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Congrats to Guy Sebastian and wife Jules. They are the proud parents of Hudson James Sebastian.

Nu-metal is reborn for a new generation at 2012’s Soundwave – plus a million other angry young men play and watch. You know the drill.

The new Lexus GS range will be the first car in Australia to feature DAB+ digital radio as standard equipment.

Melbourne’s The Temper Trap have scored a headline slot at Stubbs for SXSW.

Rapper Nas will be a featured speaker at SXSW in coming weeks.

Pop legend Leo Sayer will perform at Sydney’s Mardi Gras tonight on the back of a Ute.

Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Brown will be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey on her OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network next weekend.

Australian performers Clare Bowditch and Tim Levinson (Urthboy, The Herd) have joined PPCA as official PPCA Patrons.

In May, 2012 the four ‘Archie Meets Kiss’ comic books will be compiled into one book.

Who in the 1970s would have ever thought Lou Reed would ever get to 70? Today Lewis Allan Reed of Brooklyn, New York turns 70 years old.

Italian singer and songwriter Lucio Dalla has died in Switzerland at the age of 68.

Switchfoot have cancelled their Australian tour including their appearance on the remainder of the Soundwave Festival and flown urgently back home to San Diego because of a family emergency.

T.I. has signed Australian rapper Iggy Azalea to his record label Grand Hustle.

Melbourne talk-radio station MTR has gone off the air after the station was placed into administration earlier today.

Lady Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta headed to Harvard University this week for the launch of their Born This Way Foundation.

Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris Jackson has taken to Twitter to slam gossip site TMZ.com over a story claiming Michael Jackson did not sing on the ‘Michael’ album.

One Direction’s three Australian shows sold out in just three minutes this morning.

Playground Weekender promoters have salvaged the flooded festival and the show will go on across various venues in Sydney this weekend.

Cold Chisel will play some intimate shows in Sydney and Melbourne for the launch of their new album ‘No Plans’.

Warner Music will stream The Warner Sound showcases from SXSW from March 13 to 15.

Engelbert Humperdinck will represent the UK at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest.

Pseudo Echo will mark their 30th anniversary tonight with a one-off show in Melbourne.

The medical examination of Davy Jones has confirmed that The Monkees singer died from a heart attack.

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan will use the SXSW podium to announce his plans for the new Pumpkins album ‘Oceania’.

The surviving members of The Monkees, Peter Tork, Mike Nesmith and Micky Dolenz, have each made individual comments about the death of their buddy, Monkees singer Davy Jones.