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Angus Young AC/DC Etihad Stadium, Rock Or Bust World Tour. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
2022 APRA Music Awards, the Complete Winners List

The APRA Music Awards were held in Melbourne Tuesday night (3 May 2022) honoring Australian songwriters across 15 categories.

May 3, 2022
Icehouse perform at A Day In The Gardens in the Royal Botanical Gardens Melbourne on Sunday 12 March 2017.
Red Hot Summer Is All About Icehouse This Weekend

Duane McDonald is giving Mark Seymour the weekend off this weekend and taking Iva Davies and Icehouse into Queensland.

May 3, 2022
The Wiggles
The Wiggles Go On Display At The Australian Music Vault

The Australian Music Vault has added artefacts from The Wiggles as the group is set to receive the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Service to Australian Music.

May 3, 2022
The Cure Pornography
The Cure ‘Pornography’ Turns 40

‘Pornography’, the fourth album for The Cure is 40 years old.

May 3, 2022
Lady Gaga, Photo Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo
Lady Gaga Has Just Released The First ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Song ‘Hold My Hand’

The first track from the ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ soundtrack has just been released. Check out Lady Gaga’s ‘Hold My Hand’.

May 3, 2022
Judith Owen at the Paris Cat in Melbourne on Tuesday 7 June 2016. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Judith Owen Premieres New Song ‘Blossom’s Blues’

Welsh singer/songwriter Judith Owen has new music for 2020. ‘Blossom’s Blues’ is the first taste of an upcoming yet-to-be titled album which sees Judith expanding her sound to the lush jazz and blues of the 1940s and 50s.

May 3, 2022
Paul McCartney in Spokane photo Karen Freedman
Paul McCartney Is Soundchecking In Seattle And This Is What He Is Playing

Paul McCartney is putting on another show at Soundcheck in Seattle ahead of his second Got Back concert tonight.

May 3, 2022
Singer Adam Lambert performs in Queen and Adam Lambert at Rod Laver Arena on Friday 2 March 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Adam Lambert Is Writing A Musical

Adam Lambert is writing a musical. Lambert is in the middle of writing a host of songs for a theatre show and an accompanying concept album.

May 3, 2022
Avril Lavigne. Photo by Ros O'Gorman.
Avril Lavigne Postpones Canadian Dates Due To Covid

Avril Lavigne has postponed three of her Canadian concerts due to a Covid-19 case.

May 3, 2022
Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers. image by Ros O'Gorman.
Red Hot Chili Peppers Pay Tribute To Taylor Hawkins At JazzFest

Red Hot Chili Peppers paid tribute to the late Taylor Hawkins at Jazz Fest in New Orleans on Sunday.

May 3, 2022
Megan Thee Stallion
Megan Thee Stallion Awarded Key To The City of Houston

Megan Thee Stallion has been awarded the key to the city of Houston, Texas.

May 3, 2022
Max Riebl
Countertenor Max Riebl Dies From Cancer At Age 30

Australian Countertenor Max Riebl has died at from cancer at the age of 30.

May 2, 2022
Richard Clapton band early 70s with Red McKelvie in the Middle
One Time Richard Clapton Guitarist Red McKelvie Has Passed Away

Red McKelvie, the New Zealand born guitarist for Richard Clapton’s debut album ‘Prussian Blue’ has died.

May 2, 2022
Ringo Starr and Mal Evans from Peter Jackson Get Back
The Beatles Road Manager Mal Evans Biography To Be Published In 2023

The estate of Mal Evans has teamed with Beatles scholar Kenneth Womack, PhD, to publish the biography of Mal Evans sourced from his diaries, manuscripts and photographs.

May 2, 2022
Danny Bonaduce Takes Leave From Radio Show To Deal With Mystery Illness

Danny Bonaduce, the artist formerly known as Danny Partridge in The Partridge Family, has revealed that he has stood down from his Seattle radio show because of a mystery medical condition.

May 2, 2022
Ric Parnell photo by Anne Tek
Ric Parnell of Spinal Tap and Atomic Rooster Dies Aged 70

Ric Parnell, who played Mick Shrimpton the drummer of Spinal Tap in This Is Spinal Tap, has died at the age of 70.

May 2, 2022
Fleetwood Mac photo by Ros O'Gorman
Christine McVie To Release ‘Songbird (A Solo Collection)’

Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie will release her first best of ‘Songbird (A Solo Collection).

May 2, 2022
Hilltop Hoods photo by Ros O'Gorman
Hilltop Hoods To Play Australia’s Arenas

Hilltop Hoods are about to head out on their biggest ever tour, playing arenas all over Australia.

May 2, 2022
Glenn Frey of Eagles, photo by Ros O'Gorman
Eagles Debut Single ‘Take It Easy’ Turns 50

Eagles first ever record ‘Take It Easy’ came out on 1 May 1972, 50 years ago. The song as written by Glenn Frey and Jackson Browne before either of them found fame. Jackson started to write the song but couldn’t finish it. Frey lived in the same apartment block in Echo Park, California.

May 2, 2022
Florence Welch photo from Frontier Touring
Florence + The Machine Announce Australia and New Zealand Dates for 2023

Florence + The Machine will tour Dance Fever in Australia and New Zealand in March 2023.

May 2, 2022
Craig Porteils
Australian Producer Craig Porteils Loses His Battle With Cancer

Australian producer Craig Porteils has died over the weekend after fighting cancer.

May 2, 2022
Northlane Obsidian
Australian Charts: Northlane ‘Obsidian’ Debuts At No 1

Local metalcore act Northlane see their sixth and independently issued studio album "Obsidian", debut at the top of the Australian Album Charts.

May 1, 2022
Notorious BIG Life After Death
The Notorious B.I.G. Life After Death 25th Anniversary Edition To Be Released

Notorious B.I.G. would have turned 50 this month. He was born 21 May, 1972. His signature album ‘Life After Death’ is about to turn 25 and is getting a long, overdue make-over.

May 1, 2022
Celine Dion - Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Celine Dion Postpones European Tour Due To Ongoing Illness

Celine Dion has been once again forced to postpone her European tour but this time it is because of an ongoing illness she is yet to recover from.

May 1, 2022
Paul McCartney in Spokane photo Karen Freedman
Paul McCartney Opens Got Back Tour In Spokane and Karen Freedman Was There

We Paul McCartney fans knew the Beatle would reference the instantly iconic Get Back documentary in his new tour. Not only has Paul titled his first post-pandemic jaunt ‘Got Back’, he thrilled fans with a ‘duet’ with John Lennon.

May 1, 2022
Naomi Judd photo credit: Derrek Kupish
Naomi Judd Has Died At Age 76

Country music legend and matriarch of the Judd family Naomi has passed away at age 76.

May 1, 2022
Paul McCartney Tug of War
Paul McCartney ‘Tug Of War’ Turns 40

This week marked the fortieth anniversary of the release of Paul McCartney’s ‘Tug of War’ album. The album is filled with nostalgia for me, I was seventeen, and on my first tropical holiday when I purchased it at Tolmies record store in Burleigh Heads.

April 30, 2022
David Bowie by Ros O'Gorman
Ziggy Stardust To Get A 50th Anniversary Reissue As David Bowie ‘Starman’ Turns 50

The now classic David Bowie song ‘Starman’ turned 50 this week. That has sparked a 50th anniversary edition of the album it was from ‘Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars’.

April 29, 2022
Paul McCartney at AAMI Park Melbourne on Tuesday 5 December 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Paul McCartney Kicks Off The Got Back Tour In Spokane #SETLIST

Paul McCartney has resumed touring with the Got Back tour opening in Spokane, Washington.

April 29, 2022
Paul McCartney performs at AAMI Park Melbourne. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Paul McCartney Played A 14 Song Set At Soundcheck For Some Ticket Holders

As part of Paul McCartney’s ticket structure, one of the options is to also watch the sound check.

April 29, 2022