Metallica has announced that the world premiere of their new 3-D movie Through the Never will be on September 9 at the Toronto International Film Festival.

After 35 years and 6 million album sales Cold Chisel have left Warner Music to start their own label.

Triple J is Perth’s number one radio station and that is a real slap in the face for commercial radio stations.

Songs by Russell Morris, Archie Roach, Peter Allen and The Atlantics have been added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s Sounds of Australia.

Comedian Rob Schneider and comedienne Kathy Griffin (to be politically correct and at the same time sexist) will head to Australia in October for Just For Laughs comedy festival at the Sydney Opera House.

Aerosmith has been forced to cancel appearances at festivals in Shanghai and Taipai this Wednesday and Saturday.

Neil Young and Crazy Horse have cancelled their four upcoming North American shows citing doctor's orders to guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro.

Busby Marou will head around Australia to sing up the release of their second album ‘Farewell Fitzroy’ from August.

Sydney band Dead In A Second have recorded a male vocal version of Chrissy Amphlett’s Divinyls classic ‘Boys In Town’ as a charity single.

Tina Arena will release her first English language album of original songs since 2001 in October.

Melbourne singer songwriter Dan Sultan has been working on his third album in Nashville with Kings of Leon producer Jacquire King.

The Screaming Jets will lap Australia one more time kicking off a national tour in Caloundra in October.

UK band The Cribs will return to Australia in October.

The Replacements have their lineup in place for three upcoming reunion shows.

Birds of Tokyo’s version of Hunters & Collectors ‘Talking To A Stranger’ is the first official single from ‘Crucible – The Songs Of Hunters & Collectors’.

The Dead Daisies singer Jon Stevens can be heard singing the main theme song to the new Disney movie ‘Planes’.

Lady Gaga fans have given her new single more of a slow clap than applause. The preview song from Gaga’s ‘ARTPOP’ album is stiffing with the fans.

A private jet carrying the bands Ratt and Dokken was forced to land Saturday afternoon when the smell of smoke was detected in the cabin.

‘Slave 2 The Rhythm’, a song recorded by Michael Jackson just before his death in 2009 with vocals added later by Justin Bieber has surfaced online.

Sydney indie-dance trio RÜFÜS take out the new No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums chart with their debut album “Atlas”, becoming the 678th album to reach the top of the Australian Albums Chart (1965 to 2013) and the 537th for ARIA (1983 to 2013).

The Sweet Inspirations, featuring the legendary Estelle Brown, will perform in Australia for the first time for the Elvis In Concert tribute show.

Jason DeRulo gains a bunch of second achievements this week, as his new single “Talk Dirty” featuring 2 Chainz enters at No.1, becoming his second No.1 and his second to debut at the top, plus it’s the second song of the year to enter at the top of the charts.

Brownstock Festival is an independent boutique style festival held on the Brown Family's farm in Essex on the weekend of the 30th, 31st Aug and 1st Sept.

Marianne Faithfull has been forced to cancel upcoming shows in Lebanon and the United States after breaking her back.

Lady Gaga has announced the premiere of her Applause music video.

Chris Brown has been ordered to complete 1,000 hours of community labour.

Bill Hillier’s latest production work was for relatively unknown UK singer songwriter Nadine Shah.

Evermore have contributed to the Global Poverty Project with the song ‘One Love’ and will perform at the Golden Citizen Festival from Melbourne in September.

Don Walker has recorded a solo version of ‘Everybody’, one of his songs featured on the last Cold Chisel album ‘No Plans’.

‘Melodie Francaise’, the music project conceived by Aussie music entrepreneur Cathy Oates, has been officially released through Sydney record company Inertia.