Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters and friends have a new project they call The Birds of Satan.

Big Scary have been named victorious for the 9th Australian Music Prize for their ‘Not Art’ album.

With Pharrell Williams in the country this week for the Future Music Festival, plus his appearance at The Oscars over the weekend, and not mention his new album GIRL being released at the start of the week, it looks likely that he will holding for a ninth week at No.1 in Australia with his song “Happy”.

Tim Rogers and Shane O’Mara will team up across March and April for the Rogers Sings Rogerstein tour.

Lizotte’s, one of Australia most loved and most frequented music establishments, is up for sale.

Frente will reform to mark the 21st anniversary of their first album ‘Marvin The Album’.

Liam Gallagher has called for a boycott of the upcoming Oasis ‘Definitely Maybe’ reissue, urging fans not to buy the special edition remastered album.

Tame Impala have announced further UK shows this summer, following on from recent news of their T In The Park, Benicassim and Latitude sets and London Arctic Monkeys support slots.

The Rolling Stones threw a curve-ball to fans in Tokyo on Tuesday night playing the Goats Head Soap classic ‘Silver Train’ live for the first time in 40 years.

Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, have set April 17 as the date for the 25th Rainforest Fund Benefit Concert.

Michael Pilmer, the webmaster for the official Devo website, ClubDevo.com, has started a campaign on gofundme.com to help the family of the late Bob Casale financially.

When Carlos Santana announced the upcoming release of Corazon, an album with numerous Latin stars guesting on vocals, it was assumed that his project reuniting the original Santana band had somehow fallen through the cracks.

Brisbane, home of Australia’s biggest music conference BigSound, will host the APRA Awards in June.

The little move that could about the the background singers that sometimes do, 20 Feet From Stardom, took home the Academy Award last night for best documentary, but it was Darlene Love who brought the house down.

Deep Purple's iconic 1973 live album 'Live In Japan' has been given a complete make-over.

‘Let It Go’, from the movie Frozen, has won Best Original Song at the Academy Awards.

30 Seconds To Mars singer Jared Leto has won an Academy Award for his role as transsexual Rayon in ‘Dallas Buyers Club’.

Boy George will be in Australia this weekend to headline Big Gay Day in Brisbane.

Coldplay have revealed they will release a new album to be titled ‘Ghost Stories’ in May.

Beck has managed to score his career best on the U.K. Albums chart with a number 4 debut of Morning Phase.

Eric Clapton just may be serious about the whole retirement thing.

Abba will mark their 40th anniversary with the release of a 3CD Abba Gold and B-Sides set.

Justin Timberlake will return to Australia for his first tour in six years.

Blur's Damon Albarn has his first solo record coming and he spoke to the BBC about it.

Spotify rolls out the red carpet this Oscars' weekend to reveal the most popular movie tracks from past 12 months.

Outside Donald Fagan and Walter Becker, Steely Dan has been a bit of a revolving door of members. One of those players was David Palmer, who is suing the group for back royalties.

Rick Springfield is going to have a very busy 2014. Along with the release of his first novel, Magnificent Vibration, in May, he is also out on his Stripped Down solo tour which is expected to go through the end of the year.

Depeche Mode hailing from Basildon, a few km from my own birthplace, have always had a special place in my heart, but seemingly thousands of Italians too because they have such a massive following here.

Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale have welcomed their third son.

Fatboy Slim is known the world over for his unique brand of 'Party Acid House', something he advocates through the medium of DJing and of course the music he makes.