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.

Skyhooks singer Shirley Strachan would have turned 60 today.

Michael Buble ‘Christmas’ is the first number one album of 2012 and LMFAO ‘Sexy And I Know It’ the first number one single of 2012 in Australia.

Gotye ‘Making Mirrors’ was the biggest selling Australian album of 2011 and the only Australian album to make the year’s Top 10.

Primal Scream bass player Mani played his final gig on New Years Eve to start the new year back in The Stone Roses.

Van Halen took advantage of the estimated 1,000,000 people descending on Times Square in New York and the 100 million watching on TV on New Year’s Eve to unveil what is believed to be the album cover for the new album.

Producer Steve Lillywhite has been honoured by Queen Elizabeth II.

Adele's '21' topped the ARIA Top 100 chart and was the biggest selling album of 2011 in Australia.

LMFAO 'Party Rock Anthem' was the biggest selling song in Australia for 2011.

Not surprisingly Adele ‘21’ was the biggest selling album in Australia this year and LMFAO had the number one single with ‘Party Rock Anthem’.

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan is planning to open a Tea House in Chicago in the New Year.

Ian Molly Meldrum is gradually improving day by day but it will be a long time before he is back on his feet.

A bitter Pennsylvania musician was the one who started the Jon Bon Jovi is dead rumour just before Christmas.

Katherine Jenkins and Gethin Jones have split.

Beyonce and Jay-Z have a new daughter, according to UK press reports.

Fans of The Doors who were looking forward to the release of the 5 disc box set of 'L.A. Woman' have some bad news coming.

The 14-month marriage of Katy Perry and Russell Brand has come to an end.

Betty McQuade, best known for her hit ‘Midnight Bus’, has died in Brisbane on December 26, 2011 at age 70 after a long illness.