The Hoodoo Gurus are heading to Tasmania today to play for the Mona Bushfire Appeal and then another Dig It Up tour will get underway.

Bloc Party will play their own shows in addition to the Future Music Festival shows in March.

The Rainbow Serpent Festival is expected to go ahead this weekend if a positive resolution with Pyrenees Shire in western Victoria is achieved today.

Red Hot Chili Peppers played their second Australian show on the Big Day Out tour last night (January 20, 2013).

Pre-production or a movie about the life of AC/DC singer Bon Scott is underway with the initial scene being shot in South Carolina this week. The movie will be called ‘Bon Scott: The Legend of AC/DC’.

The next rock and roll 50th anniversary coming up will be The Hollies. Founding member Bobby Elliott tells Noise11 that he counts the 50th from the first date The Hollies stepped foot in Abbey Road Studios.

Reggae great Jimmy Cliff sees himself as an actor more so than the Jamaican singing star he became.

A reunion for The Jam is still not a possibility because of drummer Rick Buckler. Founding members Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton are great mates these days but Rick is now the one missing in action.

Dave Grohl’s Sound City Players supergroup performed at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah on January 19 to launch Grohl’s ‘Sound City: Real To Reel’ documentary.

Bruno Mars holds for a second week at No.1 on the ARIA Albums chart with “Unorthodox Jukebox”, but making a bid for the top spot is the “Les Miserables” soundtrack, which rises a place to No.2 this week, whilst the current (and last week) No.1 singles holder Macklemore and Ryan Lewis jump up five places to No.3 with “The Heist” album (now Gold ● in sales).

For only the second time this century, an artist has replaced themselves at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart, as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis leap up to the No.1 spot (from last weeks No.9) with the song “Same Love” (now Gold ● in sales) and it replaces the seven week running No.1 track “Thrift Shop” which drops to No.3 this week.

Michael J. Fox has called up Taylor Swift after a Tina Fey Golden Globes jokes took on a life of its own.

Elvis Costello says he would happily quit music to go into radio comedy.

Eels didn’t make the movie ‘This Is 40’ because the scene ended up on “the cutting room floor”. (Does that term even apply now that everything is digital?)

Janis Joplin would have turned 70 year old today had she not died at in 1970 at the age of 27.

The Angels, Brewster Gleeson Brewster Bailey Norton, have already locked away dates for the first half of 2013.

Billboard have announced today that music legend Prince will be honoured at their music awards this year, receiving the Billboard Icon Award and performing at the ceremony.

According to US television ratings, more people were interested in what the family of Whitney Houston had to say after her death over Lance Armstrong’s Oprah Winfrey confession.

Blues legend Taj Mahal can lay credit to putting Ben Harper on the road to success.

10,000 Maniacs have been forced to cancel their US tour because guitarist Jeff Erickson is in need of urgent back surgery.

Paul Simon will perform Bluesfest sideshows around Australia with Rufus Wainwright in March.

Red Hot Chili Peppers mixed it up a little but basically played the same show as New Zealand for their first Australian show at the Big Day Out in Sydney this evening (January 18, 2013).

Wilko Johnson, founding member of Dr Feelgood and one-time member of Ian Dury & The Blockheads, has announced four final dates before he dies.

The Peats Ridge Festival north of Sydney has come to an end. Revenues from the recent event did not cover the costs of the event and the Festival’s accountants have advised that the company be wound up.

Sunday February 17 will mark the 40th anniversary of The Rolling Stones concert in Melbourne, Australia at the Kooyong Tennis Centre.

Dave Stewart has been recording his next album at a secret location in Tahiti.

Collarts, the Australian College of the Arts, will have its next Open Day tomorrow (Saturday, January 18).

Thursday was lineup announcement day for the 2013 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and it is full of veteran artists.

The biopic of singer James Brown is moving forward with producers starting the casting process.

For the last two years, Kenny Loggins has been doing double duty, touring his own hits along with working on his new group, Blue Sky Riders.