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Major new titles coming out this week include: Drapht, Dolly Parton, John Williamson, David Brent, Crystal Castles, Frenzal Rhomb, Blood Orange, Sam Coomes and Roy & HG.

Adele has cancelled her show in Phoenix Arizona tonight because she really isn’t well and she’s put a video on Twitter to prove it.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds new album ‘Skelton Key’ will be released in September.

Canadian jazz band BADBADNOTGOOD will perform around Australia in December.

Dungen from Sweden will play shows in Sydney and Melbourne in December.

Japandroids will return to Australia in December with shows announced for Sydney and Melbourne.

Sheila E will perform her own shows in Sydney and Melbourne in December.

Legendary singer songwriter Rodriguez has been announced as one of the acts for Berry’s Fairgrounds Festival in December.

James Wooley, who played keyboards with Nine Inch Nails during the first half of the 90’s, died last weekend at the age of 50. No cause of death has been released.

Things have come full circle for Paul McCartney as far as record companies are concerned.

Singer Seal plans to release the most raw music of his career now that he’s an unsigned artist again.

Skrillex and Wiwek have collaborated on the short film ‘Still In The Cage’.

Billy Corgan has given a frank video statement about the future of Smashing Pumpkins and the possibility of the original band reuniting.

Big Star’s 1978 third and final album ‘Third’ is about to receive a massive 69 track make-over.

The 2016 ARIA Awards will be held on 23 November 2016 singling the start of the Christmas marketing season for the major labels.

It’s been quite a couple of years for former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd.

Guns N’ Roses will tour Australia in February playing outdoor stadiums around the country.

Madonna is critical of celebrities who focus on fame rather than “doing the work” to be a revolutionary artist.

R&B singer Usher had to bust a move like his life depended on it while ‘battle-dancing’ with President Barack Obama.

Tony Orlando & Dawn, with singers Joyce Vincent and Thelma Hopkins, performed together last Wednesday and Thursday night at The Sands Bethlehem Event Center in Pennsylvania.

Billboards advertising Mariah Carey’s Las Vegas residency have reportedly been banned from two California airports for being too provocative.

The APRA Art Music awards were handed out in Melbourne tonight (16 Aug 17). It was the night contemporary classical, jazz, chamber and the experimental music world are acknowledged for this excellence.

Eric Clapton’s 2017 concert in San Diego with J.J. Cale is about to be released as a live album.

The Goo Goo Dolls will continue to promote their latest album, Boxes, this fall with an additional twenty five dates around the U.S.

Disney will make a Mary Poppins sequel 54 years after the classic original.

Ringo Starr is the first Beatle to become a great grandfather.

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the first of Oasis’s era-defining Knebworth gigs, Big Brother Recordings has released ‘My Big Mouth (Live At Knebworth Park)’.

British band Madness have announced details of their new album, Can’t Touch Us Now, out October 28.

The Go-Go’s are in the midst of their “Going Going Gone, The Final Tour” playing last Thursday night at the Fillmore in Philadelphia.

John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) was performing with his band Public Image Ltd. (PiL) in Santiago, Chile on Sunday night when a concert goer hit him in the head with a thrown glass bottle.