Mötley Crüe will be all over soon … after one farewell tour.

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Ken Stringfellow and a list album from Sarah Blasko are just some of the new music releases this week.

BRIT Awards 2014 nominees have been announced and Bastille and Disclosure will face off at this year's awards.

India.Arie and Joss Stone will perform Australian dates together for Bluesfest sideshow dates.

Don Walker will perform two shows in New Zealand in April with The Bads as his band.

Nielsen Entertainment and Billboard have released their annual review of the music business for the period of December 31, 2012 through December 29, 2013.

Stevie Nicks has given the world an update on Fleetwood Mac bandmate John McVie via a new interview with Us Magazine.

ZZ Top have added a number of U.S. and European dates around their previously announced tour of Canada.

Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes have given notice that they will leave the Allman Brothers Band in 2015.

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival people tweeted out the poster for this year's show on Wednesday night, with a real host of great names scheduled to play this year's show.

The Holidays confirm a February 21 release for their second album ‘Real Feel’, announce national tour.

Diana Krall will now play three shows in Melbourne on her upcoming Australian tour.

Avicii has added four Australian DJs to his upcoming Aussie tour. Will Sparks, Joel Fletcher, New World Sound and Throttle have joined the tour.

Post-punk legends Gang Of Four will tour Australia to celebrate the 35th anniversary of their album ‘Entertainment!’

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs will be a keynote speaker at the SXSW Music Conference in Austin in March.

On April 6, 1974 it will be exactly 40 years since Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest and became a part of music history.

Big Day Out playing and set times for the 2014 have been released. Pearl Jam and Arcade Fire fans are in for full sets from each band.

Streaming has taken over from radio listening as the way people casually consume music in the USA. American’s streamed 118.1 billion songs in 2013.

“Vinyl sales are the saving the music business. Hallelujah!” How many times have we heard that in the past year?

Justin Timberlake ‘The 20/20 Experience’ was the biggest selling album in the USA for 2013.

Beyonce looks set to hold onto top ARIA album spot in Australia while Pharrell looks equally comfortable to maintain the top of the ARIA singles chart, reports Gavin Ryan.

Lou Doillon has had to cancel her So Frenchy So Chic appearances in Australia this weekend but the So Frenchy So Chic festival will go ahead as planned.

Melbourne’s Billboard The Venue has a new name. After being known as Billboard for about 40 years the venue has been renamed 170 Russell (after its address).

Music Victoria and the Victorian Government have been making positive progress to reform regulations and licensing for live music venues in the state of Victoria.

SXSW has now announced over 1200 for the music conference and festival in Austin, Texas in March.

Warner Music will release a 2-disc compilation documenting the music of Greenwich Village in the 60s.

Rock icon Lemmy of rock-band Motörhead gets immortalised as a statue. Well, a 9 inch tall one.

SXSW has confirmed 41 Australian acts has signed to perform at the 2014 music conference and festival in Austin, Texas in March.

Engelbert Humperdinck has recorded a cover of the Shirley Bassey classic ‘Never Never Never’ with Olivia Newton-John for his forthcoming duets album ‘Engelbert Calling’.

The world's most dangerous group N.W.A are to have their story immortalised in new film 'Straight Outta Compton'.