Cheap Trick will perform in Australia from April as part of Under The Southern Stars replacing Live+.

The 2021 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California has officially been scrapped due to ongoing Covid-19 concerns.

SXSW 2021 will once again be an online event with acts from all over the world performing from all over the world.

‘Come From Away’ is one of the most powerful theatre shows of the 21st century. Now, as Australia returns to a Covid norm after 2020, the impact of this show has increased substantially.

Josh Pyke is bringing back his music industry grants program the JP Partnership for a seventh year.

With the death of Larry King at age 87 on the weekend, the world has lost one of the greatest interviewers of all-time.

Did you enjoy 2021’s Triple J Hottest 100? Fuck yeah. 61 times to be exact. The Triple J Hottest 100 of 2021 features 19 songs dropping the F bomb at total of 61 times.

Fanny Lumsden has taken home five Golden Guitar awards at the 49th Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA) held over the weekend.

Just like last week, it's a one-two entry to the ARIA Albums Chart this week, with the sixth studio album for local rapper Illy called "The Space Between" entering at No.1, becoming his second successive chart-topper locally.

Organisers of the U.K.'s Glastonbury Festival have cancelled its 2021 edition due to the Covid-19 pandemic for the second year running.

Ross Wilson and The Living End have been added to the expanding Sounds Better Together concert from the Victorian government.

Red Hot Summer’s Launceston show on March 13 is a sell-out.

Barry Gibb scores his first ever solo No.1 Album in Australia this week with a collection of re-recorded Bee Gees tracks alongside multiple artists on "Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook 1'.

INXS manager C.M. Murphy has died at the age of 66. He was suffering from Mantle Cell Lymphoma.

Six Red Hot Summer shows have now sold-out as the tour gets set for kick-out in Tasmania in March.

Shakira has sold her music publishing catalogue to Hipgnosis Songs.

Country legend Marty Stuart has honored his late father-in-law and, Johnny Cash with a newly released music video for the song ‘I’ve Been Around’.

Taylor Swift secures a fourth straight week at No.1 with her ninth album "evermore", which equals the four weeks her eighth set "folklore" (TW-7) achieved in August of 2020.

Neil Young has sold 50 per cent of his music catalogue said to be worth an estimated $150 million (£UK110 million/$AU192 million).

Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese has voted early and voted often for the Triple J Hottest 100.

Red Hot Summer’s Swan Valley event at Sandalford Wines in April has sold-out.

The Grammy Awards have been postponed from 31 January to 14 March 2021 citing Covid-19 as the reason for the delay.

Secret Sounds, Five Four Entertainment and Groove today confirm that their forthcoming concert series, Summer Sounds Festival, will proceed with the first shows taking place this weekend.

Roskilde is going ahead for 2021. Kendrick Lamar has been announced as a new headliner for Roskilde Festival 2021.

George Michael's classic Wham! hit Last Christmas has become the U.K.'s first number one of 2021.

UK producer Steve Brown has died. At this stage a Cause of Death has not been revealed.

The artists we lost on 2020. Noise11.com In Memoriam

Continuing the Noise11 top news stories of 2020, Mick Fleetwood became a social media sensation, AC/DC coins debut and live music events for 2021 start happening again.

By the second half of 2020 Covid-19 had become the greatest threat to mankind since any war. Artists adjusted to iso, performing and recording remotely across the world while the fans watched from home.

As Covid increases and isolation locked us down the music world faces challenges with cancellations globally but new music kept on coming. Here are Noise11.com's top music news headlines from April to June 2020.