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Songwriter, producer Todd Rundgren has will be awarded the Les Paul Award in January.

Producer, performer, songwriter Steven Wilson has put many of his major and side-projects on hold while he concentrates on his own solo shows as well as remixing classic albums for Yes, XTC and King Crimson.

Harley Streten (aka Flume) has dominated the nominations for the ARIA Awards with eight nominations and already one win.

UK singer songwriter Jake Bugg spent time at the iconic Sun Studios in Memphis laying down demos for his new album ‘Shangri La’.

One-part of N*E*R*D and one-half of production duo The Neptunes, Pharrell Williams, has married his model girlfriend.

Liam Payne has spoke out against a crazed Aussie fan who broke into his hotel room last week.

Barnardos Australia will team up with Beyoncé and her #BeyGood charity during her Mrs Carter Show World Tour.

Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Les Misérables has announced details of the latest production and of its stars that includes Simon Gleeson as Jean Valjean.

Alex Lloyd will tour Australia for the first time since 2008.

When Australian Branka Delic married Gonzalo Cladera in Las Vegas n Saturday Jon Bovi Jovi accompanied her down the aisle.

Lynryd Skynyrd will perform live in Australia for the very first time next February.

Dave Matthews Band will team up with Gary Clark Jr for shows in Sydney and Melbourne at Easter.

Jamaican reggae great Ernest Ranglin has responded to the announcement that he had withdrawn from Bluesfest 2014 after the suggestion that he got a better offer.

Dave Stewart is about to launch his own web TV show called The Ringmaster.

Mariah Carey says she is about ready to get back to work after being sidelined with a shoulder injury while filming a music video earlier this year.

‘Hold On Forever’, the lead song from Jason Singh’s solo debut ‘Humanequin’ is the song you hear in the promo for the 7 Network’s ‘Million Dollar Minute’.

Following Moe Carlson’s departure from the group, Protest The Hero have announced new permanent drummer, Mike Ieradi.

This writer has mixed thoughts about The Pixies. They were all the fashion at one time; bought the albums, went to see them, and was very disappointed.

Jan Kuehnemund of the all-female metal band Vixen died on Thursday after a battle with cancer at the age of 51.

Lisa McCune and Teddy Tahu Rhodes have been named as the stars of the next Australian production of The King And I.

Artists have until the end of Sunday (Texas time) to apply to showcase at SXSW in Austin next March.

Canadian crooner Michael Bublé has helped Australia’s newest radio network SmoothFM win an Australian Commercial Radio Award (ACRA).

Miley Cyrus scores her second No.1 album in Australia with her first RCA album “Bangerz” becoming the 29th chart-topper and the 24th No.1 debut this year (so far).

Katy Perry is spending a seventh week at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with her smash song “Roar”, making it the second longest running No.1 of 2013 behind Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” at eight weeks.

Indigenous music icon Archie Roach has been announced as a keynote speaker for the Australian World Music Expo (AWME) in Melbourne in November.

Country singer Cal Smith, who topped the country charts three times in the 70’s, died on Thursday (October 10) in Branson, MO. He was 81.

Playwright Tom Stoppard wrote the radio play, Darkside, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s Darkside of the Moon.

Ernest Ranglin says he is not coming to Australia for Bluesfest next year because he didn’t even know about it until he was announced.

Mojo Album of the Year award winner John Grant will return to Australia in January for the first time with a full band but so far only one date has been announced.

The death of the Pogues long-time guitarist Philip Chevron on Tuesday did not come as a surprise. He had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2006 and a statement in 2012 said that it had returned and was “fatal”.