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The songwriting team of Elton John and Bernie Taupin are to be awarded the Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Never before have so many major music names been in Australia at one time. Without question, Australia is the music centre of the universe right now and that is with thanks to three people … Peter Noble, Michael Chugg and Rob Potts.

Renowned session musician, guitarist Hugh McCracken has lost his battle with Leukemia.

Seeing Paul Simon, one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th Century, performing other people’s songs shows the reverence he must have for those artists.

Paul Simon is back in Australia for his headlining appearance at Bluesfest this weekend and kicked off his Australian tour in Perth on the weekend.

Legendary music producer Phil Ramone has been hospitalized in New York City after suffering an aortic aneurysm.

Pollstar, America’s prestigious music industry trade publication, has named Bluesfest as one of the best International Music Festivals of 2012.

Paul Simon will perform Bluesfest sideshows around Australia with Rufus Wainwright in March.

Carole King will be the 2013 recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

Jason Mraz will head back to Australia for Bluesfest in 2013 but Madness have pulled out.

The Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has sent a tweet to Gotye for his Grammy nomination this week.

Bluesfest director Peter Noble has outdone himself for 2013 with the announcement that Counting Crows and The Lumineers will be playing at Bluesfest 2013 and it doesn’t stop there.

Paul Simon and Rufus Wainwright are the two latest acts added to Bluesfest 2013 giving the Byron Bay music festival easily the greatest line-up ever seen on one festival in Australia.

Pulling together one man’s remarkable career in music, THE SINGER is a 34-song collection of songs hand-picked by the artist himself.

Thomas Dolby has decided to call it quits from his position of music director of TED (Technology, Entertainement and Design).

For the last quarter century, Paul Simon has been quietly watching over a charity he founded with Dr. Irwin Redlener with the Children’s Health Fund.

The nominees were announced on Thursday for the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards with a number of programs involving veteran musical artists in the mix.

Cold Chisel played their first shows in the Northern Hemisphere in over 30 years last week.

Master dobro guitarist Jerry Douglas prepares an album featuring Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Dr John, Mumford & Sons, Alison Krauss and more.

Bieber leads a weird mix of artists with new albums: Metric, Maximo Park, Muscles, Motion City Soundtrack and more.

Other than live shows, it has been 27 years since Simon & Garfunkel recorded in a studio and it doesn’t look like that long drought will end anytime soon (if ever).