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David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash have announced they have joined Neil Young in removing their music from Spotify.

Joe Camilleri, Ross Wilson and Russell Morris are just some of the artists set to perform at Bluesfest’s Bob Dylan Party.

The Living End reported for duty at One Electric Day in Werribee on Sunday afternoon.

The Smile, the side-project for Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood performed a Joe Jackson classic at their shows in London this week.

The family of Glenn Wheatley, his wife Gaynor, son Tim and daughters Kara and Samantha, have released a statement following the sudden death of Glenn from complications from Covid.

Aerosmith have axed their European 2022 tour due to the “uncertainty” of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ali Campbell of UB40’s upcoming UK tour will go ahead in memory of his late bandmate, Astro.

Glenn Wheatley, the former bass player for the Masters Apprentices and who went on to direct the careers of Little River Band and John Farnham and run a media empire, has died at the age of 74.

The Jimmy Barnes Band switched guitarists last weekend for the Red Hot Summer (Bendigo) and One Electric Day (Werribee) events. Danny Spencer was tagged as a “close content” and had to isolate for the weekend. Lucky for Jimmy, his brother-in-law Diesel was just a phone call away.

Paul McCartney chokes up listening to the song he penned about his and John Lennon’s “disputes about The Beatles break up”.

Alice Cooper is working on two new “pure rock and roll” albums.

Melbourne’s Checkerboard Lounge Band, featuring guitarist Shannon Bourne, have a new song and video recorded and filmed at the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis Tennessee.

A rarely heard performance by Tim Finn & The Escapade Band will be released this week as part of the Australian Road Crew Association’s Desk Tape Series.

Lady Gaga is heading back to Las Vegas to resume her Jazz & Piano residency.

Shawn Mendes has postponed the UK and European leg of his ‘Wonder’ world tour by more than a year.

Midnight Oil’s Resist tour will feature some of Australia’s finest. Goanna will join the Oils at Mt Duneed, Hoodoo Gurus at Rutherglen, Busby Marou are lined up for Orange and Amyl & The Sniffers will open for the Oils in Melbourne.

Emmy Award winning actor Howard Hesseman, best known as his role as rock jock Dr Johnny Fever in the hit sitcom WKRP In Cincinnati, has died at the age of 81.

Spotify’s showdown with Neil Young cost the streaming company $4 billion off its market value.

With the passing last Friday of the artist Meat Loaf, his debut album “Bat Out of Hell” leaps from the lower depths of chart-hell (#336) to retake the No.1 spot in Australia after 43 1/2 years.

Nine-time Grammy Award winner, music legend Joni Mitchell has joined Neil Young in a major fuck you to Spotify.

Respected Australian music industry identity Stephen White, who for the past 45 years has been a driving force of the Australian music industry, is fed up with the Federal Government’s disdain for the music industry and has spelt out his case in a magnificently worded letter to the Prime Minister and Federal Members.

Blues legends Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder have teamed back up together to perform the songs of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.

The new Aaron Schembri song ‘The Setting Sun’ is a song he co-wrote with Melbourne singer songwriter Paul Norton.

Melbourne’s Truck, the with Andy McLean of Horsehead on vocals and Dave Leslie of Baby Animals on guitar, have premiered their new song for ‘Lucky’, and it has Australian anthem potential.

Crowded House have a new video for the ‘Dreamers Are Waiting’ track ‘Sweet Tooth’.

Joe Camilleri has released the very personal ‘Saint Georges Road’, the title track from The Black Sorrows’ latest album, as the fourth single from the album.