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EMI’s Parlophone Records has been officially folded into Warner Music making way for new release announcements for albums from Moby and David Guetta this week.

The family of Roy Orbison has released the second album in their bootleg series of concerts and the first submitted by a fan.

City & Colour have released the new video for ‘Thirst’ as well as announcing some intimate Australia dates.

Hip-hop artist Mickey Avalon will return to Australia in October.

Avril Lavigne’s wedding apparently turned into a “wild all-night party”.

Ed Sheeran thought his career wouldn’t work out because he was ‘chubby and ginger’.

When Leonard Cohen learned today that two of his U.K. concerts were scheduled on days of solemn religious observance, he respectfully asked AEG to move the dates.

Travis keep things ‘Moving’ with the second single from their keenly-awaited new album, ‘Where You Stand’. Both out August 19th.

Jennifer Lopez was reportedly paid $1.5 million to perform for the Turkmenistan leader.

The Red Bull Music Academy will set up its own stage at Splendour In The Grass.

Motorhead has been forced to cancel the balance of their summer tour dates, including five festivals, because of ongoing medical problems for Lemmy Kilmister.

Elton John has released the lyric video for ‘Home Again’, the first taste of his upcoming album ‘The Diving Board’.

You Am I’s first three albums returned to the ARIA album chart after being reissued by Sony last week.

Celine Dion has covered the Daniel Merriweather song ‘Water and a Flame’. It will be the title track of her next album and is furious that Celine doesn’t even know he wrote it. She thinks it is an Adele song.

Warner Music will reissue editions of the albums from Australia’s country legend John Williamson.

You Am I guitarist Davey Lane will take the night off from You Am I ‘Hi Fi Daily Double’ tour to perform for the City of Yarra’s Leaps and Bounds festival on July 10.

Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons has been enlisted as the Associate Producer for the soundtrack to the new Coen Brothers movie ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’.

Moby has recruited some of his famous friends including Wayne Coyne of Flaming Lips and Mark Lanegan from Screaming Trees for his next album ‘Innocents’.

Lou Reed was rushed to a Long Island hospital on Sunday after he became dehydrated.

Fresh from scoring their highest UK chart position to date with new album ‘BE’ and playing a much-talked about secret show at Glastonbury this weekend, Beady Eye today announce a November UK headline tour.

Following their headline performances at this year’s Glastonbury festival, The Rolling Stones and Mumford and Sons have both seen ticket demand almost double, despite splitting opinions, according to online ticket marketplace Seatwave.

Ian Anderson has never been a ‘normal’ rock star. His erstwhile band were named after the inventor of the seed drill and he is generally more interested in ‘Country Life’ than sex drugs and Rock & Roll but he is an enormously charismatic performer and his music has always had real depth and meaning.

Susan Boyle keeps asking friends to set her up on a date.

Robin Thicke has joked he is considering changing his name to Blurred Lines.

The Gothic musical, The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County with a book by Stephen King and words and music by John Mellencamp and T Bone Burnett will tour the mid-west and southeast U.S. this fall.

Ella Fitzgerald is regarded by many as the finest female jazz vocalist of all time, with a seminal body of work that continues to inspire multiple generations of fans around the world. So the discovery of a cache of never-before-released vintage Fitzgerald performances is a major musical event, and the release of that material marks

Armed with “Bagboy,” the band’s first new song in nine years, the Pixies will launch the first leg of what will be a massive global tour on September 29 in Paris, France.