Sydney Indie Punk Soul band Philadelphia Grand Jury have called it quits.

New Order have reformed minus founding member Peter Hook.

Justin Bieber has become the first person in the world to clock up over 2 billion views on YouTube.

Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead and rapper/producer DOOM release new song ‘Retarded Fren’.

Moody electro-soul-jazz newcomer Eliza Hull bewitches with atmospherics.

Foo Fighters gear up for their monster stadium tour by adding Australia’s finest up-and-comers to support.

Justin Bieber is a dad? What tha? The news doing the rounds today is that Baby Bieber might have a Bieber Baby.

The Living End’s Chris Cheney will perform at EG Awards in Melbourne to honour The Hoodoo Gurus.

Loopy Atlanta “flower punks” The Black Lips deliver festival sideshows around the country.

Ad-Rock from the Beastie Boys has written the soundtrack to an off-Broadway play written by his father.

Nicki Minaj is on a replying spree, The Bronx go arena-wide with Foo Fighters, 50 Cent has a new novel, A-Trak proposes to Kim Kardashian and heaps more.

When Roger Waters took The Wall out on tour, it's doubtful that he saw it as being a multi-year trek. He's now 120 shows in and has played for 1.6 million people and he isn't done yet.

Janet Jackson flew into Brisbane last night after cutting short her Australian tour two weeks ago to be with her family during the Dr. Conrad Murray trial in Los Angeles.

Melbourne’s Big Scary, Sydney’s The Black Ryder and Auckland’s Avalanche City are three of the first bands named to play SXSW 2012.

Island Records has scheduled what it is calling the third Amy Winehouse album ‘Lioness: Hidden Treasures’.

The Lennon & McCartney of Australian music festivals Vivian Lees and Ken West have split.

Rancid’s Tim Armstrong is releasing his new music via a webisode series called ‘Tim Timebomb’s RockNRoll Theater’.

The first track from the upcoming Michael Jackson album, Immortal, was released at 11:00 AM today.

Following his work on the new, chart-topping Coldplay album, super-producer Brian Eno delivers a new EP.

The Rolling Stones ‘No Spare Parts’ will be released as a limited edition 7” vinyl single.

Bieber retweets Aziz Ansari, Vampire Weekend become a Halloween costume, Bruno Mars is in a strip club, Tommy Lee’s in Vegas, and heaps more.

News sites have been reporting online rumours that Adele’s throat surgery may be due to cancer.

ARIA will induct Kylie Minogue and The Wiggles into the ARIA Hall of Fame at the 2011 ARIA Awards on November 27.

Kings Of Leon drummer Nathan Followill has ripped into Qantas over the shutdown just before their Oz tour.

Joy of joys, Coldplay’s new album knocks Adele off the top in this week’s ARIA Chart wrap.

20 years after his death Freddie Mercury may be returning to his old job as lead singer of Queen.

Peter Gabriel says that all it would take to put Genesis back together is a “large brown envelope”.

Beavis and Butthead have returned to the television screen after 13 years and the new audience loves it.

The Rolling Stones will release Some Girls: Deluxe Edition on November 21 via Universal Republic. Included is a remastered version of the original album on the first disc and twelve vintage unreleased tracks.

It is unlikely Michael Stipe will ever start a solo career despite the recent break-up of R.E.M..