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Jon Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi, Photo, Ros O'Gorman
Bon Jovi Have Highest Grossing Tour Of 2013

Bon Jovi had the biggest tour of 2013 according to leading tour website Pollstar, taking in over $60 million more than second place Beyonce.

January 3, 2014
Meat Loaf - Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo
Meat Loaf Is Back Like A Bat Out Of Hell

Meat Loaf is returning to action less than 12 months after hanging up his bat.

January 3, 2014
Calvin Harris: Photo Ros O'Gorman
Calvin Harris 2013’s Highest Paid DJ

Calvin Harris can easily buy himself a few turntables and a microphone this year.

January 3, 2014
Lady Gaga, ARTPOP, Applause, Noise11, Photo
New Music Releases For W/C January 3, 2014

Robbie Williams and Lady Gaga vinyl releases lead a very quiet week of new music releases.

January 2, 2014
Simone Bose
Universal Music Spain President Simone Bosé Dies At Age 51

Simone Bosé, the newly appointed President of Universal Music Spain, has died from complications from pneumonia at the age of 51.

January 2, 2014
Mat McHugh
Mat.McHugh Kicks Off Solo National Tour

Mat.McHugh, the former lead singer and guitarist for The Beautiful Girls, will kick off a solo national tour in Sydney this week.

January 2, 2014
Joe Creighton
Joe Creighton To Bring New Orleans To Australia

Black Sorrows bass player Joe Creighton will bring a taste of New Orleans to Australian stages when he launches JC & The Po Boys later this month in Melbourne.

January 2, 2014
Daniel Johns
Daniel Johns Returns Via 360 Song

Daniel Johns of Silverchair will make his long overdue return to music with rapper 360.

January 2, 2014
Ian Astbury, The Cult - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
The Cult To Headline Alt-Fest

The Cult have been announced for UK music festival Alt-Fest later this year.

January 2, 2014
Beck, Harvest Festival 2012: Photo Ros O'Gorman
Beck Covers John Lennon

Beck has recorded a John Lennon cover for a compilation album of artists singing their favourite songs.

January 2, 2014
ABBA, Noise11, Photo
Abba Happy New Year Most Streamed Song in UK For NYE

Abba gave England a Swedish flavoured soundtrack on New Year’s Eve.

January 2, 2014
Robin Thicke Blurred Lines
Robin Thicke Tops UK Singles Chart In 2013

Robin Thicke featuring TI and Pharrell had the biggest selling single of 2013 in the UK with ‘Blurred Lines’.

January 1, 2014
One Direction, Louis Tomlinson, Photo By Ros O'Gorman
One Direction Has Biggest Album On 2013 In UK

One Direction 'Midnight Memories' was the biggest selling album of 2013 in the UK. 'Midnight Memories' sold 685,000 copies for One Direction.

January 1, 2014
Fleetwood Mac, Noise11, Photo
Fleetwood Mac Return To The Stage

Fleetwood Mac have played their first show since bass player John McVie announced he had been diagnosed with cancer.

January 1, 2014
Beyonce. Photo by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo, https://www.noise11.com
NASA Issues Statement Over Beyonce Challenger Song

NASA has issued a statement following the decision by Beyonce to use audio from the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in the video for her song ‘XO’.

January 1, 2014
Katherine Jenkins at Noise11.com
Katherine Jenkins Awarded OBE

Katherine Jenkins will now wear the letter OBE after her name after receiving the honour from Queen Elizabeth II in the New Year’s Honours list.

January 1, 2014
Penelope Keith in To The Manor Born
Penelope Keith, Angela Lansbury Made Dames By Queen Elizabeth II

Actresses Penelope Keith and Angela Lansbury will now be known as Dame Penelope Keith and Dame Angela Lansbury. The two veteran actors were given the title by Queen Elizabeth II in her New Year’s Honours list.

January 1, 2014
Pete Tong
Pete Tong Awarded MBE

The British DJ and broadcaster, Pete Tong, has been awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for services to Broadcasting and Music in the New Year's Honours List 2014.

January 1, 2014
Marilyn Manson - photo by Ros O'Gorman
Marilyn Manson Becomes An Actor

Marilyn Manson has a new job for 2014. He says he is now an actor.

January 1, 2014
Lou Reed, sxsw 2008, Photo By Ros O'Gorman
R.I.P. The Rock And Roll Heaven 2013 Inductees

R.I.P., in 2013 more than 150 musicians, songwriters, producers, actors and writers passed into Rock and Roll Heaven including the writer of the song, Alan O'Day.

January 1, 2014
Reg Mombassa with his art at Sydney Opera House, Noise11, Photo
Reg Mombassa Designs Sydney’s NYE Fireworks

Reg Mombassa of Dog Trumpet and formerly of Mental As Anything is today working with the title Creative Ambassador for tonight’s New Year’s Eve fireworks in Sydney.

December 31, 2013
Gtronic
NYE Festival Cancelled With 24 Hours Notice

NYE Festival due for Sydney’s New Year’s Eve celebration has been cancelled with just 24 hours notice for punters.

December 31, 2013
School of Seven Bells, Noise11
Benjamin Curtis Of School of Seven Bells Dead At 35

Benjamin Curtis, the guitarist for Dallas band School of Seven Bells, has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 35.

December 31, 2013
Beyonce. Photo by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo, https://www.noise11.com
Beyonce Criticised For Using Space Shuttle Disaster In Video

Beyonce is under fire for using audio from the 1986 space shuttle disaster in one of her music videos.

December 31, 2013
Mike Malinin
Goo Goo Dolls Fire Mike Malinin

Goo Goo Dolls have first drummer Mike Malinin after 19 years service with the band.

December 31, 2013
Dave Evans, Photo By Ros O'Gorman
AC/DC First Setlist From 40 Years Ago

AC/DC performed their first ever shows in Sydney exactly 40 years ago today with a set of mainly Stones, Beatles, Chuck Berry and Little Richard covers.

December 31, 2013
Michael Buble Christmas
Christmas Generates Record Music Sales Week

Christmas week has proven to be the best week for album sales in Australia for 2013.

December 30, 2013
Ninet Tayeb performs witn Jon Stevens and The Dead Daisies
Israel’s Ninet Tayeb Performs With The Dead Daisies

Ninet Tayeb, one of the incredible voices to watch in 2014, performed with Australian supergroup The Dead Daisies at their one-off show in Israel on December 21.

December 30, 2013
Hiatus Kaiyote
Hiatus Kaiyote Listed In 10 Best Concerts By Wall Street Journal

Australia’s Hiatus Kaiyote have been named as one of the 10 best concerts of 2013 for a show in New York’s Central Park in August.

December 30, 2013
Paul Doucette, Matchbox Twenty, Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Matchbox Twenty’s Paul Doucette To Make Solo Record In 2014

Matchbox Twenty’s Paul Doucette has signalled another break for the band with news he is planning on making a solo record in the New Year.

December 30, 2013