Thom Yorke’s new supergroup Atoms For Peace is closer for release than we thought. Hollywood record store Amoeba has the 12” ‘Default’ now available for preorder.

When Garbage released ‘Not Your Kind Of People’ this year it was their first album together in seven years.

The Hoodoo Gurus will hit the wineries from today for their first gig in a while.

In Noise11 music news this week the story of PSY’s ARIA dominance generated the most eyeballs and news of the Black Sabbath tour came in a close second.

The biggest touring news in Australia this week was the announcement that Black Sabbath will hit the region late April, 2013.

Taylor Swift remains “Red” for a second week at No.1 on the ARIA Albums chart this week, becoming her longest run at the top of our charts, as her previous No.1 “Speak Now” only lasted one week at the top back in November of 2010. The album also selling enough this week to pick up a Platinum sales certification.

PSY’s sixth week at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with “Gangnam Style” elevates the song to equal second longest running chart-topper for 2012, matching the six weeks achieved by “Wild Ones” for Flo Rida and Sia (Jan/Feb) and then “Battle Scars” for Guy Sebastian and Lupe Fiasco (Aug/Sept).

At a vigil last night for Suicide Silence frontman Mitch Lucker, who died early on November 1st from injuries sustained from a motorcycle accident, his wife Jolie Carmadella spoke of his alcohol addiction and pleaded with the crowd that had gathered to farewell him to learn from his tragic passing.

ZZ Top fans had a special treat when Austin legend Jimmie Vaughan joined them on stage.

Gary Clark Jr is the first featured artist in the Grammy.com interview series The Word Up From Down Under, with Noise11.

Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi and Billy Joel were just three of the superstars who performed at the Hurricane Sandy benefit this evening.

MusiCares has established a fund to support people in the music community affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Roger Waters and John Mayer have joined the line-up for the 6th annual Stand Up For Heroes event at New York’s Beacon Theatre next week.

Skylar Grey's latest single, 'C'mon Let Me Ride', set for release next month, will feature Eminem singing the famous hook from Queen's 'Bicycle Race'.

The 2012 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards were presented on Thursday night, with Six60 staying true to their name by winning six Tuis, including Single of the Year and Best Group, while Kimbra took home five awards, including Best Female Solo Artist and Album of the Year, for her internationally successful Vows.

Aston Shuffle DJs, Twinsy, Purple Sneaker DJs, Tyler Touché and triple J fave Lewi McKirdy have just been announced as the second round of artists for the new-look Soundscape Festival.

After today's earlier story about Muse's new lyric video for their latest single, Follow Me, keen-eyed fans have discovered a juicy little secret that leads the way to a free download of a live version of the song from the O2 Arena in London.

Alternative indie pop quartet, Alt-J, last night won the highly coveted U.K. Barclaycard Mercury Prize for their debut album, An Awesome Wave.

First round nominations for the 2012 J Awards have been announced today, with Tame Impala amongst the nominees for Australian Album of the Year and Goyte nominated for Australian Music Video of the Year.

Muse premiered the video for 'Follow Me', the third single from their new album The 2nd Law, on their website and on YouTube today.

The author of several hit singles for other artists, LP is now emerging as a star in her own right, with her first official headline club show in Los Angeles on November 5th at the famed Troubadour selling out instantly. 

The Rolling Stones have played a second secret gig in Paris, this time at the 1800 seater Theatre Mogador.

13-time Grammy winning producer, songwriter and rapper Eminem has signed on as executive producer of the hotly anticipated debut album from five-time Grammy-nominated singer songwriter Skylar Grey.

Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar's album, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, has had a huge week in the U.S., debuting with more than 241,000 in sales and giving him the highest selling album for a new artist in 2012.

Kiss confirmed this week what has been rumoured for a while, with the announcement of The Casablanca Singles 1974-1982, a limited edition box set consisting of the band's 29 singles on legendary Casablanca label, to be released in December.

The Black Keys played a capacity show last night at Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl and tonight Dan Auerbach is going solo for a DJ set at the Cherry Bar.

With over 1.2 million copies downloaded last week, Taylor Swift's latest album, Red, has scored the highest SoundScan sales week in over a decade and has set the record for the highest worldwide digital album sales debut in iTunes history.

Jon Bon Jovi 'was desperate to be reunited' with his wife and children.

Marcus Mumford says it's 'not appealing' to be hailed as 'the next Coldplay'.

Jimmy Page has revealed the he is working on remastering all of Led Zeppelin's albums and that they plan to release one box set per album, starting next year.