will perform an intimate gig at the Echoplex in Echo Park, Los Angeles tonight (April 27, 2013).

The Flaming Lips showcased their new album ‘The Terror’ at SXSW in March.

Russell Morris ‘Sharkmouth’ will return to no. 6 on the ARIA Chart on Sunday making it four weeks in a row the album was spent in the Australian Top 10.

Aerosmith co-headlined the Stone Music Festival in Sydney on Saturday, April 20.

Renee Geyer’s 25th album ‘Swing’ has debuted at no. 22 on this week’s ARIA chart.

The Dead Daisies are making their first music video for ‘Lock ‘N’ Load’ with the same Melbourne film company that created videos for Gotye and Bob Evans.

The death of Divinyl’s singer Chrissy Amphlett on Monday has sent Divinyl’s ‘Essential’ album back into the iTunes Top 10 in Australia.

Neil Diamond is taking the city that adopted his Sweet Caroline to heart as he has announced that he will donate the royalties from the song to the cities One Fund. The charity support the victims of the recent bombings in Boston.

Geoff Tate's version of Queensryche may have rushed their new album, Frequency Unknown, to the market a little too fast in their quest to get the set out before one from the competing version of the band.

Glenn Frey of the Eagles says that their upcoming History of the Eagles Tour may be the last for the band.

The 2013 Regeneration Tour, billed as "North America's premier 80's tour",  just got a bit smaller. The Human League has dropped off the tour.

British ska legends Madness have released a new four-disc version of their latest album, Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da.

Black Sabbath, who just started their world tour in Australia in support of the album 13, will play at least twenty dates this summer in North America.

David Bowie has always been a bit of a mystery and he hasn't dispelled that view with his "explanation" of the new album The Next Day.

The Country Music community is today mourning the passing of George Jones, one of the greatest country stars of all time.

Country superstar George Jones has died at the age of 81.

The Dead Daisies, featuring members of Guns ‘N Roses, Noiseworks and Red Phoenix, will perform their next Australian show on Sunday in Melbourne on the Aerosmith tour.

Dan Donegan and Mike Wengren of Disturbed have revealed their side-project Fight Or Flight.

System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian will release two albums in June and July.

Breakaway Recordings in Australia will reissue the first two They Might Be Giants albums making Australia the only territory in the world the physical albums will be available.

US TV show host Jimmy Kimmel sent a film crew to Coachella to ask fans what they thought about a whole lot of bands. Fans raved about Get The Fuck Out of My Pool, The Chelsea Clintons and The Obesity Epidemic. The only thing is the bands do not exist.