The Rolling Stones may have a few secret warm-up gigs planned under the name The Cockroaches, which will be interesting because that was the name of The Wiggles before they became The Wiggles.

Snoop Dogg insists he couldn't ever stop rapping.

Prince wowed a host of stars with a secret performance last night.

Ringo Starr will tour Australia for promoter Lennard Promotions for the first time ever as a solo act.

X Factor winner Reece Mastin tells Noise11 he found out who his true fans were when they discovered he was dating Home And Away star Rhiannon Fish.

Britain's Q magazine has held their annual awards show in London, honoring the best music of the last 12 months.

A fascinating BBC documentary on Jeff Lynne recently revealed a strangely modest Brummy, in awe at working alongside the likes of the Beatles (in the mid-nineties as a producer) but also showed an artist who is both a perfectionist and a control freak.

Barry Manilow will return to Broadway for a limited series of shows at the St. James Theatre with previews starting on January 18 and an opening night of January 24.

Australian acts wanting to apply to showcase at SXSW 2013 have until November 7 to do so.

It has been a decade since James Taylor released an album of original material, all the way back to 2002's October Road.

Yesterday, multi-million selling British band Keane won 'Best Video' at the Q Awards for their critically acclaimed horror movie music video for 'Disconnected', directed by 'The Orphanage' and 2012 blockbuster 'The Impossible' directors JA Bayona and Sergio G. Sanchez and taken from their Number 1 album 'Strangeland'.

Crosby, Stills and Nash closed their 80-date summer tour with a landmark show at the Beacon Theatre on Monday night.

Chris Moyles - radio DJ, stage performer, TV presenter and recording artist extraordinaire ' will release his sophomore album The Difficult Second Album on 5th November, through Mercury Records.

It is impossible not to admire Glen Campbell.

Adele will not attend the Skyfall premiere as she 'can't bear' to be away from her son.

Tattoo artist Kevin Paul reveals that the body ink of One Direction group members are 'all pretty different'.

Kylie Minogue fantasises about her retirement - and there is "not a false eyelash in sight".

Dionne Warwick once went 'a little bit ballistic' when The Beatles were refused entry to her show.

Neil Young will jump on Twitter and answer questions from fans this week.

Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo did something special this week in Melbourne. He performed at iconic Pure Pop Records in St Kilda and was then quizzed by You Am I’s Tim Rogers.

A day before a major press conference, Depeche Mode announced that they will have a new album in the spring which they will support with a European tour followed by one around North America.

The story of the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, is coming to the big screen thanks to the producing duo of Mick Jagger and Brian Grazer along with Victoria Pearlman of Jagged Films and Erica Huggins of Imagine Entertainment.

Morrissey has been forced to postpone four shows so he could fly back to England where his mother is said to be hospitalized.

James Blunt has not quit music as reported by that bastion of credibility the Daily Mail.

Stuart Coupe, the well-known music journo, broadcaster, label owner and artist manager, will present ‘Wild About You’, a panel about the history of Australian and New Zealand music at SXSW in 2013.

The line-up for Golden Plains 7 is out and Dinosaur Jr and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion lead the line-up following on from the already announced Cat Power and George Clinton.

Blind Boys Of Alabama and Sweet Honey In The Rock have announced sideshows around Bluesfest 2013.

Arlo Guthrie and Gurrumul lead the first round of artist announcements for the Port Fairy Folk Music Festival.

Live Nation have announced details of the Hit Factory Live - Christmas Cracker and our very own Dean 'Midas' Maynard found out more...

ABC will show the new documentary by Spike Lee on Michael Jackson's Bad album on Thanksgiving night starting at 9:30 PM (EST).