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Cyndi Lauper Takes Home Broadway Honours

The Outer Critics Circle Awards, one of a number of Broadway and Off-Broadway honours that are announced in May and June every year, have given their Best Musicals awards to Cyndi Lauper's Kinky Boots and David Byrne's Here Lies Love. Lauper's award is for a Broadway musical while Byrne's is for an Off-Broadway show.

May 14, 2013
Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber Robbed In South Africa

Justin Bieber's Johannesburg concert was raided by thieves.

May 14, 2013
Tubular Bells For Two
Tubular Bells For Two Perform In London

Two young Aussies, smashed Edinburgh Festival last Summer with their daring and dynamic live performance of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, which celebrates 40 years since its release this year.

May 14, 2013
Phil Lynott statue
Phil Lynott Statue Damaged By Drunks

The statue of Thin Lizzy's late guitar master Phil Lynott was pushed over and badly damaged.

May 14, 2013
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Grammy Awards 2014 and 2015 Dates Announced

The 56th Annual Grammy Awards will take place in Los Angeles on January 26, 2014. The Grammy Awards have also locked in the 2015 date for February 8, 2015.

May 14, 2013
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Dr Joyce Brothers Dead At Age 85

Dr Joyce Brothers, the first of the television psychologists, has died at the age of 85.

May 14, 2013
Seth MacFarlane Dads, Noise11, photo, Fox
Seth MacFarlane Gets Timeslot For Dads TV Show

Seth MacFarlane will have a new TV show on air next week and it won’t be an animated show. Fox has given MacFarlane’s comedy ‘Dads’ a timeslot.

May 14, 2013
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Australia’s Laneway Festival Announces First US Line-Up

Australia’s Laneway Festival will hold its inaugural US festival in Detroit, USA in September and the line-up has been announced.

May 13, 2013
Ben Gillies at Noise11
Silverchair’s Ben Gillies Performs for Troops In Afghanistan

Silverchair drummer Ben Gillies has returned from a tour of duty to Afghanistan where be played for the troops with his other band Bento.

May 13, 2013
Tommy Chong image by Ros O'Gorman
Tommy Chong Announces He Is Cancer-Free

Almost a year ago, Tommy Chong of Cheech and Chong announced that he was suffering from prostate cancer.  Today, he says he is cancer free.

May 13, 2013
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Ed Sheeran Says Reports Of Taylor Swift’s Lovelife Are Greatly Exaggerated

Ed Sheeran thinks Taylor Swift's reputation as a serial dater is a mistake.

May 13, 2013
Chris Hadfield
Chris Hadfield Stars In The First Music Video Ever Recorded In Space

Chris Hadfield (the Commander of the International Space Station) has just posted his David Bowie inspired cover 'Space Oddity' filmed in space on his twitter account (https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield).

May 13, 2013
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Street Sign 1 Kanye West 0

Kanye West was sporting a large gash on his forehead Saturday after banging into a street sign.

May 13, 2013
Menswear
Menswear’s Johnny Dean Makes Live Return Playing Bowie Covers

Menswear's singer has announced his first performance in 15 years.

May 13, 2013
Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age photo by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo
Elton John Guests On New Queens Of The Stone Age Album

Queens of the Stone Age reveal two new tracks from the forthcoming album '....Like Clockwork' which is released June 3.

May 13, 2013
Blues Music Awards
Tedeschi Trucks And Rolling Stones Win Blues Music Awards

Curtis Salgado was one of the big winner at Saturday night's Blues Music Awards, taking home the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award, Soul Blues Album for Soul Shot and Souls Blue Album.

May 13, 2013
Bring Me The Horizon
Bring Me The Horizon And Fall Out Boy Up For Kerrang! Awards

Bring Me The Horizon, Pierce The Veil and Fall Out Boy dominate the shortlist for this year's Relentless Kerrang! Awards with four nominations each, while Black Veil Brides scoop three group nods.

May 13, 2013
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Black Sabbath Play It Safe At Ozzfest Japan

Black Sabbath looks to have settled on a standard setlist and have stopped road-testing the songs from the upcoming ‘13’ album, except for the single.

May 13, 2013
Pink: Photo Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo
Pink Equals Record With 17th Melbourne Show

Pink has added a 17th show for Melbourne and in doing so has equalled the record run she achieved in the city on her last tour.

May 13, 2013
Rolf Harris images by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo
New Rolf Harris Accusations About To Surface

Australian musical theatre star Rhonda Burchmore has publicly spoken about her time with Rolf Harris and says while he was “flirtatious” he was also “harmless’.

May 12, 2013
Katy Perry. image by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo
Katy Perry Joins The Rolling Stones In Las Vegas VIDEO

The Rolling Stones 50 and Counting tour moved down Route 66 to Las Vegas this weekend and Katy Perry was the honky tonk woman Mick Jagger emotionally rescued for the ride.

May 12, 2013
Meat Loaf - Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo
Meat Loaf Goes In For The Last Bat SETLIST

Meat Loaf is just over one month into his Last at Bat Farewell Tour playing in cities around Europe. Although he has threatened it before, the singer says this truly is his last tour as his body will not handle the nightly stress that his shows require.

May 12, 2013
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Paul Williams Talks About Daft Punk Collaboration

On of the most anticipated albums of 2013 is Random Access Memories by French duo Daft Punk, their first album of original music in eight years (not counting the soundtrack to Tron: Legacy).

May 12, 2013
Jeff Hanneman of Slayer, Noise11, Photo
Jeff Hanneman Causes Of Death Was Cirrhosis

In the days since the death of Slayer's Jeff Hanneman, many speculated that it was a 2011 spider bite and the related necrotizing fasciitis, but it turns out that it was actually cirrhosis of the liver.

May 12, 2013
Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Fleetwood Mac Have More New Music Coming

Fleetwood Mac released their gift to the fans, the four track EP Extended Play, last week but there may be more where that came from.

May 12, 2013
Deep Purple: Photo By Ros O'Gorman, Photo, Noise11
Deep Purple Fail To Crack America. Now What?

Critics are praising their latest album, Now What?! Fans put them at the top of Rolling Stones' list of artists that should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They have been loved worldwide since their debut in 1968?

May 12, 2013
Michael Buble To Be Loved, Noise11, Photo
Michael Buble Is Spending The Day With Your Mother

With Mothers Day on Sunday the 11th of May, it seems as though quite a lot of Mums will be receiving the Michael Buble album “To Be Loved”.

May 12, 2013
Robin Thicke, Noise11, Photo
Robin Thicke Scores His First Australian Number One Song

US Singer Robin Thicke moves up two places to No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart this week with his track “Blurred Lines”.

May 12, 2013
Elvis Costello, ADOTG, Photo By Ros OGorman, Noise11, Photo
Chuck Lorre To Work With Burt Bacharach And Elvis Costello On Musical

Producer Chuck Lorre, the creator of ‘Two and a Half Men’, ‘The Big Bang Theory’ and ‘Mike and Molly’ is working on a musical with Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach.

May 11, 2013
Russell Morris, Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo
Russell Morris Takes Sharkmouth Out Live

Russell Morris is the first to admit he is back from the dead. In fact, he jokes he is Lazarus. Morris had a musical rebirth because he followed his gut and recorded the album he wanted to make, against all odds.

May 11, 2013