Dave Faulkner of the Hoodoo Gurus let the ‘Dig It Up’ cat out of the bag earlier this week. Now it’s official. The Hoodoo Gurus will perform their ‘Mars Needs Guitars’ album on this tour.

Kenny Loggins will showcase his new band Blue Sky Riders at SXSW in March.

Stan Ridgway is offering four free songs via the Metropolis Touring website.

After two years of touring with the Police and a year of playing with an orchestra, Sting took his music back to the basics in October 2011 with a five-piece band on the Back to Bass Tour.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band will play a third and final show in Sydney on March 22.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will showcase their new album ‘Push The Sky Away’ at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas.

Soul legend Bettye LaVette says she is “so disappointed” that Beyonce mimed the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ at President Obama’s inauguration.

The forthcoming Australian tour for From The Jam has been cancelled following the sudden departure of Mark Brzezicki from the band.

Blues legend Charlie Musselwhite will join Ben Harper at Bluesfest in Byron Bay at Easter.

Wilko Johnson, founding member of Dr Feelgood and later guitarist with Ian Dury & The Blockheads, has added an extra date to his farewell tour.

‘At Last – The Etta James Story’ will play for Sydney as well as Melbourne for one week starting the end of April.

American folk/blues singer Chris Smither has more than a guitar to his name. He is also featured in a series of spy novels.

The Rainbow Serpent Festival in western Victoria this long weekend will go ahead as planned and will have one new performer to be announced Tuesday.

The Killers are paying tribute to Melbourne’s own Crowded House with a cover of ‘Don’t Dream Its Over’ on their current Australian Big Day Out tour.

The Dave Grohl documentary Sound City will have a one-night only screening across Australia on January 31.

The Hoodoo Gurus are heading to Tasmania today to play for the Mona Bushfire Appeal and then another Dig It Up tour will get underway.

Bloc Party will play their own shows in addition to the Future Music Festival shows in March.

The Rainbow Serpent Festival is expected to go ahead this weekend if a positive resolution with Pyrenees Shire in western Victoria is achieved today.

Red Hot Chili Peppers played their second Australian show on the Big Day Out tour last night (January 20, 2013).

The next rock and roll 50th anniversary coming up will be The Hollies. Founding member Bobby Elliott tells Noise11 that he counts the 50th from the first date The Hollies stepped foot in Abbey Road Studios.

Reggae great Jimmy Cliff sees himself as an actor more so than the Jamaican singing star he became.

A reunion for The Jam is still not a possibility because of drummer Rick Buckler. Founding members Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton are great mates these days but Rick is now the one missing in action.

The Angels, Brewster Gleeson Brewster Bailey Norton, have already locked away dates for the first half of 2013.

Blues legend Taj Mahal can lay credit to putting Ben Harper on the road to success.

10,000 Maniacs have been forced to cancel their US tour because guitarist Jeff Erickson is in need of urgent back surgery.

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

Red Hot Chili Peppers mixed it up a little but basically played the same show as New Zealand for their first Australian show at the Big Day Out in Sydney this evening (January 18, 2013).

Sunday February 17 will mark the 40th anniversary of The Rolling Stones concert in Melbourne, Australia at the Kooyong Tennis Centre.

Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello will fill in for E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt on the upcoming Bruce Springsteen Australian tour.

Sweden’s Avicii will headline the EDM stage for the Future Music Festival in Australia.