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Celebrity thug Chris Brown has been arrested on a charge of ‘suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon’ after police entered his Tarzana mansion outside Los Angeles after a nine-hour stand-off.

Brian Wilson brought his band to the Chevy Court at the New York State Fair on Monday night with his Pet Sounds 50th-anniversary show.

Harry Angus will make The Cat Empire European tour a working family holiday with news that Tinpan Orange-fronted by his wife Emily Lubitz will open for his band on the tour.

PJ Harvey will return to Australia and New Zealand for shows in January.

Kevin Bacon wrote his first song at the age of 11 in the hopes of having Michael Jackson record it.

R&B star and convicted thug Chris Brown has posted a series of bizarre rants on Instagram ahead of a police raid following claims by a woman, Miss California Regional 2016 Baylee Curran, that the singer threatened her with a gun.

A Frank Sinatra concert from Sydney in 1961 will be included in a new Sinatra box set.

Barbra Streisand can’t wait to see what Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga will do with the A Star is Born remake, because she’s convinced the film will be a big hit.

Mel C has officially ruled herself out of the Spice Girls reunion due to take place next year.

Rap mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is celebrating the launch of his new school in his native Harlem, New York.

Mark David Chapman, the man who was convicted of murdering John Lennon in 1980, has been once again denied parole.

Sydney’s Buried In Verona have called it a day. The band will split after one more tour in October.

Wilco has started to drop a few more hints to the sound of the new album ‘Schmilco’ by sharing the song ‘Someone To Lose’.

Out On The Weekend sideshows have been announced for October.

Blue King Brown will headline the second Wildwood Music Festival in Port Macquarie in October.

The Beyonce performance of her ‘Lemonade’ album at the MTV VMAs in New York yesterday has generated over 15 million views on Facebook, more than double the number of people who watched the show on TV.

Legendary comic and actor Gene Wilder has died at the age of 83.

David Crosby’s new album, Lighthouse, is due on October 21 via GroundUP Music/Verve Label Group and, on Friday, he released the second song from the album.

Nine people have been injured after shoppers in Florida mistook the sound of popping balloons at singer/actor Joey Fatone’s new hot dog stand for gunfire.

Melbourne’s live music scene is expanding even further with news of the Riviera Music Club set to open up at the Mentone RSL in Melbourne’s south-east.

Beyonce has picked up the award for Video of the Year at the Video Music Awards (VMAs) handed out in New York this weekend.

Stonefield will head out around Australia for their largest ever headline So Above So Below tour.

AC/DC performed the TNT classic ‘Live Wire’ for the first time since October 1982 in North Carolina over the weekend.

Paul Kelly will headline the first Lighthouse Folk Festival at Norah Head in November.

Kimya Dawson has had to cancel her Australian and New Zealand tour and will also no longer take part in the Bigsound conference as a speaker.

Charlie A’Court’s latest song ‘Refuse To Fear’ is a response to terrorism around the world.

Tame Impala opened up a guest spot to Lady Gaga at their FYF Festival performance in Los Angeles on the weekend.

Sean Combs has escaped charges following an alleged domestic dispute with his girlfriend Cassie Ventura.

US singer Frank Ocean sees his second solo album, and first new material in four years, entitled “Blonde” (sometimes spelt ‘Blond’ too) debut at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week.

Holding for a third week atop the ARIA Singles Chart are The Chainsmokers with Halsey and their collaboration “Closer”, which also jumped from 6 to 1 in the US this past week too.