REM fans are yet to hear three new tracks that will surface of their most comprehensive compilation ever, the 2CD ‘Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982-2011’ due next month.

Irish singer/songwriter Ciaran Gribbin is the new lead singe of INXS replacing JD Fortune who recently departed the band for a second time.

Lou Reed and Metallica have given fans a whole song as a teaser to their upcoming collaborative album, ‘Lulu’, due at the end of October.

On October 11, the Melbourne music community will be coming together for a benefit concert for Chocolate Starfish guitarist Zoran Romic, who is undergoing treatment from non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

At this year’s Face The Music conference in Melbourne, I will be hosting the keynote address with international guest Brent Grulke, the creative director of SXSW.

Madman are set to release the first three seasons of Rockwiz, uncut, on DVD.

Jimmy Fallon will hand his show over to Pink Floyd this week to mark the reissue of the classic ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ album and on Tuesday night Roger Waters will perform with Foo Fighters.

Radiohead were the first musical guests for the new season of Saturday Night Live on the weekend.

Sydney quartet The Jezabels run right up to Adele in this week’s ARIA Chart wrap.

The Flaming Lips have put their 6 hour song ‘I Found This Star On The Ground’ on Soundcloud for you to listen to.

Cee Lo Green and Jordan Sparks have been cast for the movie ‘Sparkle’.

Congrats to indie band The Jezabels who have debuted at no. 2 on the ARIA chart with their debut album ‘Prisoner’.

Soul and funk legend Sly Stone is now homeless and living in a van on the streets of Los Angeles.

Kim Wilde will head back to Australia at the end of October for the Rewind 80s Festival.

R&B singer Vesta Williams, who hit the R&B top 10 with Sweet, Sweet Love and Congratulations, was found dead Thursday in a Southern California hotel room. She was 53.

After 60 years and more than 70 albums, Tony Bennett is poised to have his first number 1 album. According to Hits Daily Double, Duets II will sell between 160 and 170,000 copies outdistancing Lady Antebellum who will move 140 to 150,000 copies of their album which is in its second week of release.

In 1994 I had the pleasure of interviewing George Harrison. It was the only interview he did with Australia in the decade before his untimely death in 2001.

The Universal Music Group is planning on increasing music sales the good old-fashioned way … by advertising. 

Radiohead release the final instalment of their remix vinyls on Monday.

INXS have a new song at their website and the lead vocal sounds a lot like U2’s Bono.

Tom Hamilton, bassist for Aerosmith, has posted a video on the band's site updating everyone on the status of the new album.

Following closely on the heals of the announcement of the Billy Joel box set comes word of an even bigger set for Leonard Cohen.

Guns N' Roses are hitting the road in the U.S. for the first time in five years.

When R.E.M. completed their Accelerate tour on November 18, 2008 in Mexico City, nobody would have imagined that it was their last performance.

Someone should tell the good people at Australia’s biggest telco Telstra that Rebecca Black’s 15 minutes of fame ended … well 15 minutes after we first heard of her.

Baron Wolman, the original music photographer for Rolling Stone magazine, will be at The Raw Gallery in South Melbourne for the start of his Every Picture Tells A Story exhibition.

Music at the Healesville Track is returning for its second year with Joe Camilleri, Shane Howard and John Schumann as well as Mick Thomas, Rebecca Barnard, Monique Brumby and Damian Howard.

The Little Willies will release their second album in January, 2012.

EMI Records is releasing the most comprehensive package of the classic Pink Floyd ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ this week.

Joe Camilleri is a father again. 63-year old Joe and his partner, signer Atlanta Coogan, welcomed daughter Aurora Lily into the world earlier this week.