Beck has managed to score his career best on the U.K. Albums chart with a number 4 debut of Morning Phase.

Eric Clapton just may be serious about the whole retirement thing.

Abba will mark their 40th anniversary with the release of a 3CD Abba Gold and B-Sides set.

Justin Timberlake will return to Australia for his first tour in six years.

Blur's Damon Albarn has his first solo record coming and he spoke to the BBC about it.

Spotify rolls out the red carpet this Oscars' weekend to reveal the most popular movie tracks from past 12 months.

Outside Donald Fagan and Walter Becker, Steely Dan has been a bit of a revolving door of members. One of those players was David Palmer, who is suing the group for back royalties.

Rick Springfield is going to have a very busy 2014. Along with the release of his first novel, Magnificent Vibration, in May, he is also out on his Stripped Down solo tour which is expected to go through the end of the year.

Depeche Mode hailing from Basildon, a few km from my own birthplace, have always had a special place in my heart, but seemingly thousands of Italians too because they have such a massive following here.

Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale have welcomed their third son.

Fatboy Slim is known the world over for his unique brand of 'Party Acid House', something he advocates through the medium of DJing and of course the music he makes.

Grandmaster Flash will be immortalised on Sunset Boulevard's RockWalk.

The Doobie Brothers are out to prove how much their classic rock has been an influence on modern country with a duets album featuring some of the band's biggest hits.

Bruce Springsteen opened up his Auckland, New Zealand show with a cover of Lorde’s ‘Royals’ this weekend.

INXS hold for a third week at No.1 with their “Very Best of” collection, becoming their second longest running chart-topping album behind “The Swing” (TW-34) which stayed atop for five weeks from April 1984.

Pharrell Williams holds for an eighth non-consecutive week at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with “Happy”, the song also climbing to the top of the US chart this week too.

Soundwave, Australia’s yearly metal-fest, wrapped up its Melbourne leg at Flemington Racecourse on February 28th.

Green Day’s setlist at Soundwave Melbourne often came across sounding like classic hits radio station Gold 104 on Friday.

Bruce Springsteen’s show in Auckland, New Zealand tonight may just very well be the scene of a System of a Down appearance for Serj Tankian. Tankian is also in Auckland and he has been hanging out with Tom Morello.

Soundwave promoter AJ Maddah has confirmed that Perth will not be treated to the metal music festival in 2015.

Richie Sambora is playing a decent slab of Bon Jovi on his current Australia tour as well as a few well-placed covers by Prince, Hendrix and INXS.

Damon Albarn has released a new solo song 'Lonely Press Play'.

Franz Ferdinand release a new single, Fresh Strawberries, on Monday April 7th 2014.

will.i.am's latest venture is eye-wear.

Mike Love was the honoree at the 21st Ella Awards put on by the Society of Singers.

Brian Eno and Karl Hyde come together with a new album to be released this May on Warp Records.

Production for the Gregg Allman's biopic 'Midnight Rider' has been placed on hold.

Dave Davies, lead guitarist and founding member for The Kinks, will perform his first show in 13 years in the UK in April.

Elaine Paige OBE says that at age 65 it is time for her to retire from touring.

Beck is expected to score his first-ever number one album in the UK next week.