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Herb Alpert has had one of the most successful careers of the last fifty years between his own hit recordings and his record label, A&M Records.

Canadian blues guitarist Charlie A’Court will start his Australian tour with a couple of shows at the Gympie Muster this weekend followed by a series of East Coast shows over the next two weeks.

Dynamic Hepnotics have reformed for Pure Gold Live and ahead of that the back-catalogue will be released in September.

Skyhooks fans are in for a bit of a reunion for Skyhooks drummer Freddie Strauks joins Skyhooks guitarist Bob ‘Bongo’ Starkie for the Million Dollar Riff show at the Satellite Lounge in Melbourne this Saturday night.

Fans of Prince will be able to wander around his Paisley Park compound this autumn, when the late music icon’s home is opened to the public.

Empire of the Sun has released ‘Two Vines’ the title track of their upcoming third album.

The Pixies will return to Australia for their first dates since 2010 in March 2017.

Richie Sambora and Oriathi have thrown together a quick Australian tour for September under the banner RSO and the setlist is impressive.

Katy Perry’s new album will feature a song about her sex life.

U.S. President Barack Obama cornered Chance the Rapper for a career chat during a recent White House event.

Lady Gaga has vowed to donate money to help recovery efforts in her family’s native Italy after an earthquake shook the country early on Wednesday.

Alice Cooper is putting his hand up for the US Election and one of his policies is to have Brian Johnson reinstated into AC/DC.

Britney Spears’ life has inspired a new TV movie.

Dolly Parton’s second movie for NBC, Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love, is set to premiere on November 30. The film will, once again, star Alyvia Alyn Lind as a young Parton and Jennifer Nettles and Ricky Schroeder as her parents.

Burt Bacharach, 88, has been forced to cancel at least two live appearances due to a broken arm.

Cher fears for the safety of the gay community if Republican candidate Donald Trump wins the upcoming presidential race.

Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet has a Christmas album on the way.

Spice Girls star Emma Bunton is keen for someone to take on Victoria Beckham’s role as Posh Spice for the band’s 2017 reunion.

Usher only agreed to portray Sugar Ray Leonard in new boxing biopic Hands of Stone after obtaining the sports legend’s personal approval.

Empire Of The Sun have completed their third album Two Vines and it will feature some impressive names.

Chris Bailey will form a special edition line-up of his historic band The Saints for three very tiny Melbourne pub shows in October.

Hunters & Collectors will perform at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide in 2017.

Van Morrison has made a music video for his new song ‘Too Late’.

Red Hot Summer returns for 2017 with Icehouse leading the all-Aussie line-up and a crack cast of James Reyne, Daryl Braithwaite, Shannon Noll, Models & Pseudo Echo.

Bluesfest 2017 is off to its strongest start in years with what is their strongest first announcement in years.

Aretha Franklin has pulled out of performing at Tony Bennett’s upcoming birthday concert to get some rest.

After years of plugging, gigging, slogging and epitomising Malcolm Gladwell’s ’10,000 hours’ outliers’ hypothesis’ the ‘break’ happens.

Britney Spears is giving back to her native Louisiana by raffling off the costume she plans on wearing to this weekend’s MTV Video Music Awards.

A representative for Justin Bieber has denied reports suggesting he mimed during his headlining performance at Britain’s V Festival on Saturday.

Mariah Carey’s representative is laughing off reports suggesting the diva once threw fiance James Packer’s computer out of a window when a Beyonce song appeared on a playlist.