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Tina Turner has tied the knot in Switzerland.

A new box set chronicling the career of the group Rainbow between 1975 and 1984 will possibly make it to the market before the end of the year.

Moondance, one of Van Morrison’s most beloved albums, will be remastered and re-released in a variety of formats on September 30 via Warner Brothers.

The Pet Shop Boys may have some blurred lines on the cover of their new album, Electric, but its another Blurred Lines that threatens to stop them from scoring their first number 1 album in the U.K. in twenty years.

Ben Harper is a superstar almost everywhere except his home in the US and, to a lesser extent, the UK.

The Living End will headline Summernats 27 in Canberra in January.

Beyonce has added third shows for her Mrs Carter World Tour for Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland but don’t expect that to be the end of it.

Muse will return to Australia and start a nation tour in Perth with Birds of Tokyo on November 30.

It is now less than two weeks until the 16th annual edition of Fuji Rock Festival, which takes place on the summery ski slopes of Naeba Ski Resort, Niigata, Japan.

The album chart could be a battle between Pink and Jay-Z this week.

Josh Pyke and Megan Washington are both featured writers on the new Wendy Matthews album ‘The Welcome Fire’.

It has been more than ten years since Simple Minds set foot on North American shores for the purpose of a tour. That drought comes to an end starting October 15 at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles.

Paradise Valley, the latest album from Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician John Mayer, will be released on August 20, and is available now to pre-order on iTunes.

Kanye West apparently wants to try for another baby with Kim Kardashian.

On Tuesday, David Bowie released the video for his song Valentine’s Day.

Cory Monteith reportedly died from a lethal combination of heroin and alcohol.

The Falls Festival will also play in Byron Bay this year.

In the wake of the Trayvon Martin verdict in Florida, Stevie Wonder has made the decision to avoid Florida and all other “Stand Your Ground” states until the laws are changed.

Mazzy Star will return after a seventeen year absence with the album Seasons of Your Day, due on September 24 via Rhymes of an Hour Records.

Pearl Jam played their first North American show of the year in London, Ontario, Canada on Tuesday night.

Zoot’s final performance filmed during the Rick Springfield and Friends Cruise in November, 2011 will be released on CD and DVD.

APRA will hold the 3rd Art Music Awards in Sydney in August.

Yesterday it was announced that Brian Viglione from Dresden Dolls is the new drummer for The Violent Femmes, replacing founding drummer Victor DeLorenzo.

The Meredith Music Festival will feature Chic featuring Nile Rodgers and The Melvins.

Paul McCartney has just added Japanese dates to his “Out There” tour making an Australian tour now very likely.

Unreleased Bob Dylan and George Harrison collaborations will surface on Dylan’s ‘The Bootleg Series Vol. 10’.

Dallas Green will return to Australia in November for a national City and Colour tour.

Busby Marou and Casey Donovan will perform at Australia’s Indigenous festival Boomerang in October.

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has announced the release of his first ever comic book ‘The Sun Is Sick’.

Harry Styles has been writing songs with Snow Patrol. The One Direction hunk is busy on his Take Me Home Tour with bandmates Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne and Niall Horan but has made time for a venture with the UK group.