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The nominees for the 2013 Juno Awards were announced on Tuesday morning.

Papa Roach, Rise To Remain, Gogol Bordello, Lit, Escape The Fate and Blitz Kids are amongst the 49 new acts added to the Download 2013 line up, in what is set to be THE biggest weekend in the rock calendar.

Harry Styles has reportedly ‘always liked’ UK correspondent Billie JD Porter.

Paddy Power expects Emeli Sande to dominate proceedings offering virtually unbackable odds of 1/6 and 1/10 to pick up Best Album and Best Female respectively.

Britney Spears is apparently getting close to a ‘normal’ guy she met through friends.

War Child and O2 hosted a sold-out gig at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire yesterday with over 2000 British music fans enjoying an intimate gig headlined by Muse and supported by The Vaccines.

Michael Jackson’s son Prince Michael has paid tribute to his late father’s parenting skills saying ‘dad raised me right’.

It’s that time of year when all the big festival lineups are announced and today’s includes the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival to be held from June 13 to 16 in Manchester, TN.

Kraftwerk will perform eight of their albums for Sydney’s Vivid Live in May.

Jessica Ducrou’s Village Sounds has been appointed the sole Australian booking agent for Re Harvey’s Crucial Music roster.

Six Feet Under are no longer coming to Australia for Soundwave.

Maybe…probably not….definitely no.

A Carole King live show is nothing but music. There was no flash set, loud costumes or special effects. This was Carole King, music and a A-list band including Danny Kortchmar, Russ Kunkel and Bob Glaub.

Paul McCartney once tried to do it but was turned down. Not so for Morrissey who has successfully gotten the Staples Center in Los Angeles to ban all meat for his March 1.

Fergie is pregnant with her first child.

Mindy McCready’s ex-boyfriend says her apparent suicide “didn’t come as a major shock”.

Taylor Swift’s single I Knew You Were Trouble is reportedly an ode to her ex-boyfriend Harry Styles.

Lana Del Rey today released the video for ‘Burning Desire’.

Michael Jackson’s son Prince Michael has a day job. He is now an on-air correspondent for Entertainment Tonight.

Dave Grohl is impressed by how Sir Paul McCartney is ‘willing to go off’ during jam sessions.

L.A. band Illumination Road will make their live concert debut at the Stone Music Festival on the other side of the planet in Sydney in April.

You Am I/The Pictures guitarist Dave Lane has released his first solo song.

Deniliquin’s Deni Ute Muster has won an Australian tourism award just as the next big event for the region, the Deni Blues & Roots Festival swings into action.

Irish singer songwriter Mary Coughlan will return to Australia for dates in March.

Rapper A$AP Rocky will play dates in Australia in June.

One day after coming out of nowhere and announcing at line-up featuring Van Halen and Billy Joel, Sydney’s newest music festival Stone has added some Australian acts.