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51 tracks of Australian punk spanning 40 years has been compiled for ‘Stranded: The Chronicles of Australian Punk’.

The Recording Academy has announced 26 new recordings which are to be added to the Grammy Hall of Fame.

As part of their Greatest of All Time issue, Billboard has named the 200 “Greatest” Albums of All Time.

Tony Hadley, legendary solo singer and Spandau Ballet front man who’s currently in the I’m A Celebrity Jungle has announced a series of live dates with an orchestra for October 2016 including a date at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

Adele has shot down tabloid rumours suggesting she recently rejected an offer to collaborate with Beyoncé Knowles, insisting she would “never disrespect” the superstar.

Tom Petty has been given his own Sirius/XM Radio show.

Tommy Lee thinks it’s the right time for Motley Crue to come to an end, as playing country fairs wouldn’t be a “good look” for them.

Straight Outta Compton, the most successful music biopic in history, is about to come to DVD and Blu-Ray in an unrated director’s cut.

Victor Willis, the original lead singer of the Village People as the police officer, has released a very un-Village People new single.

Tim McGraw has the highest charting new album by a veteran artist for the week in the U.S. with Damn Country Music.

Adele is convinced her voice is completely different to when she started her career as her vocals changed after her throat surgery and during her pregnancy.

Monday night on Jimmy Kimmel it was a “reunion” of Jewel and the Gang.

Gwen Stefani wishes her marriage to Gavin Rossdale hadn’t ended in divorce, but accepts it as part of her personal journey.

Singer Kelly Clarkson’s second pregnancy is leaving her so dehydrated she has to have regular IV drips.

Singer songwriter Tim Wheatley is giving fans an impression of Los Angeles from when he first moved there away from his hometown Melbourne.

Redgum, Deborah Conway, Hoodoo Gurus and Hilltop Hoods have been added to the National Film and Sound Archives ‘Sounds of Australia’.

Ben Abraham of Melbourne, The Gooch Palms from Newcastle, Hockey Dad of Wollongong, Nite Fields of Brisbane, Oh Pep! From Melbourne and Sui Zhen from Melbourne will showcase at SXSW 2016.

The legendary Dion DiMucci will be a keynote speaker at SXSW 2016.

The owners of The Bataclan, the Paris music venue were terrorists attacked the audience during the Eagles of Death Metal concert on Friday, have urged people to stay away from the venue for the time being.

Son Little will head out around the USA with Leon Bridges for dates in March 2016.

Chris Paine of Killing Time/Mantissa has died in Melbourne.

One Direction were apparently scared they’d look tame if they appeared on a chat show with Grace Jones.

On Monday, President Barack Obama named seventeen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom including Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Itzhak Pearlman and Stephen Sondheim.

Loretta Lynn is the recipient of the inaugural Women in Music “Legend” award.

Adele premieres a live clip of “When We Were Young,” a new song from her forthcoming album 25.

Mariah Carey is insistent she has yet to move in with her billionaire boyfriend James Packer.

Eagles of Death Metal, the band who was playing at Le Betaclan when the terrorist attack started, have suspended their tour, in effect cancelling all further dates.

Alice Cooper’s 1973 album ‘Muscle of Love’ is about to get an audio upgrade.

Art Vs Science have scheduled an East Coast Australian tour for March 2015.

Duane McDonald’s Sounds By The River, a part of Regional Touring’s upcoming Red Hot Summer roster of music events, has won a South Australian Tourism Award for Best Festivals and Events.