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Skepta has beaten out eleven other nominees, including David Bowie and Radiohead, for the Mercury Prize.

Metallica announced on Thursday afternoon that they were finally done with their new album Hardwired…To Self Destruct. That would be the album that is scheduled for release on November 18.

The 2016 Screen Music Awards will be in Sydney this year and Chris Taylor and Andrew Hansen of The Chaser will host.

Jay-Z has urged America’s top politicians to “rethink” their approach to laws regarding controlled substances after declaring the War on Drugs is an “epic fail”.

Lady Gaga has named her new album Joanne in tribute to her late aunt.

Irish singer-songwriter Foy Vance tells stories behind the song on his new album ‘The Wild Swan’ at Noise11 iHeartRadio this week.

Aerosmith rocker Steven Tyler may be offered a role in a third Guardians of the Galaxy movie by director James Gunn.

Major new titles coming out this week include Usher, Anthony Callea, Heaven Shall Burn, Willie Nelson, Remi, Led Zeppelin, Mac Miller, AlunaGeorge, Meat Loaf, In Flames, The Black Sorrows and the new Bridget Jones’s Baby soundtrack.

Hitmaker Timbaland has departed his role as music supervisor on hip-hop TV drama Empire.

Broadcast Music, Inc, announced today that world-renowned singer-songwriter Sting will be named the BMI Icon at this year’s BMI London Awards in recognition of his award-winning career and influence on popular music for more than four decades.

Mona Foma has dropped a surprise announcement for 2017 with news that Maynard Keenan and Mike Patton will be in Hobart, Tasmania for next year’s event.

If the company Syd Bernstein Presents the Shea Stadium concert at the end of The Beatles Eight Days A Week movie may disappear fast.

Rick Parfitt, the guitarist and vocalist for Status Quo (along with Francis Rossi) for over fifty years, has been ordered to rest for, at a minimum, the rest of the year.

Billy Joel’s record-breaking run of shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden will take just a short time off while the singer undergoes endoscopic sinus surgery.

Snoop Dogg won’t be jumping on any “bandwagon” by turning his life story into movie.

In 1963, Darlene Love released the song Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) as part of the album A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector.

Colleen Hewett will return to a new production of Godspell in Melbourne in October.

The Human League will release a 3 disc anthology of their 40 years of recordings.

540 Victorian artists submitted entries for the Melbourne Music Bank 2016. 12 have been picked as finalists.

Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam has played the first show in his A Cat’s Attic: 50th Anniversary Acoustic Tour at the Sony Centre For the Performing Arts in Toronto.

Tame Impala will perform around Australia for the next Laneway Festival in 2017.

Lady Gaga is reportedly in top secret talks to headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show in February (17).

Last year, Ian Anderson brought his Jethro Tull: The Musical to a number of venues on the east coast of the United States. This October, he brings the presentation to the west.

John Farnham will headline the next series of dates for the Red Hot Summer tour of 2017.

Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong leads an all-star cast in a candid and heart-warming comedy, ORDINARY WORLD released on DVD and Digital Download on 17 October via Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Triple J has confirmed that the Hottest 100 will go ahead on January 26, 2017.

Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen decided to work on an album together after meeting up at a friend’s funeral last year.

Dan Sultan has an album planned for 2017 and has shared a sampler of the first song ‘Magnetic’.

As the November 8 UK opening of Lazarus at London’s King Cross Theatre approaches, the cast and band of the original New York production will release their versions of the David Bowie songs from the show as the Lazarus Cast Album October 21 on ISO / RCA Records.