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Kathy Griffin has two words for where Australia is potentially heading in the next election. “Sarah Palin”.

Boy & Bear see their second album “Harlequin Dream” debut at the top becoming the 333rd album to enter at the top of the Australian Album charts.

After a full week of sales, Katy Perry scores her third No.1 single in Australia as “Roar” is up a couple of places from last weeks No.3 debut to the top spot on the ARIA Singles Chart this week.

A cave that everyone figured had been fully mined may be ready to spring forth with even more jewels. Reports across the web say that a new set of Beatles performances on the BBC will be released in October.

Depeche Mode have hit the U.S. shores with an opening salvo at the DTE Energy Music Theatre outside of Detroit, MI.

Playwright Tom Stoppard has created a new radio drama for BBC 2 influenced by Pink Floyd’s album Dark Side of the Moon.

Linda Ronstadt has said in an interview with AARP that she has Parkinson’s Disease and it has made her unable to sing.

Sydney band Boy & Bear will have Australia’s biggest selling album this week by the end of today.

Katy Perry ‘Roar’ will easily top the Australian singles chart this weekend while Lady Gaga ‘Applause’ won’t even make the Top 10.

Ash returned to the Corner Hotel to play their breakthrough ‘1977’ album in its entirety.

Coldplay quietly released a brand new song today. ‘Atlas’ will be included on the soundtrack to the Hunger Games sequel.

Tears For Fears celebrate thirty years since their recording debut with the release of The Hurting: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition on October 22 via Mercury/UMe.

Pink has written two songs on the forthcoming Cher album ‘Closer To The Truth’.

Green Day will headline Soundwave 2014 and you can add Alice In Chains and Stone Temple Pilots (with Chester Bennington) to the list as well.

Elton John has released the first video from his upcoming album ‘The Diving Board’.

Green Day played their breakout album, Dookie, in its entirety in London this week.

New Releases for week commencing Friday 23rd August, 2013 (unless otherwise noted below).

American R&B singer performed to a near empty stadium in South Africa this week after soccer fans vacated the game after it finished instead of staying for the entertainment.

Engelbert Humperdinck has recruited Lulu to sing with him on his upcoming Duets CD and will head to the studio over the coming week to lay down the track.

Singer songwriter Billy Bragg will perform one show in Sydney in September.

Rapper Coolio, who has been in music for more than twenty years, is giving it all up to advance his cooking career.

Aretha Franklin has been going through something serious medically the last few years, but nobody but her closest confidants know what it is.

Music promoter and producer Sid Bernstein, most famous for bringing the Beatles to Carnegie Hall and Shea Stadium, has died. He was 95.

David Cassidy was arrested early Wednesday morning outside of Albany, NY for driving while intoxicated.

Geoffrey Rush made a surprise cameo in the latest production of ‘Singin’ In The Rain’ from The Production Company in Melbourne last night.

The Face The Music conference has announced the first round of speakers with ARIA’s Dan Rosen and John Watson of Eleven/John Watson Management heading up with list.

Bluesfest will announce the first round of artists next Tuesday, August 27.

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart makes as estimated $25-$30 million a year.

It’s a small race for the No.1 album spot this week between local favorites Boy & Bear with their second album “Harlequin Dream” and US rapper and OddFuture member Earl Sweatshirt with his second album “Doris”, which features Frank Ocean, Tyler the Creator, Mac Miller and RZA.