Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister is not having a good year. He recently had an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator installed in his chest to give his heart a mini shock when it detects a irregular heartbeat.

Paul McCartney's guitarist, Brian Ray, releases a new single with his side project, The Bayonets next Thursday (4th July).

Arctic Monkeys have christened their 5th album ‘AM’.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Jimmy Cliff will be on the road this September with his Many Rivers Crossed Tour.

Singer Lulu will play her first headline show in London in almost ten years on October 4 when she appears at Under the Bridge.

The 2013 Helpmann Award nominees have been announced With Bruce Springsteen, Barry Gibb, Tedeschi Trucks Band and Coldplay receiving nominations for Best International Contemporary Concert.

Willie Nelson has announced the line-up for Farm Aid 2013 with Jackson Johnson and Pegi Young & The Survivors joining the founders including Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young with Dave Matthews.

Rapper Drake received his Grammy Award for Best Rap Album for ‘Take Care’ in the mail this week and to celebrate drank out of it.

Dave Lombardo, the recently departed drummer for Slayer, will appear on the upcoming album for Sepultura.

Singer songwriter Scott Darlow has recorded a cover of Goanna’s ‘Solid Rock’ as a duet with Goanna’s Shane Howard.

Blues and R&B great Bobby "Blue" Bland has died at the age of 83.

Kanye West has been branded 'ignorant' for including lyrics about Parkinson's disease on his new album.

A discrepancy in the ARIA Chart sales figures over the weekend has incorrectly placed Troy Cassar-Daley and Adam Harvey’s ‘The Great Country Songbook’ at number one.

Professor Green builds on a career which has spawned two Top 3 albums and eight consecutive Top 40 singles ' including the massive hits, 'Read All About It' (#1), 'I Need You Tonight' (#3) and 'Just Be Good To Green' (#5) with the release of the brand new single 'Are You Getting Enough?' on July 22nd through Virgin EMI Records.

Rod Stewart's children are his "fountain of youth".

Jake Bugg returns with new single Broken, the latest track to be lifted off his platinum-selling debut long player 'Jake Bugg'.

The Zombies opened their U.S. tour on Saturday at the Central Park SummerStage with an abbreviated set but played their full show the next night at the Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center in Rockville, MD.

The Living End and John Butler Trio will perform at the Queenscliff Music Festival outside Melbourne in November.

It has now been two years since Glen Campbell first revealed to the world that he was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. Since that time, he has released a new album (Ghost on the Canvas) and gone on a final tour with yet another album coming soon, but the disease is starting to take its toll.

It has been eight years since Earth Wind and Fire released their last studio album, Illumination.

Former AC/DC player joined Tex Perkins’ Beast of Bourbon to belt out the old AC/DC song ‘Ride On’ at the Reclink Community Cup in Melbourne on Sunday.

The Cult will return to Australia in September and October to perform their 1987 classic ‘Electric’.

Troy Cassar-Daley and Adam Harvey outsold Kanye West this week on the ARIA chart with a collection of country covers.

The big winner of The Voice was without a doubt Robin Thicke. Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ outsold Voice victor Harrison Craig’s ‘Unconditional’ by almost 4 to 1 in the past week but also sold more than the Ricky Martin and Delta Goodrem sales added together.

Nordoff Robbins has announced three more award winners for this year's O2 Silver Clef Awards.

Morrissey 25: Live at Hollywood High, the concert film that chronicles the singers March 2, 2013 show at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, will get a theater date across the U.S. before coming to DVD.

Red Hot Chili Peppers' front man Anthony Kiedis got into a brawl with security protecting the Rolling Stones.

Roger LaVern, the keyboard player for the Tornadoes of Telstar fame, died on Saturday, June 15 (some reports are saying Monday, June 17) from cancer. He was 74.

Aaron Neville joined The Rolling Stones for their second last American 50 and Counting show in Philadelphia on Friday night.

It was either going to be Kanye West or Empire of the Sun to take out the No.1 spot in Australia this week, but they land at No.2 and No.3 respectively, as local country artists Troy Cassar-Daley and Adam Harvey have teamed up and their collection “The Great Country Songbook” takes the new No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums chart this week.