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Brian May thinks The Voice is an ‘insult to music’.

Tonight and tomorrow night, Carole King will be honored with the Gershwin Prize For Songwriting at the Library of Congress and the White House, but she has also been seeking out an old tape of a song that she wrote with Hal David in 1999. Her people found the cassette (!) and it was released

The man who forever changed the sound of rock ‘n’ roll when he invented distortion, Kink’s legend Dave Davies, has recorded a brand new solo album of all original material. To be released on Cleopatra Records on June 4th , ‘I Will Be Me’ features guest appearances by The Jayhawks, Anti-Flag, award winning UK blues

Fans of The Clash will soon have access to the ultimate collection from the band ‘The Clash Sound System’.

Trevor Bolder, who played bass for Uriah Heep and David Bowie, has died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 62.

George Michael is being “kept in hospital” following his car crash.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers opened their 2013 tour last Thursday in at the Ford Center in Evansville, IN and started their five-night stand on Monday at New York’s Beacon Theatre.

Michael Franti has invited fans to create a video for his new song ‘I’m Alive’ (Life Sounds Like).

Congrats to Natalie Bassingwaighte and husband Cam McGlinchey who became a second time parents today. (May 21).

Melbourne’s Willow Beats will tour Australia from the end of May.

Bruno Mars wouldn’t feel comfortable ‘wearing a harness’ during a show.

Lena Dunham “really connects” to Demi Lovato songs.

Robin Thicke made a few high school students’ prom one to remember.

Indigenous music legend Archie Roach will perform during the football at the MCG this Saturday.

Jon Bon Jovi says getting the call his daughter had overdosed was his ‘worst moment’ as a father.

Clare Bowditch has released a very moving film clip for her new single, ‘One Little River’, from her 2012 album, The Winter I Chose Happiness.

The iconic nightclubs of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip will pay tribute to the late Ray Manzarek tonight and dim the light at 9;31pm.

Rod Stewart’s son thinks his father is ‘a plumber’.

Prince, who received the Billboard Icon Award at Sunday night’s ceremony, has announced that he’s created a unique new partnership with independent music services company Kobalt Music Group.

B.J. Thomas had his highest charting album in thirty years recently with The Living Room Sessions, a superb reimagining of many of his best known songs, sung in duets with a number of diverse artists.

Frederick “Toots” Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals was injured when a 19-year-old concert-goer hit him with a thrown bottle.

A Swedish promoter has promoted a festival appearance by Nazareth by saying it will be their last show.

Jay-Z has dismissed rumours that his wife Beyoncé Knowles is pregnant.

George Michael was ‘lucky he didn’t die’ during his recent car crash.

John Fogerty’s new album, Wrote a Song For Everyone, will be out on May 28. While much of the album is duet versions of Fogerty’s best known songs, there are also two new songs, Mystic Highway and Train of Fools.