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The annual UK ‘best album’ Mercury Prize announces its nominees for 2012.

Mike Tyson wants to carve a career in musicals.

When Nirvana burst onto the scene in 1991, the music they played spoke directly to an angry and disenfranchised generation.

A triple-whammy announcement sees indie stars Grizzly Bear, Beirut and The War On Drugs book Harvest sideshows.

Michael Jackson’s concert promoters have withdrawn a $17.5 million dollar insurance claim over loss of revenue from his ‘This Is It’ series of concerts.

Billie Joe Armstrong insists Bon Jovi are the “worst” band he’s ever played alongside.

Clive Davis is one of the most important record executives of the last forty years.

Dave Grohl and the boys get caught up in iPhone 5 hype and perform an unplugged set at the launch.

The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC announced this years honourees for their Kennedy Honors.

The unstoppable Ed Sheeran has added the third and final Festival Hall show and guest Passenger.

The Summadayze 2013 line-up has been revealed with The Chemical Brother and Mark Ronson doing DJ sets and a performance from M.I.A. leading the line-up.

The eagerly awaited debut album from Austin guitarist Gary Clark Jr has a title. It will be called ‘Blak and Blu’.

Morrissey will return to Australia for the first time in a decade in December.

Elton John will perform a one-off show in Australia with Pnau in November.

EMI have paired with Future Entertainment to release music and support dance artists as Future Music.

The soundtrack to the ‘Scientology’ movie from Paul Thomas Anderson by Jonny Greenwood is on Spotify.

Prinnie Stevens and Mahalia Barnes, finalists on The Voice, offer their Soul Divas Tour up and down the East Coast.

Electro gods The Presets have organised an in-store signing at Sydney’s Hum Records.

Canadian post-rock legends Godspeed You! Black Emperor book ATP side shows in February.

The members of the Velvet Underground were dealt a partial blow in their suit against the Andy Warhol Foundation over the licensing and use of the iconic Warhol banana used on their album The Velvet Underground and Nico.

The groundbreaking trip-hop classic from Massive Attack, Blue Lines, gets the deluxe reissue treatment.

Dick Wagner has played with a long list of rock greats including Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Aerosmith, KISS, Peter Gabriel, Meat Loaf, Etta James, Rod Stewart and many more.

Go-Betweens legend Robert Forster books his first solo tour in two years up the East Coast of Australia.

Kylie Minogue has described headlining the BBC Proms in the Park event on Saturday (08.09.12) as a “magical” experience.

Lady Gaga is rumoured to be getting married in Venice.

Steve Earle has revealed that he is going back on one of his old rules and is writing finally his memoir.

It’s been a long time coming but Sonic Youth will finally put out their vintage live album Smart Bar: Chicago 1985 on November 14 via Goofin’ Records.

Lady Antebellum have created a full Christmas album, which will be released in October.

Justin Bieber is vexed by people who write him off as nothing more than a teen pop idol.

Jennifer Hudson has forgiven her brother-in-law for murdering her mother, brother and nephew in 2008, saying it is “not his fault” that he shot them to death.