Three quarters of Talking Heads, a remarkable cast of guest singers and a legal battle with David Byrne produced an album that was meant to become the beginning of something much bigger.

Lamb Of God, Trivium and Bleed From Within turned John Cain Arena into a night of sustained metal intensity, with two co-headliners taking very different approaches to their catalogues.

Lotte Gallagher swaps the scorching guitars of her earlier work for piano, orchestration and the optimism of new love on her latest single, released as she prepares to begin a Victorian headline tour.

Allen's unusual live format gets another twist in Australia and New Zealand, with her cello ensemble returning as the opening act before she performs West End Girl from beginning to end.

Vacations have released their new album Pursuit Of Anything, accompanied by a new video for "Lucky, Forever".

Tash Sultana has added second shows in Auckland, Wellington and Perth as the 2027 tour expands alongside new music from a forthcoming album.

Cryptic billboards in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane are connecting a series of numbers, songs and career milestones to Powderfinger, while a new Instagram account appears to be spelling out the band's history one clue at a time.

Chris Isaak's 1996 album was more than a collection of acoustic covers. For its 30th anniversary, the album stands out as a rare moment when Isaak deliberately stripped back songs from his own catalogue and heard them differently.

Thirty years after Marilyn Manson's breakthrough album turned a volatile recording process into a defining statement of 1990s rock, Antichrist Superstar reaches its anniversary with its legacy now inseparable from serious allegations against Brian Warner.

Wilbur Wilde has announced the death of Richard 'Rockpile' Jones, the founding Ol' 55 guitarist and vocalist whose distinctive falsetto helped make Looking For An Echo one of the enduring Australian rock'n'roll revival recordings of the 1970s.

After declaring his touring career over, Elton John returned to the stage for an intimate London performance followed by two farewell concerts in Mexico City, with the final shows reconnecting him with a country he had been forced to miss during his farewell tour.

Daryl Braithwaite has returned to the studio with Garth Porter for a new Sherbet recording, almost 20 years after the band last recorded new material together.

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined The Strokes on stage for their first New York City headline show since 2023, turning a 40,000-capacity Queens concert into a distinctly New York political and musical homecoming.

Ruby Gill has released "Porchlight", the final preview of her third album *fishing is not about fishing*, a love song about learning to recognise a real relationship rather than seeing the ghosts of past ones.

Florida metalcore band Wage War have released "God Complex", the latest track from their forthcoming album Landfall, following a busy 2026 that has already taken the band through Australia.