The City of Yarra has revealed the third annual Leaps and Bounds Music Festival at a launch party at the Gasometer in Collingwood and once again, it has announced an outstanding lineup with over 50 venues collectively hosting more than 300 events featuring around 800 acts during the 17 day festival.

Jimmy Dixon of Django Django is the special guest on iHeartRadio Music News, powered by Noise11 this week.

Kris Kristofferson has recorded a cover of Tom Petty's 'I Won't Back Down' for a History Channel show.

The Chemical Brothers will release Born in the Echoes, the eighth studio album of their twenty year career, with appearances from Beck and St. Vincent.

Splendour In The Grass have announced Sideshows around Australia with dates for The Wombats, The Vaccines, Ms Mr, Years and Years, Wolf Alice and The Districts.

Blur will perform in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth as well as their Splendour In The Grass headliner in July.

Tex Perkins will perform ‘One Minute’s Silence’, a tribute to the ANZACs, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground this Saturday, April 25 for ANZAC Day.

Richard Clapton has titled his one-off Sydney show The Lonesome Voyager this year.

Adam Lambert will get by with a little help from his friend Brian May on his new album.

Joan Jett says rock and roll gives people the ability to say exactly what they mean.

Metallica's special cassette release for Record Store Day was the second biggest selling item on the day last weekend.

The Bob Dylan tribute show ‘Forever Young: The Songs of Bob Dylan’ will return for 2015 with another all-star line-up of Melbourne musos performing for songs of Dylan.

Splendour In the Grass tickets were snapped up fast and the event sold-out within an hour of going on sale today.

Cosmic Psychos have been working on their first album in four years and ill tour with Dune Rats when the album is released.

The Charlatans, featuring Tim Burgess, Mark Collins, Martin Blunt and Tony Rogers, have a new video for 'Let The Good Times Be Never Ending'.

Conrad Sewell has added extra shows in both Melbourne and Sydney for his first Aussie headline tour.

'Cobain: Montage of Heck' is the first authorised Kurt Cobain documentary, directed by Brett Morgen.

Gilbert O'Sullivan has a new album and UK tour plans.

Nile Rodgers thought he would die before his bandmates and contemporaries.

Just two weeks after Jay-Z introduced his Tidal streaming service, the interest has almost dropped out of site. With the share price escalating and then sliding, Tidal has caused a major 'Pump and Dump' on the Swedish Stock Exchange.

Ben Lee will perform a limited number of shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in June to showcase the release of his new album ‘Love Is The Great Rebellion’.

Milk Carton Kids will return to Australia in June for live dates on the East Coast.

Panic! At The Disco premiered their brand new track, "Hallelujah," this morning exclusively on Los Angeles' world famous KROQ in a surprise for fans and industry alike.

Adele is reportedly 'taking her time' to figure out who to work with on her new album.

Sam Smith has been nominated for a prestigious Ivor Novello Award.

Grammy Award winning singer songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter will tour Australia in August and September.

Metallica's Kirk Hammett has lost his phone and it contained over 250 unused Metallica song ideas.

Ed Sheeran will perform even bigger shows in Australia and New Zealand with promoter Frontier Touring upsizes Ed to Stadium level.

Neil Diamond's current US tour gives Australian fans a sense of what to expect later this year.

Motley Crue have added extra dates for their final US tour but they are all before the last show on New Year's Eve.