Page 918 – Noise11 Music News

Ryan Adams, Maroon 5 (GH), Disclosure, Don Henley, Parkway Drive, Chvrches, Pierce Brothers, Silversun Pickups, Julio Iglesias and Tony Bennett lead the week’s new releases.

Jeff Lynne’s ELO is set to deliver a new album which will be the first new ELO music in 15 years.

The unique music festival So Frenchy So Chic will return to Sydney and Melbourne in 2016.

British band Anathema will be releasing a concert film ‘Anathema – A Sort of Homecoming’ around the same time they will be touring Australia and New Zealand.

Australia is sending American Urban thug Chris Brown a very strong message that he is not welcome to tour the country.

R&B singer Usher reportedly tied the knot in secret with Grace Miguel.

The Libertines’ new single, Heart Of The Matter, comes with a hard hitting and poignant video which portrays the voyeuristic celeb-obsessed, self destructive culture we live in.

Three members of the classic lineup of the Bay City Rollers, Les McKeown, Stuart Wood and Alan Longmuir, have announced that they are reforming the band.

Britain’s Q magazine has unveiled the nominations for the audience voted categories for The Q Awards 2015, in association with Absolute Radio.

Disclosure release their new album Caracal this coming Friday and are now ready to announce their UK tour.

Lily Allen reportedly ‘lunged’ at fellow musician Skepta while they both attended a London Fashion Week party.

Tickets for the 2016 Red Hot Summer tour will be available from 9am Thursday.

Thirsty Merc’s stage manager Shane Cooper has died in a car crash in Streatham in western Victoria while drummer Mick Skelton has been taken to hospital with serious injuries.

The day of the physical consumption of music may be ending sooner than we thought.

Australian broadcaster and journalist Mike Gibson has died at age 75.

Farm Aid celebrated their 30th show on Saturday at FirstMerit Bank Pavilion in Chicago with their original lineup of the four main artists in the organization and a smattering of veteran and new musicians and bands, all for the benefit of the family farmer.

Over the years, Herb Alpert has experimented with a number of different sounds but it is the arrangements he used with the Tijuana Brass that have been the hallmark of his career.

Buffy Sainte-Marie has won Canada’s Polaris Prize for the best album of the year by a Canadian artist, beating out such artists as Drake, the New Pornographers and Caribou.

Fatboy Slim has been announced as the headline act for the brand new Electric Gardens Festival on Australia Day in Sydney.

The new Duran Duran album ‘Paper Gods’ is the highest charting Duran Duran album is ‘Arena’ in 1984.

The Muppets are back on television and Imagine Dragons took advantage of the exposure to appear on Miss Piggy’s talk show.

The ARIA Awards will be back in Sydney for the third year in a row this year.

Chris Cornell has performed a haunting version of Prince’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ for Sirius XM in the USA.

Jackson Browne has just been added to Bluesfest just hours after the festival organisers announced Tom Jones, Noel Gallagher and The Decemberists.

Ben Cauley, a founding member of Stax group The Bar-Keys, has died in Memphis at the age of 67.

David Bowie has recorded a brand new original song, which will feature in the opening credits for the forthcoming European crime thriller, The Last Panthers.

Sir Tom Jones has joined the Bluesfest line-up for 2016 and Noel Gallagher will be there as well.

Actor Benicio del Toro enjoys going to Disneyland with Rod Stewart, much to his friends’ amazement.

Following on from their Little Black Book album for Moda Black, Groove Armada have just announced an original new production, ‘Call Me’.

Jesse Hughes and Joshua Homme, co-founders of American rock band EODM (Eagles Of Death Metal) have shared a new track ‘Silverlake’ from their forthcoming album ‘Zipper Down’.