Britain’s Will & The People had California their home for a few months in 2015 to work on new music for 2016.

Gurrumul has offered a sample of what to expect on his upcoming Electronica album ‘TRIBE2tribe’ with 'Warrk'.

iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com returns this week with tributes to Stevie Wright and Lemmy, new music from Bowie and an interview with Mak from Brothers 3.

Mavis Staples has recorded Nick Cave's 'Jesus Lay Down Beside Me' for her next album 'Livin' On A High Note'.

On February 26, the Estate of Michael Jackson and Sony Legacy Recordings will release exclusive CD/DVD and CD/Blu Ray editions of Michael Jackson's revolutionary 1979 recording, Off The Wall.

Less than a month after the release of the first two Phil Collins reissues on January 29 comes the second wave of two albums on February 26.

David Bowie 'Blackstar' leads the weeks new music releases.

As we approach the sixtieth anniversary of the release of Elvis Presley's debut album on March 23, 1956, RCA/Legacy has announced a new monster 62-CD box set comprised of the music released by Elvis Presley during his lifetime.

David Bowie has released his 25th studio album ‘Blackstar’ and launched the album with a video for ‘Lazarus’.

James Murphy has confirmed that there will be a new LCD Soundsystem album this year in an open letter to fans where he says “I write songs all the time.”

The new Elvis Costello concert film, Detour Live At Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on February 12 via Eagle Rock.

The new Flume album will be called ‘Skin’ and as a preview Harley Streten (aka Flume) is sharing the new music.

Gurrumul will perform at Australia’s largest free music festival, the St Kilda Festival, in February.

When Songs of Innocence came out in 2014, U2 promised a followup called, appropriately, Songs of Experience but, while we were given all sorts of "soon" indications for the release, it never turned up last year.

Adele ‘25’ is not showing any signs of slowing down as we hit the first week of 2016.

Bon Jovi returned to the studio where they made their first album ‘Runaway’ for their next album ‘This House Is Not For Sale’, due in March.

David Bowie’s 25th studio album ‘Blackstar’ will be the first major release of 2016.

Andrew Stockdale will attempt to resurrect the Wolfmother brand with a new album ‘Victorious’ in February.

Adele and her mega third album “25” stay atop the ARIA Albums Chart for a sixth straight week, also becoming the first No.1 album for 2016.

The first ARIA Chart for 2016 has Justin Bieber holding for a fourth straight week with “Love Yourself”, which matches the four week’s his previous No.1 “What Do You Mean” (TW-9) achieved back in September of 2015.

James Southwell has released ‘Walkin’ Now’, a stunning new blues song 2016, and just check out the band.

‘Red Dirt Red Heart’, the third part of the Russell Morris blues trilogy, has spent seven of the last nine weeks at the top of ARIA Blues and Jazz Chart and ends the year as Australia’s no 1 blues album of 2015.

Radiohead were asked to write and record a theme for the new James Bond movie Spectre but the producer’s of the movie rejected it, instead going with Sam Smith.

Adele remains at the top of the ARIA Albums chart for a fifth straight week with “25”, but the first week without a new certification, although with it being Christmas week, not everything is back on track and I’m sure we will see a new certification in the new year.

Justin Bieber remains at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a third week with “Love Yourself”, but he also moves back up to No.2 with “Sorry” which has already notched up four weeks at that position, after which it spent four more weeks at No.3, and now this week it racks up a fifth week in the second position.

Lauryn Hill has joined Green Day in quietly slipping out a Christmas song.

The Beatles not only moved into the world of streaming as of midnight Christmas Eve, but their albums are now available from all download services.

Happy Holidays from Green Day. The band has released a brand new song for Christmas called 'Xmas Time of the Year'.

There are no major releases until the second week of January 2016 for now, but a few digital compilations and a few tracks for this and next weeks releases.

2015 was by far the year of Adele but it was also a great year for Australian acts Cold Chisel, Parkway Drive, Tame Impala, 5 Seconds of Summer and Hermitude.