Joan Jett was scheduled to perform at this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on a float representing South Dakota, that is until state ranchers heard about the plan.

The Flaming Lips will release a full cover version of the Stone Roses debut album for this year's Black Friday edition of Record Store Day.

Heroine December, a band led by Aussie sisters Maya and Nandy McClean, will be launching their new album, ‘Target Practice’, at the Ultimate Prince Party in Melbourne this month. Noise11 caught up with them to talk about their band, their work with Prince and their journey of self-development.

Eminem has had a convincing win over Lady Gaga with the rapper’s second week sales beating the popstar's first week sales by almost 25%.

Robert Rigby’s Fanfare Records will document Todd McKenney’s Peter Allen tribute recordings with the release of ‘Todd McKenny Sings Peter’ this week.

Elvis Costello and the Imposters will perform in Sydney and Adelaide as well as their Deni Blues & Roots and Bluesfest shows.

Alicia Keys will perform at the 27th Annual ARIA Awards in Sydney on December 1.

US band Journey, together with Live Nation Entertainment, Creative Artists Agency and their manager John Baruck, have donated $350,000 for the relief efforts in the Philippines following the recent typhoon that killed over 4000 people.

The second and final day of the Face The Music conference gave us something to look forward to next year, following a hugely successful sixth outing.

The seventh album for 2013 to notch up two or more weeks occurs this week, as Eminem holds at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart with “The Marshall Mathers LP 2”.

Eminem and Rihanna score their second No.1 duet this week as “The Monster” climbs a spot to No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart, giving both of them their eighth chart-topping single here, the song also achieving Gold (●) in sales.

In its sixth year, Face The Music has brought together music industry leaders to discuss ideas and the issues affecting the industry.

The Red Hot Summer Tour featuring Suzi Quatro has sold out in record time in Tasmania.

The Angels have completed their second album with Dave Gleeson. The ‘Talk The Talk’ album will be released in January.

Elvis Costello is currently out on a solo tour of the U.S. east coast and settled for two nights (Monday and Tuesday) at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY.

Chris Isaak is headed for a guest sting on TV Land's hit Hot in Cleveland.

The stars have gathered to pay tribute to Jack White.

CBS will salute one of the most significant events in television and music history on Sunday, February 9 with The Night That Changed America: A Grammy® Salute To The Beatles.

73-year old Nancy Sinatra, the former popstar daughter of the legendary Frank Sinatra, will release a new album in December.

Black Sabbath are starting to think about wrapping up their comeback tour but not until they play ten more North American cities, eight if which are in Canada, this coming March and April.

Robbie Williams and Spiderbait have new release albums this week.

John Butler Trio have released their first music in four years with a brand new song titled ‘Only One’.

Pharrell predicts that we haven't seen the last of the madness of Miley Cyrus.

Popstar Selena Gomez will perform 13 shows across Australasia in early 2014.

Pokey LaFarge, the brand new signing by Jack White to his Third Man Records label, will play Australian dates next March.

The ever so Frenchy so chic Phoenix will perform headline shows outside of Future Music Festival for Sydney and Melbourne in March.

The Oasis story will be coming to a book soon with thanks to the band's former manager Alan McGee.

The costumes of Dame Nellie Melba, Kylie Minogue and Dame Edna Everage will go on display at the Arts Centre in Melbourne this week.

U2 is under new management according to Billboard.

David Bowie has released the next video instalment from The Next Day.