South by Southwest has announced a new batch of artists from around the world, including Australia’s own Lanie Lane and Oh Mercy.

Have your brain warped by the hypnotic witchcraft of Seattle avant garde hip-hop collective Shabazz Palaces.

Kanye West and The Neptunes produce Pusha T’s first official solo album, with Diddy, 50 Cent, Pharrell and others appearing.

The second announcement for Bluesfest features the return of Crosby, Still & Nash to Australia as well as UK ska band The Specials.

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu and Jessica Mauboy will perform for Barack Obama tomorrow when the US President flies into Darwin.

Brazil’s biggest metal export, Sepultura, has got a new drummer.

Despite racking up 7 UK number one singles and 34 UK top ten hits in the 1960's, Sir Cliff Richard, who's sold around 250 million records worldwide during a career spanning over fifty years, has been banned from the playlist of a new radio station dedicated to that era, before it's even been launched.

Billy Corgan jokes about drugs, Bruno Mars hates puppies, Pete Yorn duets with Scarlett Johansson, Ice Cube goes to Vegas, and heaps more.

Henry Rollins will be back in Australia next April for a month long spoken word tour.

Fractious and fun Welsh rock unit Future Of The Left stream their new EP online before their Australian tour.

A mystery bidder has paid almost $8000 for lingerie once worn by Kylie Minogue.

Mac Miller has the number one album in America this week with ‘Blue Slide Park’.

Canadian ethereal pop group Austra, Pitchfork faves Girls and South London producer SBTRKT announce sideshows.

Grouplove hit Letterman, 50 Cent hints about his next album, Bon Jovi post up big tour snaps, Sia studio schmoozes with stars, and heaps more.

The word on the street is that Google will launch its long-talked about music store this Wednesday putting the first serious rival to Apple’s iTunes in play.

One of Melbourne’s most loved venues The Hi-Fi Bar is going to open up a venue in Sydney.

Nelly is the man behind the Ex’treme Institute, the new audio engineering school based in St Louis.

iTunes has released iTunes Match, a cloud based device to store the content in your iTunes.

Tracking has been completed for the third Children Collide album.

In Brazil, Courtney Love whips her top off, then storms offstage, then returns to slag Dave Grohl.

Amanda Palmer’s punk cabaret outfit The Dresden Dolls announce their first shows in Australia since 2006.

Irish heartbreaker Ronan Keating announces a 2012 tour with Sharon Corr of The Coors.

Austin blues drummer Doyle Bramhall died suddenly on Sunday at the age of 62.

General Pant’s music label Major Label has merged the bubble artist mentoring program and signed a new act, The Khanz.

Gunners tweet onstage pics, Portishead, The Flaming Lips and PVT talk Harvest, NKOTB book NYC NYE gig, Willow Smith gets hacked, and heaps more.

CONTEST HAS FINISHED FOOTPRINTS – The Best Of Powderfinger 2001-2011 brings together 18 musical moments to serve as a permanent reminder of what made Powderfinger one the greatest and most popular Australian bands of all time. 

CONTEST HAS FINISHED From start to finish, there was always music playing in the background during production of RED DOG.

Japanese masters of rock weirdness, Boris, book a run of dates in Australia for March next year.

The Rolling Stones are playing down the possibility of any 50th anniversary shows next year.

Susan Boyle’s third album Someone To Watch Over Me shuffles the top ten down in this week’s chart wrap.