Meat Loaf is returning to action less than 12 months after hanging up his bat.

Calvin Harris can easily buy himself a few turntables and a microphone this year.

Robbie Williams and Lady Gaga vinyl releases lead a very quiet week of new music releases.

Simone Bosé, the newly appointed President of Universal Music Spain, has died from complications from pneumonia at the age of 51.

Mat.McHugh, the former lead singer and guitarist for The Beautiful Girls, will kick off a solo national tour in Sydney this week.

Black Sorrows bass player Joe Creighton will bring a taste of New Orleans to Australian stages when he launches JC & The Po Boys later this month in Melbourne.

Daniel Johns of Silverchair will make his long overdue return to music with rapper 360.

The Cult have been announced for UK music festival Alt-Fest later this year.

Beck has recorded a John Lennon cover for a compilation album of artists singing their favourite songs.

Abba gave England a Swedish flavoured soundtrack on New Year’s Eve.

Robin Thicke featuring TI and Pharrell had the biggest selling single of 2013 in the UK with ‘Blurred Lines’.

One Direction 'Midnight Memories' was the biggest selling album of 2013 in the UK. 'Midnight Memories' sold 685,000 copies for One Direction.

Fleetwood Mac have played their first show since bass player John McVie announced he had been diagnosed with cancer.

NASA has issued a statement following the decision by Beyonce to use audio from the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in the video for her song ‘XO’.

Katherine Jenkins will now wear the letter OBE after her name after receiving the honour from Queen Elizabeth II in the New Year’s Honours list.

Actresses Penelope Keith and Angela Lansbury will now be known as Dame Penelope Keith and Dame Angela Lansbury. The two veteran actors were given the title by Queen Elizabeth II in her New Year’s Honours list.

The British DJ and broadcaster, Pete Tong, has been awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for services to Broadcasting and Music in the New Year's Honours List 2014.

Marilyn Manson has a new job for 2014. He says he is now an actor.

R.I.P., in 2013 more than 150 musicians, songwriters, producers, actors and writers passed into Rock and Roll Heaven including the writer of the song, Alan O'Day.

Reg Mombassa of Dog Trumpet and formerly of Mental As Anything is today working with the title Creative Ambassador for tonight’s New Year’s Eve fireworks in Sydney.

NYE Festival due for Sydney’s New Year’s Eve celebration has been cancelled with just 24 hours notice for punters.

Benjamin Curtis, the guitarist for Dallas band School of Seven Bells, has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 35.

Beyonce is under fire for using audio from the 1986 space shuttle disaster in one of her music videos.

Goo Goo Dolls have first drummer Mike Malinin after 19 years service with the band.

AC/DC performed their first ever shows in Sydney exactly 40 years ago today with a set of mainly Stones, Beatles, Chuck Berry and Little Richard covers.

Christmas week has proven to be the best week for album sales in Australia for 2013.

Ninet Tayeb, one of the incredible voices to watch in 2014, performed with Australian supergroup The Dead Daisies at their one-off show in Israel on December 21.

Australia’s Hiatus Kaiyote have been named as one of the 10 best concerts of 2013 for a show in New York’s Central Park in August.

Matchbox Twenty’s Paul Doucette has signalled another break for the band with news he is planning on making a solo record in the New Year.

Bruce Springsteen’s entire 2014 release ‘High Hopes’, not due until mid January, made a brief appearance on Amazon this week and is now being shared on download sites.