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Britney Spears is reportedly at the centre of a bidding war over her planned Las Vegas residency.

Acclaimed Icelandic post-rocker band Sigur Rós will headline an Eden Session on Sunday June 30, one of just a few shows they will play in the UK this summer.

Lady Gaga is teaching her dog to draw.

Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello will fill in for E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt on the upcoming Bruce Springsteen Australian tour.

Soon Australian’s everywhere will be able to lick the back of Molly Meldrums’s head … and Paul Kelly, Kylie Minogue, John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John’s as well.

Ozzy Osbourne was injured in a fire at his Beverly Hills, California home on Thursday morning.

Prince has decided to play six “surprise” shows as the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis staring tonight and running through Friday with each night dedicated to a different purpose.

Sweden’s Avicii will headline the EDM stage for the Future Music Festival in Australia.

Boz Scaggs will release his first new studio album in five years, Memphis, in March via 429 Records.

Actor Conrad Bain, who played Phillip Drummond in the TV show ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ has died at the age of 89. His co-star Janet Jackson has commented.

Dido will release her fourth studio album ‘Girl Who Got Away’ in March.

Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club have contributed to a charity recording of Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Ingrid Michaelson and 21 current or former students of the Sandy Hook Elementary School, site of the December mass shooting where 26 people were killed.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have announced a series of very special events to mark the forthcoming release of their fifteenth studio album ‘Push the Sky Away’ out 18th February on Bad Seed Ltd.

Mark Poston, EMI Music Australia’s Chairman & Senior Vice President of Marketing, is leaving the company.

Suede have announced the release date of their brand new studio album, ‘Bloodsports’ on 18th March 2013.

WAITS/CORBIJN ’77-’11, a collector’s edition linen slipcase book limited to 6,600 copies, is scheduled for release on 8th May.

As if the world doesn’t have enough problems we hear that Kris Kross will reunite.

Rose Tattoo will take the place of The Angels on the upcoming Australian tour for Guns N Roses and ZZ Top.

A new U2 album could be with or without you in 2013, then again maybe not. Bono says the band has been working on a follow-up to 2009’s ‘No Line On The Horizon’ but doesn’t care if it takes 10 years to produce.

Sir Elton John says becoming a father again is “unbelievable”.

Dragonforce are the stars in a new television commercial for Capitol One’s mobile banking app.

Paul Dean of Loverboy has been revealed as the man behind the desk producing the new solo album for Goddo’s Greg Godovitz.

Seattle band Minus The Bear dropped in to see Daryl Hall for the latest edition of Live From Daryl’s House, Hall’s monthly online TV show.

The Bobby Darin Show, which ran on NBC in 1972 and 1973, is headed to home video via MPI according to TV Shows on DVD.

Last year, Metallica announced that they would be putting out a 3D concert film and the footage was shot in August during shows in Vancouver. Since that time, little has been said about the movie.

Lady Gaga is said to be so ‘obsessed’ with Michael Jackson that she wants to purchase his private theme park.

As hinted last week by Noise11, the original line-up of Happy Mondays will tour Australia for the first time ever in May.

Cornerstones of British electronic music, OMD, return to jumpstart and rewire the canon with brand new album ‘English Electric’, out April 8th on 100% Records.