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The legendary Chicago have recorded a cover of an old Spiral Starecase hit with the Les Deux Love Orchestra for what may be the start of an entire album of songs of classic R&B.

The Blue Sky Riders, featuring Kenny Loggins, Gary Burr and Georgia Middleman, have set a 20 city tour for this summer in support of their album Finally Home.

Kylie Minogue thinks “there are no shortcuts to learning your craft”.

John Oates is building his already impressive discography month-by-month, single-by-single.

Steven Tyler of Aerosmith has some catching up to do.

A combination of major releases and returning favorites by veteran artists lead to the third best week for vets in the last year as measured by our Veteran Artist Index.

Neon Trees will tour Australia and New Zealand with Taylor Swift for The Red Tour starting in November.

Australian artist Jeffrey Smart has died of renal failure at the age of 91.

Boy George is back with ‘Coming Home’, a brand new song from producers Dharma Protocol.

There has been an outpouring of love and admiration in response to the death earlier today of Sopranos star James Gandolfini.

Celebrities worldwide showed their respects to actor James Gandolfini in tweets after the 51-year Sopranos star died in Italy today from a suspected heart attack.

The Break have been forced to postpone their show in Sydney on Saturday due to a serious family illness.

Kylie Minogue thinks ‘there are no shortcuts to learning your craft’.

The Billy Thorpe Scholarship has been announced by QMusic in Queensland for 2013.

Apparently the injury sustained by Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, leader of Toots and the Maytals, on May 19 was much more serious than originally thought.

Cher would have loved to audition for The Voice when she was younger.

After 32 years as the on-again/off-again lead singer of British new wave band Bow Wow Wow, Annabella Lwin left to work on her solo career.

Grammy Award winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Levon Helm has had a road named in his honour.

Ahmet Zappa is a hit author. His children’s book ‘Because I’m Your Dad’ has made no. 10 on the New York Times Children’s Best Sellers List.

Most people today know him from late-night TV commercials hawking various packages but, for those listening to country from the 50’s to the 70’s, he was a regular visitor to the airwaves. Slim Whitman died earlier today after being admitted to the hospital on Tuesday after suffering heart problems. He was 90.

The Rolling Stones have had their entire catalogue of music remastered for iTunes users and released it on the site today.

Ash will return to Australia in August and perform their first official album ‘1977’ in its entirety.

Music, especially the country genre, lost one of its most important writers on Wednesday with the passing of Chet Flippo. Chet died early Wednesday from undisclosed causes. He was 69.

A documentary has been made to tell the story of iconic Australian 80s punk band Cosmic Psychos.

Bonnaroo 2013, held last weekend, is now just a memory but we’ve managed to track down set lists for six veteran artists who played the festival, including Paul McCartney’s epic 38-song/3-hour show on Friday night.

Justin Bieber will tour Australia and New Zealand in November and December.

Australian artists wishing to showcase at the South By Southwest Music & Media Festival and Conference in Austin in 2014 will be able to apply earlier this year.

Gurrumul and Archie Roach lead the first announcement for the inaugural Boomerang Festival, to be held in Byron Bay in October.

The Voice Grand Finale screened across Australia on Monday night, and with the multiple performances from guest acts and judges, it seems like the winner Harrison Craig might not be able to secure himself the No.1 spot in the country this week with his newly released winners single “Unconditional”.

Singer songwriter Michael Paynter sang in the official launch of Dry July this week to help raises funds to make the lives of people suffering from cancer a little better.