Peter Noble has unveiled the final announcement for Bluesfest 2012 with John Fogerty added in for a second performance at the festival on Monday April 9.

Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit has used the stage at Soundwave to mouth off at the promoters for the Big Day Out, calling them “fucking assholes”.

Muse are using a horn section on their next album.

Beloved post-punk trio My Disco book four shows in April and reveal their first video.

Keith Richards joined Eric Clapton onstage at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem for a benefit concert in the name of the late Hubert Sumlin to raise money for the Jazz Foundation.

Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees is back in a London hospital undergoing more treatment for liver and colon cancer.

What sounded like a one-off reunion of the original (or mostly original) Black Sabbath at this year's Download Festival has expanded, to one additional show.

Wally De Backer, a.k.a. Gotye, finally has a new song after ‘Something That I Used To Know’. ‘Easy Way Out’ is his latest single and video from ‘Making Mirrors’.

‘Man or Muppet’ for The Muppets movie has won the best Original Song music award at the Oscars.

Troy Cassar-Daley will release this eighth studio album his Friday.

Tim Commandeur and Chris Holland of Operator Please have a new project called Colour Coding.

Legendary songwriter Paul Williams has been a last minute addition as a speaker for SXSW.

Taylor Swift knocked back a teen leukemia patient who asked her to be his prom date… but returned with a far better counter-offer.

Adele equals Delta Goodrem’s record, and not much else happens, in this week’s ARIA Chart wrap.

Golden Plains playing times have been announced.

Radiohead will mount an East Coast tour of Australia in November.

Bruce Springsteen performed in a small New Jersey club on Saturday night for a fund-raiser for his former trainer Tony Strollo.

February 26 marks the 80th birthday of Johnny Cash.

The new Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band album ‘Wrecking Ball’ will include a studio version of ‘Land Of Hope And Dreams’, a song Springsteen has been performing live for more than a decade.

George Harrison, the youngest Beatle, would have been 69-years old this weekend.

Roy Estrada, an original member of both Little Feat and Frank Zappa’s Mothers Of Invention, has been jailed for 25 years for child molestation.

Nile Rodgers will be performing the INXS classic ‘Original Sin’ during Chic’s Playground Weekender set in Australia next weekend.

Robert Plant will debut his new band the Sensational Space Shifters at Womad in the UK in July.

Celebrity thug Chris Brown has been added to Supafest 2012. So has Missy Elliot, Big Sean and Naughty By Nature.

Whitney Houston died from a mixture of Valium, Xanax and alcohol, the coroner’s report will reveal.

Roxette have been setting the benchmark for pop performers during their Australian tour. This is how pop should be done, a real band playing real music.

Paris Hilton first new song ‘Drunk Text’ has hit YouTube and it’s, uh, weird.

Sinead O’Connor has said that a shoot for men’s magazine Playboy is on her bucket list.

The legendary late BBC DJ John Peel’s giant record collection is to be turned into an online museum.

The collaboration between Gorillaz, Andre 3000 and LCD Soundsystem mastermind James Murphy that we reported on yesterday is just a preview to a longer song.