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Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins, Photo Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo

Smashing Pumpkins Announce First Tour Since 2000

by Paul Cashmere

Smashing Pumpkins have taken the reigns and will hit the road this summer with their first shows since 2000.

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Jimmy Page Confirms A New Live Led Zeppelin Album Is Coming

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Jimmy Page has said to get ready for live music from Led Zeppelin.

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Rita Coolidge

Rita Coolidge To Release New Album After SXSW

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Rita Coolidge will release her new album, Safe in the Arms of Time, on May 4 via Blue Elan Records.

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Barry White, Noise11, Photo

The Complete 20th Century Singles By Barry White To Be Released

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

From his hitmaking ’70s heyday until his untimely passing in 2003, Barry White set an unmatched standard for sexy, seductive, soulful R&B.

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The Who, Roger Daltry and Pete Townshend . Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Classic The Who Concert Could Become A Live Album

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

It appears that there is a new archive live album from The Who coming on April 20.

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Peking Duk

BMG To Take Peking Duk Global

by Paul Cashmere

Canberra’s Peking Duk are going global via BMG.

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Courtney Barnett performs in the ABC Melbourne Studio Foyer celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Archie Roach album Charcoal Road. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Courtney Barnett Teases Her Next Album

by Paul Cashmere

Courtney Barnett has given fans an insight into her next album by dropping the video teaser “Tell Me How You Really Feel” on them.

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Bruce Milne photo by Ros O'Gorman

Bruce Milne Is Rolling Out His Magical Mystery Tour For Melbourne Again

by Paul Cashmere

Bruce Milne’s ‘Melbourne Music Bus Tour’ is kicking off again this month.

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Metallica, Photo Ros O'Gorman

James Hetfield Is About To Become An Actor

by Music-News.com

Metallica star James Hetfield has joined the cast of Zac Efron’s new Ted Bundy thriller Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile.

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Mott The Hoople To Reunite For English Festival

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Mott the Hoople will reunite for the Ramblin’ Man Fair in Kent, England.

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Gene Simmons, Kiss. photo by Tim Cashmere

Gene Simmons To Write Book On The ’27 Club’

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Gene Simmons is putting pen to paper (or fingertops to keyboard) to write a new book with his theories on “The 27 Club”, all of the rockers who have died at the age of 27.

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Steve Miller Band perform at the Deni Blues and Roots Festival. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Steve Miller and Peter Frampton Team For US Tour

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Classic rockers the Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton must have had a lot of fun together last summer because they are on the road again in 2018 with another co-headlining trek.

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Chicago VI Decades Live

Chicago To Release 5CD of Historic Live Tracks

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Chicago has always been known as a great live band but their live catalog is woefully small for a group that has been around for almost fifty years.

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Toto, Noise11, Photo

Toto Opens 40th Anniversary World Tour

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Toto are celebrating forty years together with their 40 Trips Around the Sun Tour in support of their new best-of set of the same name that was released last Friday.

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Daryle Singletary

R.I.P. Daryle Singletary 1971-2018

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

The country music community was shocked on Monday (February 12) with the news that Daryle Singletary had died at the age of 46.

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Bill Murray Jan Vogler New Worlds

Bill Murray Is Touring Australia And It Will be Weird

by Paul Cashmere

Bill Murray (yes that Bill Murray) will tour Australia and New Zealand in November in a show he likes to call ‘Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends New World’.

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CEO Claire Spencer and Molly Meldrum with the Gospo Choir at the Launch of the Australian Music Vault. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Australian Music Vault To Present Talks In Australian Music

by Noise11.com

The Australian Music Vault will run a series of talks about Australian Music as part of the Australian Music Vault Learning Program.

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Roger Waters talking at an event for Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) at the Atheneum Theatre Melbourne on Friday 9 February 2018. Photo Ros O'Gorman

Roger Waters Again Under Fire For Anti-Semitism By People Who Do Not Listen

by Paul Cashmere

Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters is once again accused of being an ‘anti-semite’ by people who did not listen.

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Robert Plant, Australian Tour 2013, Noise11, Ros O'Gorman, Photo

Bluesfest Reveals Supports For National Tours

by Noise11.com

With Bluesfest season about to hit, supports for the national Bluesfest tours have been revealed.

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Vic Damone

R.I.P. Vic Damone 1928-2018

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

One of the very best of the crooners to come in the wake of the Sinatra craze, Vic Damone, has died after suffering respiratory failure on Sunday (February 11) in Miami Beach at the age of 89.

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Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins, Photo Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo

Smashing Pumpkins Says D’arcy Doesn’t Want To Rejoin The Band

by Paul Cashmere

Smashing Pumpkins recent reunion without original bass player D’arcy Wretzky earned the scorn of D’arcy is a recent post by her but the band says she was invited to join and failed to take them up on the offer.

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Mary J Blige plays Hamer Hall on Wednesday 12 April 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Mary J Blige To Star In New Netflix Show Written By My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Mary J. Blige is currently nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Mudbound along with a second nomination for Best Song.

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Cher, Image, Rod Laver, Ros O'Gorman, Photo

Panic Room Alarm Triggered At Cher Estate

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Police officials swarmed Cher’s home in Malibu, California on Sunday afternoon (11Feb18) after someone accidentally triggered the star’s panic alarm.

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The O'Jays

The O’Jays To Retire In Two Years

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

The O’Jays appeared on CBS Sunday Morning earlier today (February 11) and stated that they would be touring for two more years before calling it quits. More recent member Eric Nolan Grant added that, if Eddie Levert and Walter Williams left, that would be it for the group.

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Spice Girls images photo noise11.com

Now Victoria Beckham Says There Won’t Be A Spice Girls Reunion

by Music-News.com

Victoria Beckham has categorically denied the Spice Girls will be going on a reunion tour.

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Judas Priest

Glenn Tipton of Judas Priest Diagnosed With Parkinsons

by Paul Cashmere

Judas Priest have issued a statement after their lead guitarist Glenn Tipton was diagnosed with Parkinson Disease.

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Colin Hay performs at the Recital Centre in Melbourne on 11 February 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Colin Hay Shares A Few Stories With His Old Friends REVIEW Melbourne 11 Feb 18

by Paul Cashmere

There was something special about seeing Colin Hay perform a full show with his international band. He was extremely relaxed. Maybe that’s because it was his last show on the tour, maybe the home-town gig is always the best one, maybe he was in good company with wife in the band. The amazing Cecilia Noēl

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Roger Waters played Rod Laver Arena Melbourne on Saturday 10 February 2018. Roger Waters is performing his Us and Them Australian tour. Photo Ros O'Gorman

Roger Waters Tears Down The Wall(nut) #REVIEW Melbourne 10 Feb 2018

by Paul Cashmere

When Roger Waters last toured Australia in 2012 he tore down the wall. For the ‘Us + Them’ tour he is tearing down The Wall(nut), US president Donald Trump.

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Roger Waters talking at an event for Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) at the Atheneum Theatre Melbourne on Friday 9 February 2018. Photo Ros O'Gorman

Roger Waters Slams Elton John, Aerosmith, Steve Van Zandt, Thom Yorke and Nick Cave In Talk For APAN

by Paul Cashmere

Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters gave his time for the Australia Palestine Advocate Network in Melbourne on Friday and while explaining the issues between Palestine and Israel also took aim at a number of his fellow artists Elton John, Thom Yorke, Steven Tyler, Steve Van Zandt and Nick Cave.

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The Greatest Showman

Australia Charts: The Greatest Showman Is No 1 for Sixth Week

by Gavin Ryan

It’s a sixth week at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart for “The Greatest Showman” soundtrack, last week scoring Gold, and now this week its newly ▲Platinum in sales.

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