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Mahalia Barnes

Mahalia Barnes & The Soulmates Have A Stack Of Dates in February and March

by Paul Cashmere

Mahalia Barnes is putting The Soul Mates together for a stack of shows around Australia in February and March.

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Judy Collins

Judy Collins To Perform Intimate Australian Dates In Addition To Wildflower Shows

by Paul Cashmere

Judy Collins has added a series of shows in addition to her full album performances of her classic ‘Wildflowers’ for Australia in March.

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Aretha box set Aretha Franklin

Dumb Media Falls For Aretha Franklin Parody Story Hook Line And Sinker

by Paul Cashmere

How dumb are major media outlets who published a parody site post about an Aretha Franklin song as fact today. I’m looking at you Jonesy and Amanda on WSFM.

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Eagles Melbourne 2019

Vince Gill Expected To Take On Extra Duties for Eagles Hotel California 2023 Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Eagles “new guys”, country superstar Vince Gill, will share additional spotlight when Eagles ‘Hotel California’ tour resumes in Portland in February.

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Paul Kelly and Dan Kelly at Red Hot Summer Mornington photo by Bron Robinson

Paul Kelly and Vika & Linda Perform ‘Say I Love You’ For Renée Geyer

by Paul Cashmere

Vika & Linda stayed back on Red Hot Summer in Mannum, South Australia on the weekend to perform a special tribute to Renée Geyer.

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Rickie Lee Jones photo by Ros O'Gorman

Rickie Lee Jones Reunites With Russ Titelman For ‘Pieces of Treasure’

by Paul Cashmere

Rickie Lee Jones has reunited with producer Russ Titelman for her new album ‘Pieces of Treasure’.

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Top Topham

Anthony ‘Top’ Topham, the Original Yardbirds Guitarist, Dead At Age 75

by Paul Cashmere

Anthony ‘Top’ Topham, the first guitarist for The Yardbirds, has died just two weeks after his successor Jeff Beck. He was 75.

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Bernard Fanning at Red Hot Summer Mornington photo by Bron Robinson

Bernard Fanning’s Red Hot Challenge – What To Do and How To Do It In An Hour

by Paul Cashmere

Powderfinger’s Bernard Fanning will spend the first half of 2023 out solo and on tour for Red Hot Summer. The big question for Fanning is what does a cut-down setlist look like?

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Lisa Marie Presley

Lisa Marie Presley Farewelled By Axl Rose, Alanis Morissette and Billy Corgan

by Paul Cashmere

Lisa Marie Presley’s famous friends came out to send her off. Axl Rose sang his Guns ‘n Roses classic ‘November Rain’, Billy Corgan performed an acoustic version of Smashing Pumpkins ‘To Sheila’ and Alanis Morissette performed her recent song ‘Rest’, written about Chester Bennington but appropriate in these circumstances.

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Red Hot Chilli Peppers Big Day Out Showgrounds Melbourne Australia Jan 26th 2013

Red Hot Chili Peppers Play First Show For 2023 In New Zealand

by Paul Cashmere

Red Hot Chili Peppers have kicked off their first show of 2023 for Auckland, New Zealand.

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Elton John in Melbourne 14 Jan 23 photo by Jonathan White

Elton John Performs His Final Ever Australian Show In Brisbane

by Paul Cashmere

Elton John’s Farewell Hello Brick Road tour has signed off for Australia with his final performance in Brisbane on Saturday. (21 January 2023).

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Casey Barnes Light It Up

Casey Barnes Wins Album of the Year At Golden Guitar Awards

by Paul Cashmere

Casey Barnes is the big winner for Album of the Year for ‘Light It Up’ at the 2023 Golden guitar Awards in Tamworth.

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Taylor Swift photo by Ros O'Gorman

Australian Album Chart: Taylor Swift ‘Midnights’ Is Still No 1

by Gavin Ryan

It’s an eleventh week at No.1 for Taylor Swift and her “Midnights” album in Australia.

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Kirk Hammett of Metallica by Ros O'Gorman

Metallica premiere ‘Screaming Suicide’

by Paul Cashmere

‘Screaming Suicide’ is the new Metallica song from the forthcoming ’72 Seasons’ album.

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Brian May of Queen performs at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Queen Launches Year Long ‘Greatest Live’ Series

by Paul Cashmere

Queen will premiere a Queen Live video every week for 2023 as part of the new ‘Queen The Greatest’ series on YouTube.

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Dolly Parton in concert photo by Ros O'Gorman

Dolly, Cyndi, Belinda, Gloria and Debbie Sing ‘Gonna Be For’ for ‘80 For Brady’

by Paul Cashmere

Dolly Parton, Cyndi Lauper, Gloria Estefan, Debbie Harry and Belinda Carlisle are the all-female supergroup singing ‘Gonna Be For’ for the movie ’80 For Brady’.

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David Crosby, A Day On The Green, Ros O'Gorman, Photo

Stills, Nash and Young Pay Their Respects To David Crosby

by Paul Cashmere

Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Stephen Stills have both shared their thoughts following the passing of their Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young bandmate David Crosby.

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Paul Kelly and Dan Kelly at Red Hot Summer Mornington photo by Bron Robinson

Red Hot Summer Ads More Sell-Out Shows To The List For 2023

by Paul Cashmere

Red Hot Summer has more sold out dates with Seppelsfield, Victoria show reaching capacity ahead of this weekend and the Batemans Bay show January 28 also declared a full-house.

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis perform in Melbourne at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 5 August 2016 as part of their This Unruly Mess I've Made World Tour. Photo Ros O'Gorman

Macklemore Releases New Track ‘Heroes’ Ahead of ‘Ben’ Album

by Paul Cashmere

Macklemore has a new song ‘Ben’ featuring DJ Premier, ahead of the March release for his album ‘Ben’.

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Tex Perkins and the Fat Rubber Band photo by Martin Philbey

Tex Perkins Premieres ‘(I Wanna Be) Close To You’ Video

by Paul Cashmere

Tex Perkins and the Fat Rubber Band has a new song ‘(I Wanna Be) Close To You)’ and an explanation for the song.

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Van Conner and brother Gary of Screaming Trees photo from Garys Facebook page

Van Conner Screaming Trees Dead at 55

by Paul Cashmere

Screaming Trees bass player Van Conner has died at age 55 after battling pneumonia.

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David Crosby, A Day On The Green, Ros O'Gorman, Photo

BREAKING NEWS: David Crosby Dies At Age 81

by Paul Cashmere

Rock legend David Crosby has died at the age of 81. Crosby was a founder of The Byrds and later teamed with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash for Crosby, Stills & Nash and later Neil Young for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

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Ed Sheeran photo by Ros O'Gorman

Ed Sheeran Releases Tribute To Jamal Edwards

by Music-News.com

Ed Sheeran has dropped a moving freestyle in tribute to the late Jamal Edwards, which is now live on SBTV.

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Billie Eilish Happier Than Ever

Billie Eilish Files Restraining Order Against Stalker

by Music-News.com

Billie Eilish has filed for a temporary restraining order against an alleged stalker.

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Flo Rida

Flo Rida Awarded $82 Million From Energy Drink Company

by Music-News.com

Flo Rida has been awarded $82 million (£67 million) in a lawsuit against Celsius.

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The Rolling Stones perform at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on 5 November 2014. (AAP Image/Noise 11/Ros O’Gorman) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

The Rolling Stones Join Tik Tok

by Music-News.com

The Rolling Stones have joined TikTok. The Stones back catalogue is now available to soundtrack clips on the video-sharing platform for the first time.

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Frank Turner, Photo Ros O'Gorman

Frank Turner Added To Counting Crows Australian Tour

by Paul Cashmere

UK folk/punk singer Frank Turner has been added to the Counting Crows Australian tour in March and April.

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Brian Cadd performs at the APIA Good Times Tour 2015 at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne on Sunday 24 June 2015

Cadd, Morris, Shorrock, Schneider and Anderson Sing For The Wayside Chapel

by Paul Cashmere

Australian songwriting legend Brian Cadd and music educator Jamie Rigg have written a song for the Wayside Chapel and put an all-star cast together to perform it.

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Lisa Marie Presley

Lisa Marie Presley’s Daughters To Inherit Graceland

by Paul Cashmere

Graceland, the Memphis family home of Elvis Presley and since his death his daughter Lisa Marie Presley, will be passed down to Lisa Marie’s daughters, Riley (33) and twins Harper and Finley (14).

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Daniel Johns FutureNever

ARIA’s Flawed Chart Formula Negatively Impacts Australian Acts On End of Year Chart Yet Again

by Paul Cashmere

ARIA’s current chart formula has continued to disadvantage Australian artists with the end of year Singles and Album charts once again showing poor impact for Australian artist.

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