Guns N’ Roses and ZZ Top will head to Australia for a double header in March.

Black Sabbath are nearing completion of their first album with Ozzy Osbourne in 35 years and then they will spend most of 2013 touring.

Janet Jackson is engaged to Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana, according to reports.

19-year old Brooklyn rapper Capital Steez has died, presumed by suicide.

It is possible Adele ‘21’ has become the first album since Delta Goodrem ‘Innocent Eyes’ to sell over 1,000,000 copies in Australia. ‘21’ is currently certified 14x Platinum by ARIA for sales of 980,000.

Sir George Martin will receive the Award for Outstanding Contribution to U.K. Music from the Music Producers Guild at their annual ceremony, February 7, at the Cafe de Paris in London.

Hollywood has lost two of America’s best known and loved actors this holiday break with the death of both Charles Durning and Jack Klugman on Christmas Eve.

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, best known for his score to ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ and ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ has died at age 76.

Marva Whitney, one of the greats of funk and soul and the woman whom James Brown called “Soul Sister #1", passed away last night (December 23, 2012). She was 68.

Queens Of The Stone Age have been working on their first album in five years and Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters has revealed he has been in the studio with the band.

Michael Buble ‘Christmas; has been the biggest selling album of the Christmas season with 123,384 taking home ‘Christmas’ this Christmas. And that is just the December figures so far.

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has invested in the London music shop where he bought his first drum-kit.

Mike Scaccia, guitarist for metal bands Ministry, Rigor Mortis and the Revolting Cocks, collapsed while playing on stage Saturday night in Fort Worth, TX. He was 47.

Michael Buble holds at No.1 for a third straight week on the ARIA Albums chart, becoming the eighth non-consecutive week that his “Christmas” album has spent at the top (five weeks last Xmas, three {so far} this year).

Thrift Shop for Macklemore and Ryan Lewis holds for a fourth week at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart, becoming the fourth longest running number one song for the year, but if it stays atop for a fifth week it will tie for third longest of the year. 

PSY ‘Gangnam Style’ has been viewed more than 1 billion times on YouTube.

Lee Dorman, bass player for Iron Butterfly from 1967-1969, has been found dead in his car in California, aged 70.

Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan have performed their number one duet together again for the first time since the 80s.

Sir Elton John and David Furnish visited the Philippines last week to give the gift of hearing to more than 400 children and adults in need.

Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has married his 34-year old girlfriend Sally Humphreys with Rod Stewart as his best man.

Kickstarter has done great things for the music industry, and the latest artist to crowd-source the funds for their latest album is Lester Chambers who had success in the 60s as part of The Chambers Brothers.

The Psychedelic Furs have been forced to cancel their December and January shows after Richard Butler had spinal surgery.

Two months ago, Ted Nugent hosted the special Ted Nugent Gun Country on the Discovery Channel, leading the singer to say that there would be at least twelve editions per year.

With Prince as executive producer and featuring artists like Maceo Parker and Trombone Shorty, Andy Allo's new album, Superconductor, immediately topped Amazon's Soul and R&B charts following its release last month. Noise11 had a listen to see what all the fuss was about. 

Thin Lizzy will officially be no more after their upcoming Australian tour with Kiss and Motley Crue. In an interview with Noise11.com, Scott Gorham has revealed his new band will be called Black Star Riders.

The members of LostProphet say they in shocked at the Child Sex allegations brought against their singer Ian Watkins.

For The Fallen Dreams can no longer make it to Australia next month for the Boys of Summer tour but San Francisco’s First Blood have jumped in to replace them.

John Mayer wants you to make the music video for his new song ‘Something Like Olivia’.

Federation Square Melbourne will once again become a live music venue with free music acts throughout January.

Australia's radio industry has once again showed its lack of support for Australian music in 2012 with figures released today showing that just one Australian song made the Top 10 airplay figures this year.