Neil Young is inviting musicians to cover an American classic and win $1000.

Duran Duran will release a new live-set on July 2 in the U.K. (date not yet announced for the U.S.) with A Diamond in the Mind. According to Duran Duran's official site, the Deluxe Edition of the set will include a Blu-Ray, DVD, CD and booklet.

Madonna will open her MDNA tour in Tel Aviv on May 31, two days after the original opening date.

Never mind that the average age of the five main members of the reunited Beach Boys is 68, it didn't stop them from putting on a two-set, 42-song show for the opening of their 50th Anniversary Tour Tuesday night in Tuscon.

US rapper Wiz Khalifa released his new single ‘Work Hard, Play Hard’, and has been arrested for marijuana possession.

Website Monstro has created a music chart from what is getting listened to, in real time, online and on social media.

Beloved UK trip-hop act Everything But The Girl are to re-release their first four albums.

29-year old Spotify founder Daniel Ek has done what it took Mick Jagger 50 years to do, earn a net worth of £190 million.

Tommy Marth, the touring and studio sax player for The Killers, has been found dead at age 33.

Lana Del Rey has posted a video collage for the b-side to ‘Blue Jeans’ – ‘Carmen’ – on YouTube.

The funeral for Men At Work’s Greg Ham will take place at the Fitzroy Town Hall in Melbourne next Wednesday.

Aussie musician Shannon Noll has been mentioned in the Cash for Tweet controversy, unveiled this week via ABC TV show Media Watch.

Platinum-selling R&B group TLC announce that they’ll tour, bringing the late Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes back to life on the big screen.

Missy Higgins has been announced as a speaker for Song Summit 2012.

Melissa Etheridge has added another gig in Brisbane, and says “It’s going to be a long show!”

Listen to Marilyn Manson team up with new best bro Johnny Depp on a cover of Carly Simon’s ‘You’re So Vain’.

The new Jason Mraz album ‘Love Is A Four Letter Word’ is officially his highest debuting album on the Billboard chart.

Modern Family stars Ty Burrell and Julie Bowen will host this year's Billboard Music Awards.

Brian May and Roger Taylor's touring salute to Queen, The Queen Extravaganza, opens on May 26 in Quebec. With the performing band made up of artists who were selected through an on-line screening process, the tour attempts to duplicate the music and live experience of Queen.

On February 11, 1964, two days after their earth-shattering appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.

With all the "I'm in"/"I'm out" talk over the last year or so, I'm not sure anybody thought they would see the day when a new Beach Boys song, featuring the surviving members, would be released.

The public has been invited to the studio of Levon Helm in Woodstock, NY on Thursday to celebrate the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members life and work. Helm died on April 19 after a battle with throat cancer.

Paul McCartney’s reissue of ‘RAM’ will come 41 years to the day after the original release.

The world premiere of Cat Stevens ‘Moonshadow’ musical will happen in Melbourne, Australia is May.

Australia’s music world will gather tonight in Byron Bay for a fund-raiser for Mi-Sex keyboard player Murray Burns, who suffered a stroke three songs into the bands set at A Day On The Green.

George Michael has finished work on his "best dance record ever".

Willie Nelson has unveiled a statue of himself along Willie Nelson Boulevard in his hometown of Austin last Friday (April 20).

Billy Bryans of Canada’s power-pop group The Parachute Club has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 63.

Florida’s Cannibal Corpse will be back in Australia in October touring off the back of the new album ‘Torture’.

Songwriting legend Paul Kelly joins a stunning line-up to support Melbourne music store and venue Pure Pop Records.