My Morning Jacket performed The Beatles’ ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’ and The Rolling Stones ‘Happy’ at their Scranton, PA show on July 1.

Coldplay flipped things around in Zurich this week when tennis chap Roger Federer joined the band for ‘Don’t Panic’ and Chris Martin covered Elton John’s ‘Your Song.

5 July 1993 saw the release of the first Björk solo album ‘Debut’.

Died Pretty have had to cancel their upcoming Australian tour as two of their members, Ron S. Peno and Chris Welsh undergo cancer treatment.

When you have been around for 50 something years, an artist like Russell Morris will have career highs and lows. In Melbourne last night, Russell’s performance with the Southern Cross Symphony was a career highest of highs.

Blur have cancelled their headline slot at Festival Beauregard after drummer Dave Rowntree suffered an injury.

Neil Young has played the third show on his west coast Coastal Tour. Show three featured ‘Vampire Blues’ from 1974’s ‘On The Beach’ and ‘Rocking In The Free World’ from 1989’s ‘Freedom'.

The Yazoo (Yaz in the USA) album ‘You and Me Both’ is 40 years old today. ‘You and Me Both’ was released on 4 July, 1983.

Academy Award winning actor Alan Arkin once had a hit song.

Peter Gabriel has premiered another song from the upcoming ‘i/o’ album, again on the full moon.

WTFing Fuck was The Weeknd (aka Abel Tesfaye) thinking when he made that piece of shit ‘The Idol’.

The Brian Jones Massacre have announced Australian dates for 2023. It is the first Australian tour for The Brian Jonestown Massacre since 2018.

Ed Sheeran surprised young musicians in Boston by stopping by during their recital over the weekend.

Boy George has been joining Rod Stewart at his UK shows to perform Rod’s classic ‘The Killing of Georgie’.

Nick Cave and Debbie Harry have collaborated for a cover of The Gun Club’s Jeffrey Lee Pierce’s ‘On The Other Side’.

Melbourne’s Ne Obliviscaris will be back on tour in Australia in September for their first hometown shows since 2019.

Action Skulls, the supergroup featuring Bill Mumy (Will Robinson from Lost In Space), Vicki Peterson, guitarist for The Bangles and John Cowsill, singer and drummer for The Cowsills, have a new song ‘Find The Girl’.

A beach, a full moon and a Steve Miller Band concert with Joe Satriani is how thousands spent the Saturday of the July 4th long weekend, on Long Island, this past weekend. Noise11’s COO Nick Kontonicolas was there too as a guest of Joseph Wooten, the Steve Miller Band's longtime keyboard player and band member.

Scotland’s Teenage Fanclub will be back in Australia and New Zealand for their first dates since 2019.

Paul McCartney says John Lennon was so short-sighted that he once thought a Nativity scene on a neighbours veranda was a couple of people playing cards in the middle of the night.

Neil Young has performed a treasure trove of rarities at the first show of his first concert tour since 2019 and played many songs never performed live before.

The tenth and final album from local MC and rapper Kerser called "A Gift & a Kers" becomes his first #1 Album locally.

‘Billion Dollar Babies’ by Alice Cooper, ‘Paranoid’ by Black Sabbath, ‘Nightmares… and Other Tales from the Vinyl Jungle’ by The J. Geils Band, and ‘Red Octopus’ by Jefferson Starship are being reissued in Quadrophonic sound on Bluray.

Rapper Travis Scott has been cleared of all charges related to the 2021 Astroworld concert tragedy that took the lives of 10 people and injured countless others.

Blur have released a second preview of their next album ‘The Ballad of Darren’, due 21 July 2023.

Neil Young will release his long lost ‘Chrome Dreams’ album in August and has shared an early edition of ‘Sedan Delivery’, which would later make its way onto the 1979 ‘Rust Never Sleeps’ album.

Palace of the King have come armed with a wall of guitars for their new song ‘Children of the Evolution’.

The Smashing Pumpkins have released a video for ‘Spellbinding’ from their new triple album ATUM.

‘Wet Dream’, the first solo album from Pink Floyd co-founder and keyboard player Richard Wright, has been remixed by Steven Wilson and will be reissued in September.

Post Malone is heading back to Australia for a second time in 2023. Post Malone opened for Red Hot Chili Peppers in February.