Nicki Minaj slips out her new track, ‘Roman Reloaded’, featuring Lil Wayne and some very recent references.

Supergroup Spectrum Road, featuring members of Living Colour, Cream, Santana and Lenny Kravitz’ band, will release their debut album in June.

Triplej’s annual compilation, Aqua, Sleigh Bells and Ting Tings lead the new releases this week.

Zola Jesus has had her song In Your Nature rebuilt by filmmaker turned musician David Lynch.

UK boy band sensation One Direction have announced Australian tour dates.

Following her retirement from live performance, Sia delivers an 18-track ‘Best Of’ album.

Gotye has revealed a clever new clip, which was reportedly nine months in the making.

ABC youth network Triple J was the big winner in the first radio survey of 2012 but not with the youth.

Three giants of rock from the late-70's and early-80's are joining forces for an early summer tour. Styx, REO Speedwagon and Ted Nugent will take their Midwest Rock 'N Roll Express on the road starting May 1 in Hidalgo, TX and finish up July 7 in Gilford, NY.

The author of Punching Tom Hanks offers a $1000 bounty to anyone who beats up Chris Brown.

Colorado electro trio Robotic Pirate Monkey have remixed Gotye and Kimbra’s ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’.

Today is SLAM Day, so do your bit and support Australian music with a choice of over 130 shows.

Paul Weller has dropped the video for ‘That Dangerous Age’, the first single from his upcoming ‘Sonik Kick’.

Blur frontman Damon Albarn and Oasis’ Noel Gallagher literally kissed and made up at the BRIT Awards.

Chris Reimer, guitarist for the Calgary, Canada based band Women died in his sleep earlier this week at 26 years old.

Noise-pop stars Sleigh Bells say that they’ll be in Australia twice this year.

Californian stoner rock gods Fu Manchu add full dates to complement their Cherry Rock headliner.

The collaborative track from Gorillaz, James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and Andre 3000 of Outkast appears online.

Lady Gaga has added more shows for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Auckland.

The Beatles have caught up with the 90s. They have released their first official ringtones.

The Cult will headline the SXSW Auditorium Shores Stage on Saturday, March 17.

The Amy Winehouse DVD entitled Never Forgotten has been recalled after the licensor failed to clear some of the footage in the film.

Massive regional fest Groovin The Moo lose a US act and replace them with an Australian one.

Over 130 Australian venues have registered shows for Thursday’s 'Save Live Australia's Music Day'.

Adele ‘21’ sold around 716,000 units this week following the Grammy Awards.

President Obama had a personal re-enactment of the Rolling Stones ‘Get Yer Yas Yas’ 1969 Madison Square Garden bill tonight when Mick Jagger and B.B. King performed at The White House.

“I was raised out of steel here in the swamps of Jersey,” sings Bruce Springsteen in the open line of the title track of ‘Wrecking Ball’. The 17th Springsteen album (and first since the death of E Street Band co-founder Clarence Clemons) is on the way.

Norah Jones releases tracks, artwork, title and release date for her new Danger Mouse-produced album.

The BRIT Awards have been handed down for another year and the big three went to Adele for Best Female, Ed Sheeran for Best Male and Coldplay for Best Group.

Music industry legend Kim Fowley may only have a few weeks left to live.