A private jet carrying the bands Ratt and Dokken was forced to land Saturday afternoon when the smell of smoke was detected in the cabin.

‘Slave 2 The Rhythm’, a song recorded by Michael Jackson just before his death in 2009 with vocals added later by Justin Bieber has surfaced online.

Sydney indie-dance trio RÜFÜS take out the new No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums chart with their debut album “Atlas”, becoming the 678th album to reach the top of the Australian Albums Chart (1965 to 2013) and the 537th for ARIA (1983 to 2013).

The Sweet Inspirations, featuring the legendary Estelle Brown, will perform in Australia for the first time for the Elvis In Concert tribute show.

Jason DeRulo gains a bunch of second achievements this week, as his new single “Talk Dirty” featuring 2 Chainz enters at No.1, becoming his second No.1 and his second to debut at the top, plus it’s the second song of the year to enter at the top of the charts.

Brownstock Festival is an independent boutique style festival held on the Brown Family's farm in Essex on the weekend of the 30th, 31st Aug and 1st Sept.

Marianne Faithfull has been forced to cancel upcoming shows in Lebanon and the United States after breaking her back.

Lady Gaga has announced the premiere of her Applause music video.

Chris Brown has been ordered to complete 1,000 hours of community labour.

Bill Hillier’s latest production work was for relatively unknown UK singer songwriter Nadine Shah.

Evermore have contributed to the Global Poverty Project with the song ‘One Love’ and will perform at the Golden Citizen Festival from Melbourne in September.

Don Walker has recorded a solo version of ‘Everybody’, one of his songs featured on the last Cold Chisel album ‘No Plans’.

‘Melodie Francaise’, the music project conceived by Aussie music entrepreneur Cathy Oates, has been officially released through Sydney record company Inertia.

The Dead Daisies have found a couple of good promoters with both Alice Cooper and Nikki Sixx spreading the word about David Lowy’s Aussie supergroup.

Justin Timberlake has revealed the tracklisting for his second volume of ‘The 20/20 Experience’.

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley are among the owners of the a new expansion team in the Arena Football League to be known as the L.A. KISS.

Queen's Roger Taylor has announced that his new studio album, Fun on Earth, will be released in October along with the collection The Lot which will include all of his solo work along with material from The Cross.

Jason Singh, the former lead singer for platinum selling Australian band Taxiride, has dropped a taste of his forthcoming solo album ‘Humanequin’ with the release of the first single ‘Hold On Forever’.

The Melbourne Festival line-up has been revealed with Gurrumul and The Polyphonic Spree, as well as Ireland’s Clannad, Archie Roach and Cody ChestnuTT named to perform over the two week program.

Katie Noonan will become a radio presenter this weekend when she takes to the microphone to host the ‘Sunday Morning’ program on ABC Classical this Sunday.

The Australian High Court has ruled in favour of artists and recording labels and rejected an application by Commercial Radio Australia for a leave application that internet streaming simulcasts be covered by existing broadcast licences.

Roadrunner Records will celebrate thirty years of blistering metal with a 4CD box set cover the hard rock history of the label.

16-year New Zealand singer/songwriter Lorde will release her debut album ‘Pure Heroine’ in September through Universal.

Gotye’s The Basics and a reforming Snout will perform for the Rock The Boat fundraiser for Green’s candidate Adam Bandt and The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

Boy & Bear, Yellowcard, Slim Dusty all have new albums out this week. Jason Singh, Sting and Arctic Monkeys lead the singles releases.

Jimmy Barnes Rock The Big Top Newcastle show has been cancelled after the promoter failed to get the appropriate council approval.

Sydney singer/songwriter Isabella Manfredi from The Preatures has been announced as the winner of the 2013 Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band will return to Australia in 2014 and Hunters & Collectors will reform for one of the shows.

Katy Perry and John Mayer want to tie the knot immediately.

Sir Paul McCartney will reportedly win the rights back to The Beatles' tunes.