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Alex The Astronaut is Sydney-born, New York-based ‘folktronic’ singer-songwriter Alex Lynn.

On Saturday (December 10), Southby’s held an auction of rock memorabilia from throughout the years, raising $847,318.

Bob Dylan accepted his Nobel Prize in Literature on Saturday by sending his acceptance speech to the Nobel committee.

Eddi Reader will scoot around Australia in March following her appearance at the Port Fairy Folk Festival.

Ed Sheeran reportedly had his face sliced open by Princess Beatrice.

A Rodriguez performance is special. His original songs are thought provoking, his covers are inspiring and his message about the environment and politics is articulate.

Hugh McDonald, a member of Australian band Redgum, has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 62.

Bob Dylan will not travel to Sweden to accept his historic Nobel Prize win.

In September 2016 Leonard Cohen gave his ever last to David Remnick of The New Yorker.

ABC2 will pay tribute to the late Leonard Cohen with ‘Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man’ on Sunday night.

Frank Yamma will perform his final shows for 2016 in Victoria.

Canadian songwriting legend Leonard Cohen has passed away at the age of 82.

The Blue Mountains Music Festival will celebrate its 22nd season in 2017 with an impressive line-up starting with Australia’s Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen and including the return of Folk Uke, the daughters of Willie Nelson and Arlo Guthrie.

Bob Dylan has finally shared a few words about his Nobel Prize and by “a few” I mean literally a few.

Australian singer-songwriter Glenn Cardier has produced an incredibly entertaining video packed with cameos. Cardier plays an Uber driver picking up some very unconventional characters including actors Emma Leonard and Michael Caton, Murray Cook of the Wiggles and rock historian Glenn A. Baker.

James Taylor will return to Australia in 2017 for his first tour since 2010 when he shared the stage with Carole King.

Nobel Prize committee officials remain confident Bob Dylan will attend their annual ceremony to accept his Literature honour, even though he has yet to respond to their invitation.

Bic Runga has covered Neil Young, Roberta Flack, Nick Drake and the Beach Boys on ‘Close Your Eyes’, her first album in five years.

Josh Ritter has resurrected his song ‘The Temptation of Adam’ as the lunacy of Donald Trump continues.

Bob Dylan has performed the second of his Desert Trip concerts at Indio, California and apart from the encore, he stuck to the script.

The big news in Leonard Cohen circles last week, besides the impending release of his new album You Want It Darker, was the fact that he said he was “ready to die”.

Legendary singer Bob Dylan has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature making him the first songwriter to be honoured with the award.

Bob Dylan has performed the first of his Desert Trip concerts at Indio, California.

The complete tracklisting for the 36CD Bob Dylan collection ‘The 1966 Live Recordings’ has been revealed.

Earlier we told you about the Bob Dylan massive 36-disc box set of all of the surviving concerts from 1966.

Bob Dylan fans are about to be placed in the DeLorean and sent back 50 years to 1966 for 36 discs of live music.

Paul Simon is a victim of the American legal system at its dumbest.

The Decemberists have a new song The Wrong Year to preview their 2015 album ‘What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World’.

Yusuf, the former Cat Stevens, appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Friday night to sing a song from his latest album, Tell ‘Em I’m Gone.