Vance Joy has a Top 20 hit in the UK with 'Riptide'

Deftones are reaching right back to their first album ‘Adrenaline’ from 1995 for their Big Day Out playlist.

The new Kylie Minogue song ‘Into The Blue’ has been leaked onto YouTube ahead of its official release.

Pearl Jam are staying true to the philosophy of never performing the same show twice and punters at the Big Day Out Gold Coast were treated to another unique experience.

Eagles have officially been the first act to play at the iconic Forum reopening in Los Angeles.

Phil Everly was remembered with a service in the small Kentucky town of Powderly on Saturday.

Arcade Fire, along with Pearl Jam, are the two many acts doing full sets at Big Day Out 2014.

Pearl Jam played a little bit of almost every album when they performed their first full-set as headliners of the first Big Day Out in Auckland this week.

Liam Gallagher is keeping Oasis alive with a few songs spread through-out his Beady Eye setlist.

Sydney Entertainment Centre will live on as Qantas Credit Union Arena. The iconic Sydney venue has dodged a bullet, at least for two more years.

For the third consecutive week, the self-titled fifth album for Beyonce holds onto the top spot on the ARIA Albums Chart, whilst Katy Perry’s “Prism” is on hold at No.2 for a fourth straight week, and seventh appearance at No.2 overall (it did spend one week at the top upon debut in November 2013).

“Happy” to be at No.1 in Australia on ARIA for a third week is Pharrell Williams, but he should be elated now as last week the track hit Platinum, this week it’s 2x▲ Platinum in sales.

Bruce Springsteen will make recordings of all of his upcoming shows, including the Australian shows, available for downloads.

Neil Young and Jack White are said to be in the studio together working on a secret project, believed to be a covers album.

Heart featured on this week’s episode of ‘Family Guy’.

Music fans purchased more Rock Music than any other genre in 2013.

Soundwave has added former Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora along with Filter and I Killed The Prom Queen in announcement number three.

Surf movie director Tim Bonython is taking the Australian Surf Movie Festival on tour with the movies ‘Wild Australia - The Journey’ and ‘Encoded’.

Placebo will perform extra shows for Sydney and Melbourne during the Soundwave tour.

Stone Temple Pilots, with their new lead singer Chester Bennington, will perform Soundwave sidewaves in Sydney and Melbourne in February.

Daniel Johns of Silverchair is working on his first solo record.

Russell Johnson, who for three years was better known as The Professor from Gilligan’s Island, has died at the age of 89.

Dolly Parton has added a second and final Sydney date to her upcoming 'Blue Smoke' tour and has changed the Adelaide date.

UB40 are getting back together ... kind of.

Billy Joel has expanded his 2014 tour to Wrigley Field in Chicago, the Hollywood Bowl and the MGM Grand in Las Vegas along with nine dates at Madison Square Garden (so far).

Perry Farrell has once again placed Jane's Addiction on hiatus.

U2 have been nominated for an Oscar.

Dave Madden, the Canadian actor who play Reuben Kincade in the 70s TV sitcom The Partridge Family, has died in Florida at the age of 82.

Bruce Springsteen 'High Hopes' leads the week's new music releases.

Spirit if Akasha’, the movie honouring 40 years of the iconic surf flick ‘Morning Of The Earth’, will have its world premiere at the Sydney Festival on January 25.