Pat Carney of the Black Keys has said that the popularity of Nickelback proves that rock n’ roll is dying.

Velvet Revolver have patched up issues with singer Scott Weiland and will reunite for one show only on January 12, 2012.

The Allman Brothers have announced their annual Beacon Theater run for 2012.

Metallica will release the four-track ‘Beyond Magnetic’ EP on CD at the end of the month.

Ke$ha has said that her new goal is to bring rock and roll back from the dead for her next album.

Australia’s biggest touring festival, The Big Day Out has announced a new partnership with C3 Presents, the company behind American juggernaut festivals Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits Music Festival.

Peter Frampton has reunited with an old friend, the guitar he played on ‘Frampton Comes Alive’.

If you can handle it, welcome to the disturbing world of California’s glitch-hop terrors Death Grips.

Bonnie Raitt will return with a brand new album called ‘Slipstream’ in April. It will be her first album since ‘Souls Alike’ in 2005.

After giving away the long-awaited Get Loved, Faker are already talking titles and tracks for their next album.

Kele Okereke has revealed that Bloc Party are working on demos for their fourth album in the Big Apple.

Almost 700 unreleased songs by Irish rock legends Thin Lizzy have been unearthed and will be released as a box set.

Christina Perri finds heaven, Skrillex wants to play to dogs, Bryan Adams watches prehistoric soccer coverage, Kings Of Leon and The Strokes start a book club, and heaps more.

Van Halen’s new song ‘Tattoo’ will surface on January 10 kicking off a year of activity for the band including their first album with David Lee Roth in 28 years.

In very exciting news for fans of dreamy psych-pop, Dead Meadow and The Pink Mountaintops are heading to Australia together.

Sir Paul McCartney has picked an unusual name for his next album.

Josh Groban in a video blog featuring his brother Chris looking on announced that he is about to begin work on his sixth studio album and that he has a new music video on the way.

The Australian College of the Arts (Collarts) has added three new degree programs specialising in the music industry.

Restoration specialists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA have used technology previously used in the field of particle physics to recreate recordings created by Alexander Graham Bell, his cousin Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter in the 1880s.

Miles Kane says he and Alex Turner from Arctic Monkeys will get around to recording another album as The Last Shadow Puppets … eventually.

Hip-hop newbie and Heatwave visitor Kid Cudi is about to drop a rock side project featuring Empire Of The Sun.

Sydney’s favourite mischievous punk rockers Frenzal Rhomb have come up with a video that will make you laugh and cry at the same time.

A supposedly unearthed Bends-era Radiohead tune was actually written and performed by a Canadian baker.

Soul legend Aretha Franklin and Aerosmith lothario Steven Tyler both sign up for their third marriages.

Ian Molly Meldrum has made a further step to recovery after doctors operated on his vertebra.

Australia has 46 artists preparing for SXSW 2012.

Madonna fans just can’t keep a secret. A studio image featuring the full tracklisting and apparent album title for the new Madonna album has found its way online.

Cee Lo Green has a Twitter backlash on his hands after changing the lyrics to John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’.

The upcoming third studio album for Missy Higgins was produced by Adelaide singer songwriter Butterfly Boucher.

Sydney is brewing up a new supergroup. The Dinosaurs features members of AC/DC, The Angels, Hush, Gangajang and The Choirboys.