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Crowded House perform at Red Hot Summer 2025 Legends On The Lawn in Cairns.

Check Out Pre-Crowded House When They Were The Mullanes

by Paul Cashmere

For a brief time before Crowded House became Crowded House they were known as The Mullanes.

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Lucinda Williams at Bluesfest Melbourne photo by Mary Boukouvalas

Lucinda Williams Replaces Jason Isbell For Paul Kelly Tour

by Noise11.com

Bad news for Jason Isbell fans. Jason is off the Paul Kelly Australian and New Zealand tour in August and September. The good news is Lucinda Williams has replaced him.

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Tommy Emmanuel, the 2025 Noise11 interview

Tommy Emmanuel and George Benson Are Making An Album Together

by Paul Cashmere

Grammy Award winning Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel and Grammy Award winning American guitarist George Benson are making an album together.

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Bryan Adams Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Bryan Adams Reveals What Happened In The Summer of 69 Happened in 1970

by Music-News.com

Bryan Adams has opened up about why lockdown was a ‘lifesaver’ for him and his family, as well as the experience of getting half his songs rejected for the musical Pretty Woman – in a new podcast from the charity where he’s an ambassador, Help Musicians, released today.

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MONSTR MTV Unplugged

Aussie Supergroup MONSTR Forms for The Best of MTV Unplugged

by Paul Cashmere

MONSTR is a new Australian supergroup featuring members of The Screaming Jets, The Superjesus, Drgan and Taxiride coming together to recreate The Best of MTV Unplugged.

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Chaka Khan supplied photo by Nick Nelson

Chaka Khan To Release Album Recorded With Prince

by Paul Cashmere

In 1984 Chaka Khan had a hit with the Prince song ‘I Feel For You’. What you might not know is that in 1998 Chaka Khan recorded a complete album with Prince but it was never released … until now.

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Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega Channels Bob Dylan ‘I Want You’ for ‘Chambermaid’

by Paul Cashmere

The new Suzanne Vega song ‘Chambermaid’ is based on Bob Dylan’s ‘I Want You’.

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Christopher Cross at SXSW 2012

Christopher Cross Was Once Asked To Play On A Steely Dan Album But Didn’t

by Paul Cashmere

Christopher Cross almost got to play on Steely Dan’s ‘Gaucho’ album but didn’t.

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Rubby Perez Facebook profile pic

Over 60 Killed At Rubby Perez Concert

by Music-News.com

At least 60 people have died and more than 150 taken to hospital after a roof collapsed at a Dominican Republic club.

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Bruce Springsteen Tracks II

Bruce Springsteen Shares ‘Rain On the River’ Lyric Video

by Paul Cashmere

Bruce Springsteen has shared a lyric video for ‘Rain On The River’, a track from the upcoming box set of unreleased Springsteen album ‘Tracks II’.

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Kirk Hammett of Metallica by Ros O'Gorman

Metallica Hook Up With Red Cross To Promote Blood Drives

by Music-News.com

Metallica has linked up with the American Red Cross to promote blood drives on their upcoming tour.

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Madonna performs at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday 12 March 2016. This is the first show of the Australian leg of her world wide Rebel Heart Tour.

Madonna and Elton John “Bury The Hatchet”

by Paul Cashmere

Madonna and Elton John have ended their long and bitter feud. Madonna initiated the peace talks when she confronted Elton at Saturday Night Live on the weekend.

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Dave Allen from Gang of Four tribute on Facebook

Dave Allen of Gang Of Four and Shriekback Dies At Age 69

by Paul Cashmere

Dave Allen, the founding member and bass player for Gang of Four and Shriekback, has died at age 69. Allen had been suffering from early-onset dementia.

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Cyndi Lauper Farewell tour Australia 2025

Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Tour Is The End Of The Era #REVIEW

by Paul Cashmere

I still remember the CBS guy delivering Cyndi Lauper’s debut album ‘She’s So Unusual’ to EON-FM, the radio station I was working at in 1983. ‘She’s So Unusual’ was released on 14 October 1983, the same day as Lionel Richie’s ‘Can’t Slow Down’ and The Jam’s greatest hits album ‘Snap!’. It came out in the same week as Culture Club’s ‘Color By Numbers’. Those were the days when something important was happening every week with new music.

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Pat Benatar, music news, noise11.com

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo To Receive Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award

by Paul Cashmere

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo will receive the Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award for 2025.

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Limahl Facebook profile pic

Limahl Covers America ‘A Horse With No Name’

by Paul Cashmere

80s pop star and former Kajagoogoo singer Limahl has returned with his first new music in years, a cover of the America classic ‘A Horse With No Name’.

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REO Speedwagon, Noise11, Photo

Kevin Cronin Is Mighty Pissed REO Speedwagon Are Doing A Show Without Him

by Paul Cashmere

REO Speedwagon have announced a one-off show in June without singer and founding member Kevin Cronin and Cronin is mighty pissed about it.

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Dee Snider of Twisted Sister

Twisted Sister Sell Their Copyrights

by Paul Cashmere

Twisted Sister are the latest artists to cash out to a corporation.

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5678s by Mary Boukouvalas

The 5.6.7.8’s, Guitar Wolf and Gnome, 25th March, The Tote #REVIEW

by Anna-Maria Megalogenis

The Tote is one of the last standing bastions of seminal music venues replete with the distinctive stench of decades of musos and punters’ blood, sweat and tears seeped into the carpet and walls.

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George Clinton, Parliament: Photo Ros O'Gorman

George Clinton Is Bringing Parliament-Funkadelic Back To Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Funk legend George Clinton is bring Parliament-Funkadelic back to Australia in September 2025 with dates in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Gold Coast.

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Paul Hester from the Peter Green archives

Paul Hester Mini-Doco ‘Hessie’ Goes Live To Mark 20th Anniversary of Paul’s Passing

by Paul Cashmere

26 March 2025 marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Crowded House/Split Enz drummer Paul Hester.

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Frank Ferrer 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.

Guns N’ Roses New Drummer Is Isaac Carpenter of AWOLNATION

by Paul Cashmere

Guns N’ Roses have announced the new drummer for the band is Isaac Carpenter of AWOLNATION.

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UK Subs

UK Subs Denied Entry Into the USA

by Paul Cashmere

UK punk band UK Subs have been denied entry into the United States.

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Andy Peebles picture from his Facebook page

UK Radio Legend Andy Peebles Dies Aged 76

by Paul Cashmere

Former BBC Radio One DJ Andy Peebles has died at the age of 76.

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Hoodoo Gurus photo by Ros O'Gorman

Hoodoo Gurus To Headline Party At The Point

by Noise11.com

Hoodoo Gurus will headline Party At The Point, an event to mark the 10th anniversary of Sandstone Point Hotel as an entertainment venue.

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Christopher Cross at SXSW 2012

How a 30 Rock Christopher Cross Joke Turned Into A Song

by Paul Cashmere

Christopher Cross has been name-checked in The Simpson, Family Guy and Seinfeld but his favourite is when Tina Fey once made a Christopher Cross reference and Christopher turned it into a song and became the topic of a future show story.

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Janet Jackson: Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Janet Jackson Pulls Out Of Music Festival “For Personal Reasons”

by Music-News.com

Janet Jackson has shared her regret over being forced to pull out of a festival appearance this summer.

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U2 photo supplied Universal Music

U2 To Receive Ivors Award

by Paul Cashmere

The Ivors Academy has today announced U2 as the latest songwriters to become Academy Fellows, the highest honour the organisation bestows. With this, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. become the first-ever Irish songwriters that the Academy has inducted into Fellowship during its 81-year history.

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Robert Smith of The Cure to Curate Teenage Cancer Trust Concerts

by Music-News.com

Robert Smith has landed the role as curator of the 2026 Teenage Cancer Trust concerts.

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Frank Ferrer 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.

Frank Ferrer Quits Guns N Roses After 19 Years

by Music-News.com

Guns N’ Roses drummer Frank Ferrer has left the band after nearly 20 years.

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