British actor Bill Nighy is the star of ‘Free’, the new video from Florence + The Machine.

Country Music legend Connie Smith has been awarded a star on the Nashville Walk of Fame. Noise11’s Nick Kontonicolas says he is privileged to be counted as a friend of Connie and her husband Marty Stuart.

Jimmy Barnes will tour his classic soul covers album ‘Soul Deep’ to mark the 30th anniversary of the release.

Amy Sheppard has stepped away from her ‘little bit rock and roll’ band Sheppard to go a little bit country with her first solo song ‘Nothing But Wild’.

The original Blue, Red, Yellow and Purple Wiggles, Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page and Jeff Fatt will receive the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music at the APRA Music Awards on Tuesday 3 May at Melbourne Town Hall.

Re Styles of The Tubes passed away on Easter Sunday. She was 72.

Duran Duran have announced two warm-up shows at the O2 Academy Leicester on May 21 and 22.

Hot Chip have announced a new album. Hot Chip - which consists of Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard, Al Doyle, Owen Clarke, and Felix Martin - were originally formed in 2000 and released their last album in 2019 but are set to return to the music scene with 'Freakout/Release', due for release later this year.

Sony Music Entertainment and Trafalgar Releasing today announced the premiere of GEORGE MICHAEL FREEDOM UNCUT, a deeply autobiographical feature documentary narrated by the late Grammy® Award winner. GEORGE MICHAEL FREEDOM UNCUT will be released as a global cinema event on Wednesday, June 22nd.

John Lennon’s assassin C***** was also infatuated with Todd Rundgren.

British soul singer Craig David sees perseverance and determination as the biggest asset contributing to his success.

The Doors’ co-founder and drummer John Densmore has commented on the classic Doors album ‘LA Woman’ 51 years after its release.

It is coming up to 40 years since the release of The Alan Parsons Project’s sixth album ‘Eye In The Sky’.

Yet another Australian tour has been sidelines. Stella Donnelly has had to postpone her Sydney and Wollongong shows this week after testing positive to Covid-19.

Harry Styles will tour stadiums in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 with Wet Leg as the opening act.

The Stormzy Australian tour of 2020 has finally been rescheduled for November and December 2022.

Liam Gallagher is “glad” to be launching a shoe line with Adidas Spezial.

Lorde is “so, so sorry” to have postponed dates on her ‘Solar Power’ tour.

Snoop Dogg has removed the Death Row catalogue from streaming platforms because they "don't pay".

Embrace is releasing their eight studio album. Embrace will drop their latest record 'How to Be a Person Like Other People' - the follow up to 2018’s ‘Love Is A Basic Need’ - on 26 August, which is about the “journey” of being shown “how to feel”.

Midnight Oil’s Canberra show at Stage 88 in Commonwealth Park has been stopped due to Canberra’s severe weather conditions.

The Beatles ‘Get Back’ documentary ‘Get Back’ by Peter Jackson is officially canned … at least for now.

British indie band Wet Leg have put real music back to number one on both the English and Australia album charts this week. Yes, an actual rock record is at number one.

Sheryl Crow has released a new version of the Rolling Stones ‘Live With Me’ with Mick Jagger guesting on harmonica.

Red Hot Summer is back for the next two weekends with Gold Coast this Saturday and Bribie Island the following Saturday 30 April.

Jon Batiste is set to appear in the upcoming musical adaptation of The Color Purple.

The remaining dates on the Crowded House Dreamers Are Waiting Tour have been postponed after Neil Finn tested positive to Covid on Monday and is now isolating for seven days.

The Ten Tenors will head out of their The Highway Men tour from June 2022 with a stack of shows paying tribute to the music of Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Charlie Daniels and Keith Urban.

Wu-Tang Clan album Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) has been archived in the U.S. Library of Congress.

The Official Chart: First Look offers a first glance of the Top 20 ahead of Friday’s Official Singles Chart Top 100. The chart is based on preliminary sales and early streaming reports.