Americana outfit Band Of Horses have popped their new album Mirage Rock up on Soundcloud.

Hot on the heels of sold-out shows in Melbourne and Sydney, and a North American tour with Missy Higgins, Butterfly Boucher returns for her first headlining Australian tour.

Avril Lavigne has completed her fifth album, which features fiancé and Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger.

London-based Will And The People took a risk in self-financing their first Australian tour earlier this year.

Grunge revivalists Violent Soho return from the US, work on their third album, and are officially back in action.

The newly Rastafied Snoop Dogg – Snoop Lion – backs a second term for Obama because George W Bush “fucked up for eight years”.

Mumford & Sons were once accused of trying to smuggle people over the Mexican border when they travelled in a vintage train across the US.

Blues-rockers The Rubens celebrate their new album with an art installation in Sydney and an extra show.

Robbie Williams would love to make an album of duets with Gary Barlow but admits it would upset the rest of Take That.

Sir Paul McCartney joined Damon Albarn on stage over the weekend as a surprise special guest at the culmination of the Africa Express tour of the UK, held at London's King's Cross station.

Rihanna has had a new tattoo done in tribute to her late grandmother, 'Dolly', a large image of the Egyptian goddess Isis.

Dave Stewart recently spoke with Reuters on his new album The Ringmaster General.

Megadeth’s 1992 classic Countdown To Extinction is getting the deluxe anniversary treatment.

D.A. Pennebaker, the filmmaker who made such classics as Monterey Pop and Don't Look Back, will be the first documentary maker to receive an Honorary Oscar from the Motion Picture Academy.

Indie heritage couple Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield have booked another Corner Hotel show.

Mark Knopfler, whose new album Privateering was recently released in the U.K., is involved in the saving of African rhinoceros whose horns have become a highly prized item on the black market.

Neil Young and Crazy Horse will release their second CD of 2012, after June's Americana, with Psychedelic Pill.

Whatever Led Zeppelin are up to will be revealed in a few days but its looking like an official release of the O2 concert from five years ago is on the way.

The funeral to bid farewell to Perth Arena and former Allphones Arena General Manager David Humphreys will take place on Thursday in Fremantle and then the following week in Sydney.

Newcastle four-piece The Patriots have topped the final Buzz Chart in the Red Bull Bedroom Jam competition.

Brooklyn indie rock act Grizzly Bear have popped their new album Shields online for streaming.

Pop tramp Ke$ha has announced her new single ‘Die Young’ and tweeted a naked photo of herself.

Akron rockers The Black Keys have hit the studio to start work on their new album, and drop a new video clip.

Avant-garde Brooklyn rock band Dirty Projectors sew their songs together into a short film.

A bible once owned by Elvis Presley has sold for £59,000 (US$94,000) at a British auction.

Poet Nicholson, the 11-month old daughter of Shane Nicholson and Kasey Chambers, has just touched down from her 30th flight.

Maynard James Keenan, of Tool, Puscifer and A Perfect Circle, will write a biweekly column for the Phoenix New Times.

Supergroup Atoms For Peace (Thom Yorke, Flea, Nigel Godrich) deliver a song and do a MoMA DJ set.

Art-noise legends Swans have added Melbourne and Sydney shows to their appearance at ATP.

It’s getting ridiculous. Due to demand, The Living End have added another two Melbourne shows to their mammoth retrospective tour.