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Veteran Australian musician Russell Morris has clocked up another achievement for 2014. He has made the Rage Top 50 Videos of 2014.

Jack Bruce, bass player and lead singer of Cream, has lost his battle with liver cancer at the age of 71.

Hamish Anderson is the Melbourne blues guitarist even B.B. King is taking notice of.

Blues legend B.B. King has cancelled his next eight shows after falling on stage in Chicago on Friday night.

Earlier this year, Paul McCartney filmed the video for the track Early Days from his album New.

Stevie Ray Vaughan’s complete output while recording for Epic Records is being compiled in one box set.

ZZ Top have cancelled their current US after yesterday announcing it had been suspended.

Gary Clark Jr’s second album will be a live album.

Mia Dyson will take her Idyllwild album on the road starting October 1.

ZZ Top have been forced to postpone their upcoming US tour because bass player Dusty Hill has had to have surgery.

Russell Morris ventured into Tasmania for the production of the official video for ‘Van Diemen’s Land’.

Dan Sultan and Husky are two of the latest additions to the Queenscliff Music Festival.

Blues-rock guitarist Johnny Winter has died while touring in Switzerland at the age of 70.

Johnny Winter, the legendary blues guitarist, singer and producer, has died at the age of 70.

Blues singer Chick Willis, also known as the Stoop Down Man, died on Saturday evening from cancer at the age of 79.

The line-up for the 24th Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival has been revealed with Russell Morris and Jazz Bell Award winner Mick Nock on a list of artists from Australia, USA, The Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Austria.

Lanie Lane has announced a series of dates to play new music from her upcoming second album.

SXSW, the world’s biggest music conference held annually in Austin, Texas, is open for 2014 registrations.

Artists wishing to attend the SXSW Music Conference and Festival in 2014 may now apply.

Blues and R&B great Bobby “Blue” Bland has died at the age of 83.

Australian jazz and blues singer Wendy Saddington has passed away.

Stephen Stills’ latest musical project is The Rides, a new supergroup with Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Barry Goldberg.

Russell Morris has been awarded his first Gold Record in decades thanks to his album ‘Sharkmouth’.

B.J. Thomas had his highest charting album in thirty years recently with The Living Room Sessions, a superb reimagining of many of his best known songs, sung in duets with a number of diverse artists.

Curtis Salgado was one of the big winner at Saturday night’s Blues Music Awards, taking home the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award, Soul Blues Album for Soul Shot and Souls Blue Album.

Hugh Laurie feels like an untrained “Saudi Arabian playboy” driving a Ferrari when he performs his music.

ZZ Top is the latest artist to get the box set treatment featuring their entire catalog from their time with Warner Brothers.

Russell Morris ‘Sharkmouth’ will return to no. 6 on the ARIA Chart on Sunday making it four weeks in a row the album was spent in the Australian Top 10.

Richie Havens, one of the veterans of Woodstock, has passed away at the age of 72.

Five giants of guitar, Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, Leslie West (Mountain) and Kim Simmonds (Savoy Brown) will be touring together this summer in the Rock’n’Blues Fest.