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The Falls Festival line-up for 2016/2017 is one of the best in years with Grouplove, The Avalanches, London Grammar and The Rubens heading an international bill.

Fans of Stoner Rock, rejoice! Cleopatra Records has released a potent, heavy groovin’ box featuring 6-CDs of the stickiest, dankest stoner rock from around the globe.

With the 20th anniversary of the first of Oasis’s era-defining Knebworth gigs, Big Brother Recordings has released My Big Mouth (Live At Knebworth Park).

Applications for the Bank of Melbourne’s music initiative Melbourne Music Bank close this Saturday.

Temple of the Dog have released a rare demo of ‘Black Cat’, a song recorded but not used for the one and only Temple of the Dog album.

Singer Michael Buble will launch his new women’s fragrance with a special online gig.

Stevie Wonder, Caitlyn Jenner and Matt Bomer gathered in support of the Orlando nightclub shooting victims at an emotional fundraiser.

London Grammar will head back to Australia to play the Falls Festival over New Year but they won’t be playing any sideshows.

Sia had to delay the start of her set at Britain’s V Festival on Saturday due to bad weather conditions.

Fletcher from the Bridge School has announced the lineup for Neil Young’s 30th Bridge School Benefit Concert and it rivals most music festivals.

Demi Lovato was left stunned after the cast of her favourite TV series The Walking Dead sent her video messages for her birthday.

Lea Michele’s new album features a “hopeful” song about her late boyfriend Cory Monteith.

Christian metal band Stryper is going to jump back thirty years to play their breakthrough album, To Hell With the Devil, in its entirety during their fall tour.

Bette Midler has apologised after a tweet she posted about Caitlyn Jenner was deemed transphobic.

Kanye West’s fans reportedly caused chaos outside the rapper’s pop-up clothing store in New York.

R&B act TLC will tour Australia and New Zealand in November with special guest Montell Jordan.

Singer-songwriter Judith Owen has released a confronting video for ‘Somebody’s Child’, the title track from her latest album.

The fifth studio album for Gympie metalcore act The Amity Affliction becomes the band’s third consecutive No.1 album, as this week “This Could Be Heartbreak” enters at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart.

The Chainsmokers and Halsey hold for a second week atop the ARIA Singles Chart with their first No.1 in Australia, “Closer”, which is also ▲Platinum in sales too.

Bob Egan, who has been a member of both Wilco and Blue Rodeo, is retiring from music to enter the public sector.

Kanye West would like you to think he is a poet but after today’s effort for Frank Ocean’s mag maybe he is just plain fucking crazy.

Disgraced ex-Backstreet Boys and NSYNC manager Lou Pearlman is dead at age 62.

Barry Gibb will release his first solo album since 1984’s ‘Now Voyager’ ‘In The Now’ in October.

Sparks will release a new album for 2017 and they have also announced that they will spend the year touring the world.

Frank Ocean’s much talked about second album ‘Blonde’ is now available and streaming at Apple Music.

Michael Forsyth, a Scottish plumber who released his own album independently, has watched it climb to no 1 on the UK iTunes chart.

Matt Roberts, lead guitarist for 3 Doors Down, has been found dead from an apparent drug overdose at age 38.

Michael Nesmith is playing with the Monkees again, possibly for the last time.

The Chainsmokers and Halsey ‘Closer’ is the most streamed, the most downloaded and the most Shazam’d song in Australia this week.

The Living End are Australia’s greatest live act from the crop of bands of the late 90s the rejuvenated the Australian live music scene. This week The Living End played the LA’s famed Roxy.