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Radiohead are returning to North America for another short tour to promote their 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool and the 2017 expanded reissue of OK Computer.

Todd Rundgren has reformed Utopia for two-month tour from April to June.

Melbourne’s theatre crown jewel The Production Company has revealed the three shows for the 2018 season.

Just days after Machine Head cancelled dates in the USA the metal band has announced an Australian tour.

Amy Shark from the Gold Coast and Perth’s Troye Sivan both have songs placed in the new movie’ Love, Simon’.

Fergie was slammed on Twitter for her sultry, jazzy take on The Star-Spangled Banner as she performed the National Anthem at the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday (February 18).

Hillary Clinton will appear in a series of speaking engagements in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland in May.

Billy Joel just keeps the tour buses rolling.

Blues singer Little Sammy Davis, whose blues career was interrupted for two decades only to come back and become a close musical associate of Levon Helm, died on Friday (February 16) at a nursing home in Middletown, NY at the age of 89.

Harry Connick, Jr.’s talk show, Harry, will come to an end after two seasons.

LaToya Jackson has been given a little more closure surrounding the death of her brother Michael after calling on the talents of a top TV psychic.

The National Guitar Museum has announced that Bonnie Raitt, one of the most accomplished guitarists of the past 50 years, will receive its annual Lifetime Achievement Award. Raitt is only the eighth recipient of the award.

Sydney’s DMA’s have dropped the new video for ‘In The Air’ ahead of the release of their second album ‘For Now’ in April.

The City of Brisbane has recognised the achievements of punk pioneer Ed Kuepper by naming a park after him.

Muse were guests on Matt Wilkinson’s Beats 1 show where they discuss global politics, their Beatles tribute band, doing a film score, their favourite director, living in LA, wanting to live in Tokyo and more.

Machine Head are down two shows after lead singer Robb Flynn came down with a “severe throat infection”.

The City of Frankston will be switched to party mode this weekend when Thundamentals headline The Pier Street Party.

Kylie Minogue suffered a nervous breakdown after she split from ex-fiance Joshua Sasse.

Melbourne’s Cut Copy are a recent addition to the SXSW line-up in Texas in March.

Tim Henwood is reforming power-pop band The Androids for a couple of shows (and I literally mean a couple).

A year ago we had four soundtracks within the Top 10, and this week there are three with ‘The Greatest Showman’ set for Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron and Zendaya holding for a seventh straight week at the summit of the ARIA Albums Chart, plus its sixth week in England and second in N.Z.

ARIA’s No.1 single for a third week is the Drake track “God’s Plan”, holding at the top again in New Zealand, England, Ireland, America and Canada.

Marilyn Manson had a major meltdown at a show on Thursday (February 15) show at the Paramount Theatre in Huntington, NY.

It amazingly took over a year for Neil Young to finally come out and say why his Pono player failed in the marketplace.

Spiderbait’s Kram says its an honour to have his band’s artifacts placed in the Australian Music Vault in Melbourne.

Last week, Ozzy Osbourne announced the first dates for his final tour.

Major new titles coming this week from: new music releases from Kyle Bielfield, Senses Fail, Aaron Carter, Laurie Anderson, Temperance Movement, Towkio and Brandi Carlile.