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Pretenders ADOTG at Rochford Winery on Saturday 18 November 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Chrissie Hynde Pisses All Over The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

by Paul Cashmere

Chrissie Hynde has rejected her 2005 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction for The Pretenders.

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Russell Morris at The Espy St Kilda 24 April 2019 photo by Noise11

10 Classic Australian Acts Set To Play Sunset Sounds In Torquay At Easter

by Paul Cashmere

Torquay will host the all-day 10 classic artist strong Sunset Sounds line-up over Easter.

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Rick Allen of Def Leppard

Rick Allen of Def Leppard Assaulted Outside Florida Hotel

by Music-News.com

Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen was attacked by a teenager outside a hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida earlier this week.<

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The Cure vocalist and guitarist Robert Smith performs at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on 12 August 2007.

Robert Smith Has Win Over Ticketmaster

by Music-News.com

Robert Smith has scored a victory in his battle against Ticketmaster by securing partial refunds for those attending The Cure’s upcoming tour.

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Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

Talking Heads Iconic Concert Movie ‘Stop Making Sense’ To Be Reissued For 40th Anniversary

by Paul Cashmere

The Jonathan Demme directed Talking Heading concert movie ‘Stop Making Sense’ has been restored in 4K and will get a theatre run before being reissued to make its 40th anniversary.

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Daniel O'Donnell

Ireland’s Daniel O’Donnell Signs With Robert Rigby’s Ambition Entertainment

by Announcement

Ireland’s national treasure and one of Ireland’s biggest selling music artists, Daniel O’Donnell has signed a new deal for the Australian and New Zealand markets with Brisbane based music label Ambition Entertainment.

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The Cure frontman Robert Smith performs at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Thursday 28 July 2016.

The Cure’s Robert Smith Lashes Out At Ticketmaster

by Music-News.com

The Cure’s Robert Smith has called out Ticketmaster bosses over a “fee debacle”.

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Avenged Sevenfold

Avenged Sevenfold Release First New Music In Seven Years

by Paul Cashmere

Avenged Sevenfold have released their first new song in seven years, ‘Nobody’, and announced their new album ‘Life Is But a Dream…’

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James Hetfield of Metallica photo by Ros O'Gorman

Metallica Buy Into Vinyl Plant

by Music-News.com

Metallica have purchased a majority stake in a vinyl pressing plant.

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Brian May of Queen performs at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Brian May Receives Knighthood From King Charles

by Music-News.com

Brian May was knighted by King Charles III at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.

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Stevie Nicks ADOTG at Rochford Winery on Saturday 18 November 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Stevie Nicks Pays Tribute To Christine McVie At LA Show

by Paul Cashmere

Stevie Nicks has performed an emotional tribute to her Fleetwood Mac partner Christine McVie, performing her classic ‘Landslide’ for Christine at her Los Angeles show with Billy Joel.

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Guns N Roses perform at the MCG in Melbourne on Tuesday 14 February 2017. Guns N Roses are touring Australia on their Not In This Lifetime tour. Photo Ros O'Gorman

Slash Starts A Horror Movie Company

by Music-News.com

Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash has launched his own horror production company.

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Bruce Springsteen and Max Weinberg at AAMI Park on Thursday 2 February 2017. Photo Ros O'Gorman

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Cancel Shows Due To Illness

by Music-News.com

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have called off three shows due to illness.

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Rod Stewart - Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Rod Stewart and Cyndi Lauper Open Australian Tour In Perth

by Paul Cashmere

Rod Stewart’s long overdue Australian tour has final started. The tour originally planned for 2020 and the postponed and then postponed again due to Covid, has finally opened with the first show in Perth.

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Janet Jackson: Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Janet Jackson To Document Together Again Tour

by Music-News.com

Janet Jackson is to chronicle her Together Again tour for a new documentary.

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Glen Matlock Isn’t Up For A Sex Pistols Hologram Show

by Music-News.com

Glen Matlock admits the chances of the Sex Pistols creating a show with late band member Sid Vicious as a hologram are slim.

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ARCA’S 1982 Midnight Oil Live Tape Getting CD Release And Orders Are Now Open

by Noise11.com

The Australian Road Crew Association (ARCA)’s desk tape release of Midnight Oil LIVE At The Old Lion Adelaide 1982 is getting a CD release in early May.

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Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction. Photo by Ros O'Gorman.

Jane’s Addiction Debut New Song ‘True Love’ Live

by Paul Cashmere

Jane’s Addiction slipped a new song into the setlist on Bakersfield, California this week so Australia can except some new music on the upcoming tour.

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Tears For Fears The Hurting

Tears For Fears To Release 40th Anniversary Edition of ‘The Hurting’

by Paul Cashmere

Tears For Fears ‘The Hurting’ turns this week. The debut album for Tears For Fears was released 7 March 1983. A 40th anniversary edition is on the way.

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Simply Red perform at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda Melbourne on Tuesday 16 February 2016.

Simply Red Cover Paul McCartney and Premiere New Song ‘Better With You’

by Paul Cashmere

Simply Red have covered the Paul McCartney classic ‘My Love’ for the new album ‘Time’.

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Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel Premieres ‘Playing For Time’

by Paul Cashmere

Peter Gabriel has shared another song from the upcoming ‘i/o’ album, with another Full Moon premiere ‘Playing For Time’.

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Morrissey, Festival Hall, Melbourne, Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo

Morrissey To Start Live Dates This Week

by Music-News.com

British singer-songwriter Morrissey has today announced a series of major headline summer shows at London’s Crystal Palace Park on Sunday 9th July and Leeds Millennium Square on Wednesday 12th July. The announcement precedes a highly anticipated upcoming European tour including a sold-out show at London’s Eventim Apollo this month.

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Alice Cooper at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 20 October 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Nita Strauss Rejoins Alice Cooper Band

by Music-News.com

Alice Cooper’s long-serving guitarist Nita Strauss has re-joined his touring band. Nita was part of the group – which also includes Ryan Roxie, Tommy Henricksen, Chuck Garric, and Glen Sobel – from 2014 until 2022, but took time out to be part of pop star Demi Lovato’s touring line-up.

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Lionel Richie Rod Laver Arena on Sunday 8 April 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Lionel Richie To Tour With Earth, Wind & Fire

by Music-News.com

Lionel Richie is finally going on tour with Earth, Wind & Fire.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd debut album

Gary Rossington, The Last Original Member of Lynyrd Skynryd, Dead at 76

by Paul Cashmere

Gary Rossington, the last remaining original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died at age 76.

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Richard Marx in Melbourne 4 March 2023 photo by Bron Robinson

Richard Marx Gives A Lounge Room Performance for 3000 In Melbourne #REVIEW

by Paul Cashmere

Before I start, please refer back to my Richard Marx review of 2016. It is no accident Richard Marx performs great concerts. The structure of his songs is faultless. He writes his songs, he sings the songs, he produces the songs, he performs the songs. You cannot get more real than Richard Marx. There are no smoke and mirrors. Richard is driving this Marx bus.

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Cate Blanchett Stars In The New Sparks Video

by Paul Cashmere

Australia’s Cate Blanchett is the star of the new Sparks video ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte’. Cate performs a wild dance while Russell Mael sings behind her and his brother and Sparks’ co-founder Ron Mael sits behind with a latte, gets up to clean wipe his table, sits down again and then stands up.

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A Day In The Gardens in the Botanical Gardens Melbourne on Friday 10 March 2017. Ross Wilson, Daryl Braithwaite and John Farnham each performed a set for the first A Day In The Gardens held over the March 2017 Moomba long weekend in Melbourne.

Harry Styles Performs Rickie Lee Jones ‘The Horses’ With Daryl Braithwaite In Sydney

by Paul Cashmere

Harry Styles has been popping out the Rickie Lee Jones song ‘The Horses’ on his Australian tour as an Aussie anthem because it was such a big hit for Australia’s Daryl Braithwaite. At the Sydney show, Daryl joined Harry on stage.

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Steve Mackay tribute from Pulp Facebook page

Steve Mackay of Pulp Dies At Age 56

by Paul Cashmere

Steve Mackay, the bass player for UK band Pulp, has died at age 56.

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Roger Waters, The Wall - photo by Ros O'Gorman

Frankfurt, Germany Cancels Roger Waters Over Anti-Israel Behaviour

by Paul Cashmere

Roger Waters’ May 28 concert in Frankfurt, Germany has been cancelled with The City of Frankfurt citing Waters’ ongoing “anti-Israel behaviour” calling him “one of the most widely spread anti-Semites in the world”.

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