Veteran US rock band Chicago have released a song about the shutdown on America.

Speakers have been announced for the WAM Music Conference in Perth in November with Noise11’s Paul Cashmere joining a list of music industry identities including Danny Rogers of St Jerome’s Festival, Clive Hodson of Perfect Pitch Publishing and Will Lanarch-Jones of Parallel Management.

Jeremy Neale has announced a national headline tour to coincide with his long awaited debut EP ‘In Stranger Times’ due on November 1st through Create/Control.

The Roots bandleader, Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson, will release his book titled ‘Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation’ on October 22.

Katherine Jackson has reportedly "vowed" to appeal court case against AEG Live over Michael Jackson's death.

Following Jeff Hanneman's sad departure from the world of metal, Tom Araya has suggested that two songs featuring Hanneman will appear on the next Slayer album.

The Jonas Brothers have cancelled their tour only two day before it was set to begin citing a "deep rift" between the three brothers.

Electronic act Flume was the major winner of the Carlton Dry Independent Music Awards, held last night in Melbourne picking up four awards.

‘Pure Heroine’ by Lorde is the most streamed debut album ever for Spotify.

Dave Davies of The Kinks is planning to go back on the road and create a documentary along the way.

Queens of the Stone Age will tour Australia and New Zealand with Nine Inch Nails in March 2014.

Elton John ‘The Diving Board’ has failed to impact with his Australian fans despite being his most successful album in over a decade in the UK and over 30 years in the USA.

Mark Brandon ‘Chopper’ Read has lost his battle with liver cancer at the age of 58.

The Lorde ‘Heroine’ album has become the second fastest selling album of 2013 in Australia outselling the next three albums by Haim, Hunters & Collectors and Justin Timberlake.

American band We Are Scientists will perform in Australia in January.

Melbourne’s Vaudeville Smash has delivered three new songs with a Halloween feel.

The reformed original members of Sugababes have laid down a cover of Lorde’s number one hit ‘Royals’.

Melbourne’s Dallas Crane have reformed, reactivated and are recording.

Sinead O’Connor has once again taken Miley Cyrus to task after statements she made during her interview with Matt Lauer.

Phil Chevron, the guitarist for The Pogues, has lost his battle with cancer.

The Dead Daisies/Noiseworks frontman Jon Stevens reports he is on the mend after breaking his leg and dislocating his thumb in Queensland one week before The Dead Daisies US tour.

Eric Clapton's 2013 Crossroad guitar festival from New York City 2013 will be released on CD and DVD next month.

The RMIT Gallery in Melbourne will feature 40 years of Mushroom in the popular culture exhibition ‘Music, Melbourne and Me’ and the desk of Michael Gudinski will have a starring role.

Daryl Hall will continue to invite music artists over to his house for some jamming with the renewal of Live From Daryl's House for 2014.

Lionel Richie is on the road with a show that powers through the vast majority of his many hits.

The east coast will host a rare solo tour by Elvis Costello, his first in over ten years.

A fire started in the kitchen at B.B. King's Blues Club on Beale Street in Memphis on Monday morning, damaging the recently refurbished facility.

‘The Boy Castaways’, the bizarre new movie starring Paul Capsis, Tim Rogers and Megan Washington, will have its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival on October 13.

After selling out eight U.S club shows almost instantaneously and a sell-out UK/European tour, The Pixies have added 33 new shows to their world tour.

Stupid has a poster girl. Miley Cyrus will stop being "sexual" at 40.