The owner of an Irish field has objected to pop starlet Rihanna’s semi-nude video clip film shoot.

Bona fide Oklahoma freaks The Flaming Lips have announced two sideshows for November’s Harvest Fest.

John Farnham has reinvented some of his greatest hits for his upcoming tour and has recorded an album of the songs before he hits the road.

Gloria Estefan delivers her first English-language album in eight years, produced by Pharrell Williams.

After hanging up his headphones at Nova, Sydney Merrick Watts has jumped ship to opposition station Triple M replacing Roy and HG.

Funk-soul legends The Family Stone team up with Hypnotic Brass Ensemble for Australian sideshows.

Blink-182 are streaming their new album Neighbourhoods and you get to listen to it with your neighbours.

John Singleton, director of Boyz In Da Hood, is in talks with Ice Cube about making a documentary on notorious hip-hop crew N.W.A.

Yes guitarist Steve Howe will pay homage to his classical roots with the album ‘Time’, to be released in November.

Emo’s, Austin’s legendary punk music venue, will close its doors at the end of the year but owner Frank Hendrix has a new home.

In celebration of the upcoming re-release of the Pink Floyd catalog, a new inflatable pig was put in flight above the Battersea Power Station to recreate the album cover from their LP Animals. 

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have announced the fifteen nominees for possible induction as their class of 2012. Among the group are nine first-time nominees along with six who are making another attempt at getting in. 

She was once a rebel but now thinks it might be time to go a little mainstream.

On October 24th, Reprise Records will release two very special and highly anticipated packages: a three-DVD set and a two-CD collection that feature unique live performances from many of the phenomenal artists who've performed at the beloved Annual Bridge School Benefit Concerts over the past 25 years.

The friends of Brisbane musician Danny Widdicombe will come together on October 21 for a benefit concert for Danny, who is battling cancer.

Aussie rap stars Bliss N Eso have produced a gorgeous video project featuring extreme sports stars for their latest single ‘Coastal Kids’.

Patrick Carney denies there will be a sequel to 2009’s hip-hop collab Blakroc but promises a new Black Keys album soon.

Angus and Julia Stone has a song on the new ‘The Twilight Saga’ soundtrack ‘Breaking Dawn’.

Ramshackle bluesman Tom Waits delivers the second single from his forthcoming album Bad As Me.

Undercover Lovers will reform to play a few shows in support of their new compilation ‘Wonderful Things: Retrospective’.

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.