The Rose Tattoo frontman is planning a tilt at politics as a National and is already eyeing off two federal seats in NSW.

Melbourne music fans will be treated to a series of free live music events at Docklands later this week.

Hear all nineteen remixes of tracks from Radiohead’s King Of Limbs streaming online.

Falls Festival visitors Beirut and The Kooks have booked their sideshows in the new year.

The Bon Iver tour keeps rolling with a third and final Brisbane date.

The reformed Spin Doctors have taken their classic ‘Pocket Full Of Kyptonite’ on the road to mark the 20th anniversary of the release of the album.

Fleet Foxes will be getting out of the pubs and clubs and grabbing some class when they play the Sydney Opera House next year.

American rapper and producer J. Cole will have the number one album in the USA by week’s end. ‘Cole World: The Sideline Story’ has a good lead over all other releases this week.

The next Aztec Music release will be the 1977 recordings from Aussie punk legends X.

Chris Taylor from indie darlings Grizzly Bear will perform a one-off side show for side project CANT.

Gene Simmons has married Shannon Tweed, his lady of 28 years and mother to his two children Nick and Sophie.

Courtney Love has scored a book deal to write a “tell-all” memoir to “set the record straight”.

Flea and Thom Yorke have both talked about the album from their supergroup Atoms For Peace.

Magnetic Fields’ ringleader Stephen Merritt is set to release an album of rare early tracks.

The Laneway Festival has honoured late Magic Dirt bassist Dean Turner with a new stage.

Adele still reigns supreme on the charts but twelve new entries break into the top 25 in this week’s chart.

What a band. Alice Cooper has Steve Hunter back in the band. Hunter played with Cooper on the ‘Billion Dollar Babies’ and ‘Muscle of Love’ albums. He is also the lead guitarist on the amazing opening for ‘Sweet Jane’ on Lou Reed’s ‘Rock and Roll Animal’.

The ‘She Will Have Her Way’ and ‘He Will Have His Way’ Tim and Neil Finn tribute albums have been combined into one double pack ‘They Will Have Their Way’ but with four new tracks.

EMI Records will release the first ever Frank Sinatra compilation combining songs from his Capitol Records and Reprise years in November.

Kanye West has made his Paris fashion debut by launching Yeezi, his new line of ladies underwear.

Bruce Springsteen will discuss the decision to continue or not with the E Street Band at a band meeting later this month.

Meat Loaf’s performance at the AFL Grand Final in Melbourne is being called the worst Grand Final performance ever.

Something is going on in the Bloc Party camp and singer Kele Okereke is being left in the dark about it.

Tony Bennett thinks Amy Winehouse was aware she was in 'trouble'.

The woman that was know as the Mother of Hip-Hop for her involvement in Sugar Hill Records and the first rap hit, Rapper's Delight, has passed away at the age of 75. Sylvia Robinson died on Thursday in a New York hospital from congestive heart failure.

NCM Fathom, More2Screen and Eagle Rock Entertainment are joining forces to present the Rolling Stones' Some Girls Live in Texas on over 300 screens in the U.S. on October 18.

BDO2012 pretty much spend all of today as the top trending term on Twitter.

Super-producer Mark Ronson does his bit for the London Olympics by sampling athletes’ noises.

Folk hero Bon Iver and psych rock legend Roky Erickson sign on for Golden Plains 2012.

The upcoming Big Day Out 2012 will mark the 20th year since the show began back in January 1992.