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Daryl Braithwaite is the latest performer to test positive to Covid-19.

The Bonnaroo 2022 line-up has been announced with a list of acts set to party like its 2019.

The Weeknd has teased that ‘Dawn FM’ is part of a trilogy. The Weeknd appeared to reveal that a third album is to follow 2020’s ‘After Hours’ and its follow-up, which was released to acclaim last week.

The Rolling Stones are being immortalised in stamp form. Royal Mail has announced a set of 12 stamps in tribute to the iconic rock ‘n’ roll band to mark their 60th anniversary.

Burke Shelley, the lead singer for UK rock band Budgie, has died at the age of 71.

The Uncaged Festival will now take place across March and April with new additions You Am I, Tex Perkins, The Hard Ons and Shihad.

The Unify Forever music event has been moved to March 2022.

Shania Twain has congratulated Taylor Swift on beating her Billboard Country Albums chart record.

Sinéad O’Connor has confirmed the death of her 17-year-old son, Shane O’Connor.

The Pussycat Dolls have claimed they only found out about their tour cancellation via Nicole Scherzinger’s Instagram post.

Dwayne Hickman, the star of the 60s sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, has died from complications to Parkinson’s disease in Los Angeles at the age of 87.

Marilyn Bergman has died at age 93. Bergman, with her songwriter partner husband Alan, collected three Academy Award, three Emmy Awards and a Grammy Song of the Year in their decades of success.

TV star and comedian Bob Saget has died at the age of 65. Saget was on tour in the USA. He had just started the tour in Florida. He was found dead in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Orlando, Florida.

KISS have released another official bootleg. ‘Live In Virginia Beach’ was recorded at Virginia Beach Amphitheatre on 25 July 2004.

Sammy Hagar is now the Ambassador for Tourism for Los Cabos in Mexico.

Judas Priest have no plans to stop making albums. Frontman Rob Halford has insisted recording new music and performing it live is what “sustains” the heavy metal band.

On what would have been his 75th birthday, Madame Tussauds London has today released never-before-seen images from David Bowie’s 1983 sitting with their artists as the London landmark announces a new upcoming figure of the late, great, icon of sound and vision. This will be the second David Bowie figure to feature at the famous Baker Street attraction.

Avril Lavigne’s new album will feature “the most” collaborations she’s ever had.

Louis Tomlinson is busy rehearsing for his 2022 tour. Tomlinson was previously forced to postpone a number of dates on his debut solo tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Calvin Simon, one of the co-founders of funk band Parliament-Funkadelic, has died at age 79.

Michael Lang, the man who was behind Woodstock, has died at age 77. The cause of death is announced as Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Tony Visconti recalled an untold story about making the album ‘Low’ – particularly the track Weeping Wall – with David Bowie on Mary Anne Hobbs’ ‘Bowie at 75’ special show, on BBC Radio 6 Music this morning.

Adele’s fourth album “30” remains the No.1 Album in Australia for the first week of sales in 2022.

Two previously unreleased cuts of David Bowie’s ‘Shadow Man’ have been released.

Olly Alexander had to drop out of The Graham Norton Show this week after testing positive for Covid-19.

The current Covid upsurge in Melbourne has forced the closure of the Brunswick Ballroom until 21 January.

Peter Jackson’s The Beatles’ Get Back will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray 28 February and it is going to disappoint.

Tamworth’s Country Music Festival and Golden Guitar Awards have been postponed following new Covid guidelines handed down from the New South Wales Government.