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Blues legend Charlie Musselwhite has a mainstream hit in the USA. For the first time in his five decade career Musselwhite has a hit album on the Billboard chart.

The set times for All Tomorrow’s Parties curated by The Drones has been announced.

Neil Young and Crazy Horse will play an intimate theatre show at Melbourne’s The Plenary on the upcoming tour next month.

Gary Clark Jr has announced his own music festival. The 1st annual Maverick Music Festival will be held in San Antonio, Texas in March.

Parlophone Records, the only record label smart enough to sign The Beatles, has been sold to Warner Music for £487 million ($AUD744 million).

They Might Be Giants have launched a free music app and it features a different song every day from their upcoming album ‘Nanobots’.

Mark Seymour’s next album ‘Seventh Heaven Club’ will introduce his singer/songwriter daughter Hannah to the fans.

The Hollies chose New Zealand to kick off their year long 50th Anniversary Tour, starting last Wednesday in Palmerstown North and winding through Dunedin and Napier to their fourth concert on Monday night in Hamilton.

Florence Welch is delighted to unveil her first, stunning art-deco influenced, capsule collection Flotique jewellery.

The World’s Greatest Party Band, The B-52s announce today that they will return to the UK for three shows this August, the tour will see them play the following dates:

Sir Paul McCartney reportedly left streetcar riders in New Orleans amazed on a recent ride.

Rihanna is the most popular musician for inspiring people to learn the English language, according to a new study.

Justin Timberlake has revealed the tracklisting and album cover for ‘The 20/20 Experience’.

Mariah Carey has recorded the main song for the new Disney movie ‘Oz The Great and Powerful, Disney’s prequel to The Wizard of Oz.

For the second time in a week, the U.K.’s Cooking Vinyl has announced the signing of a veteran artist for worldwide services.

Kylie Minogue is making a serious attempt to take off in America. She has signed with Jay Z’s music label Roc Nation.

The National Blues Museum is currently on track to open in St. Louis late next year.

With the eagerly-awaited GRAMMY awards airing this Sunday, Spotify looked at song and album streams to predict which nominees would walk away with the coveted gilded gramophones if it were up to Spotify users.

The Wanted have landed their own reality show.

iTunes has sold 25 billion downloads with ‘Money Dreams (Goksel Vancin Remix’ by Chase Buch being the title of the 25 billionth song sold.

Mumford & Sons say award nominations are ‘good for business’.

Madonna is auctioning her tour costumes to benefit those affected by Hurricane Sandy.

The Recording Academy has announced that Elton John, Mavis Staples, Mumford and Sons, Zac Brown and Britney Howard of the Alabama Shakes will be doing a special salute to the late Levon Helm of the Band on this Sunday’s Grammy Awards.

The legendary Eric Burdon has been added as a speaker at SXSW next month in Austin, Texas.

Tool, featuring vocalist Maynard James Keenan, guitarist Adam Jones, drummer Danny Carey and bassist Justin Chancellor, will return to Australia and New Zealand in April but there is no new music.

Music sales in Australia in 2012 increased by 4% giving the Australian Music Industry its first upward trend since 2009.

Prince has used his mysterious new social media character, 3rd Eye Girl, to release his second new website in less than a month, complete with a brand new song called ‘Breakfast Can Wait’.

Michael Gudinski celebrated the 40th anniversary of the start of Mushroom with a 7-hour showcase of the labels new acts and the announcement of the promotion of his son, Matt.

Peter Frampton has attacked record labels saying their days are numbered after still waiting more than two months for the release of his duet on The Voice with Terry McDermott.