Zoot’s final performance filmed during the Rick Springfield and Friends Cruise in November, 2011 will be released on CD and DVD.

APRA will hold the 3rd Art Music Awards in Sydney in August.

Yesterday it was announced that Brian Viglione from Dresden Dolls is the new drummer for The Violent Femmes, replacing founding drummer Victor DeLorenzo.

The Meredith Music Festival will feature Chic featuring Nile Rodgers and The Melvins.

Paul McCartney has just added Japanese dates to his "Out There" tour making an Australian tour now very likely.

Unreleased Bob Dylan and George Harrison collaborations will surface on Dylan’s ‘The Bootleg Series Vol. 10’.

Dallas Green will return to Australia in November for a national City and Colour tour.

Busby Marou and Casey Donovan will perform at Australia’s Indigenous festival Boomerang in October.

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has announced the release of his first ever comic book ‘The Sun Is Sick’.

Harry Styles has been writing songs with Snow Patrol. The One Direction hunk is busy on his Take Me Home Tour with bandmates Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne and Niall Horan but has made time for a venture with the UK group.

At 10am on Saturday, 13th July 2013, ACM (The Academy of Contemporary Music) broke the Guinness World Record for the 'Longest Marathon Drumming by a Team', beating the previous record by over four hours.

Ed Sheeran can understand Justin Bieber's "struggle" with a mop bucket.

Stone Temple Pilots will release an EP with their new lead singer Chester Bennington of Linkin Park fame.

Ryan Seacrest announced the lineup for this year's iHeart Music Festival on all Clear Channel radio stations Monday morning with a lineup heavy on big names from all genres and including a special appearance by Queen with Adam Lambert.

Matthew Morrison paid tribute to his Glee co-star Cory Monteith at the weekend.

The Alan Parsons Project were known for their refining of the concept album with their ten albums released between 1976 and 1987. The second of those albums, I Robot, is celebrating its 35th anniversary with a newly expanded 2-CD Legacy Edition.

The acetate for a rare Beatles album that never saw release will be auctioned off on August 9 by Heritage Auctions.

Things are looking better for country singer Randy Travis, but that doesn't mean he has an easy road ahead.

Former Dresden Dolls drummer Brian Viglione is the new drummer for The Violent Femmes replacing Victor DeLorenzo who announced his departure today.

Anthony Callea turned 30 last December and decided to celebrate in song instead of having a big birthday bash.

Sydney’s Monks Of Mellonwah have been in the studio in Los Angeles working with Fleetwood mac, Ozzy Osbourne producer Keith Olsen.

Just two weeks before the release of his biggest ever hit Gotye was in a Melbourne studio working on lead vocals for a track on the forthcoming solo record for Tommy Spender.

Don Walker will release the third album under his own name ‘Hully Gully’ in August.

Engelbert Humperdinck has released his first book ‘From The Heart’.

Justin Timberlake will expand his ‘The 20/20 Experience’ album with a second volume to be called ‘The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2’ in September.

Las Vegas band Imagine Dragons will play headline shows in Australia and New Zealand in October.

Beyonce has added second shows for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Auckland.

The Jimmy Barnes ‘Welcome To The Pleasure House’ tour is shaping up to be a family affair with the addition of his brother Swanee, brother-in-law Diesel and pal Adam Brand onto various stages of the tour.

Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran will reportedly get together when they're 30.

Mott The Hoople are pleased to announce that progressive rock legends Marillion will be the special guests for The O2 London show on their November 2013 UK tour.