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Kylie Minogue will be honored at the 2025 APRA Music Awards with the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music.

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

Melbourne International Jazz Festival has announced three performers for 2025. Gregory Porter, Hiromi with PUBLIQuartet and Lettuce are a preview of what is to come.

The 2025 APRA Music Awards nominees list has been finalised with Kevin Parker, King Stingray, Missy Higgins, Tones And I, and Troye Sivan in for some major awards.

Kenny Chesney, the late June Carter Cash and more will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Stevie Nicks will be Inducted into the Pollstar Hall of Fame at the 36th annual Pollstar Awards in April.

The shortlist for the upcoming Association of Artist Managers (AAM) Awards has been revealed.

With the conclusion of the SXSW Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas for 2025, the Grulke Prize winners have been announced.

Shannon Busch (aka WILSN) has taken out first prize in the Vanda and Young Global Songwriting Competition.

Folk legend Joan Baez has sent a heartfelt thanks to Renée Fleming after she stepped down in her role as Artistic Advisor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after a convicted felon and rapist self-appointed himself as chairperson.

One classic rock Australian album turning 20 this year is the debut album for Wolfmother ‘Wolfmother’. The album was a major international success reaching no 3 in Australia, no 22 in the USA and 25 in the UK. Despite its international success Andrew Stockdale says he currently has no plans to mark the occasion of the 20th.

14 acts have made the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominations for 2025 with one band nominee member, Liam Gallagher of Oasis, immediately posting “Fuck the Rock n Roll hall of fame its full of BUMBACLARTS”.

The site for the once magnificent Falls Festival in Lorne is up for sale for $2.5 million.

The Grammy Awards for 2025 are now complete. Beyoncé won the major award for Album of the Year.

The 2025 Grammy Awards are underway in Los Angeles. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones have so far both won awards.

Three of the four members of Nirvana, Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl and Pat Smear, regrouped for FireAid in Los Angeles on Thursday night (30 January 2025). No Doubt got back together and Joni Mitchell made a rare appearance all to announce Los Angeles is healing.

Australia’s Groovin The Moo will not return in 2025 after also being cancelled in 2024.

Chappell Roan has topped the Triple J Hottest 100 for 2025 with ‘Good Luck Babe’. Australia’s Royal Otis is at number two with a cover of ‘Murder on the Dance Floor.

Charli XCX has secured the highest number of nominations for the 2025 BRIT Awards.

George Clinton and The Doobie Brothers are to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The full list of Australian sideshows for Knotfest is here.

The 61 songwriter and composer finalists for the 2025 APRA Professional Development Awards (PDA) have been revealed and are now one step closer to receiving one of 13 awards when they’re announced in Sydney on Thursday 13 February.

Keith Urban will be inducted into the Roll of Renown at the 2025 Tamworth Golden Guitar Awards.

Australia’s Hello Sunshine Festival, featuring Stone Temple Pilots, Smash Mouth, Wolfmother and Kasey Chambers, has been axed.

Irving and Shelli Azoff’s FireAid benefit concert for the victims of the LA fires is expanding. Olivia Rodrigo, Stevie Wonder and No Doubt have now been added to the event as well as Peso Pluma.

Irving and Shelli Azoff’s FireAid benefit, for the victims of the California fires, will take place on January 30 in Los Angeles with the biggest names on the planet performance on the day across two venues.

The 9th Annual Metal Hall of fame will go ahead on 22 January in California by the event will now be a fundraiser to raises funds for those affected by the LA wildfires.

The ARIA end of year chart has been revealed and it is another embarrassment for Australian artists. Not one Australian song released in 2024 made the Top 100. Just three Australian artists made the ARIA Top 100 albums for 2024. They were Cold Chisel, The Kid Laroi and INXS.

The 2025 Grammy Awards will go ahead in Los Angeles as planned.

Longtime 2 Double J music director (and later Triple J) and the man credited with creating the original character of then Sydney radio station Arnold Frolows has died at age 74.