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Rick Astley photo by Ros O'Gorman
Rick Astley’s Debut Album ‘Whenever You Need Somebody’ Gets a Make-Over

Rick Astley’s first album ‘Whenever You Need Somebody’ has been put on the rack and stretched out to two CDs.

March 23, 2022
Jennifer Loveless
Melbourne’s Love Project Launches A New Event Called ‘Autumn’

Melbourne’s Love Project will debut their 2022 event Autumn this weekend.

March 23, 2022
Hillsong
Disgraced Hillsong Company Founder Brian Houston Steps Down As Head Of The Business

Brian Houston, the CEO of Hillsong, the business that sells Religion as a product, has been stood down after an internal misconduct investigation.

March 23, 2022
Ben Lee
Ben Lee Seems To Have Gotten Himself Into A Pickle Over Murray Cook Statement

Ben Lee has come under fire from Wiggles fans after telling a bizarre story about an animal hit by a car in Latvia that became frozen on the bumper of a vehicle which, I take it, was removed and made its way to Australia.

March 23, 2022
The Village People with Victor Willis in Melbourne on Tuesday 12 December 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Village People’s Victor Willis Wants Trevor Noah To Resign As Grammy Host

Village People co-founder Victor Willis thinks comedian Trevor Noah should step down as host of the 2022 Grammy Awards because of his comments about Kanye West.

March 23, 2022
Soft Cell and Pet Shop Boys
Soft Cell And Pet Shop Boys Team Up For ‘Purple Zone’ Check Out The Video Here

Soft Cell and Pet Shop Boys have teamed up for their first ever song together. ‘Purple Zone’ even has a video.

March 23, 2022
Charli XCX Crash
UK Charts: Charli XCX On Track For Her First UK No 1 Album

Charli XCX could Crash (quite literally) into her first-ever UK Number 1 album this week.

March 23, 2022
Beyonce photo by Ros OGorman
Beyonce In Talks For An Oscars Performance

Beyoncé is reportedly in talks with Oscars producers to perform at the event.

March 23, 2022
Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam photo by Ros O'Gorman
Pearl Jam Are Working On Their Next Album With Justin Bieber’s Producer

Pearl Jam have started work on a new album alongside Justin Bieber's producer Andrew Watt.

March 23, 2022
Ed Sheeran photo by Ros O'Gorman
Ed Sheeran Learned Spanish For Latino Duet With J Balvin

Ed Sheeran learned Spanish for a batch of new songs with Latin superstar J Balvin.

March 23, 2022
Dave Grohl Foo Fighters at Etihad Stadium on Tuesday 30 January 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Dave Grohl To Release Metal Album By Fictitious Dream Widow This Week

Dave Grohl is releasing a metal record as the fictional band Dream Widow.

March 22, 2022
The Hard-Ons with Tim Rogers photo by Michelle Young of Lantern Studio
Covid Derails The Hard-Ons

The Hard-Ons first national tour with Tim Rogers on vocals has stalled with one of the band members testing positive to Covid.

March 22, 2022
Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss Has Recorded Some Songs With Def Leppard

Def Leppard’s next album ‘Diamond Star Halos’ has an interesting guest, Bluegrass-Country singer Alison Krauss in on two tracks on the Def Leppard album.

March 22, 2022
The Who Roger Daltrey. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
The Who To Release First Two Albums As Half-Speed Masters

The first two albums by The Who, ‘My Generation’ (1965) and ‘A Quick One’ (1966) will be reissued as Half-Speed Masters in May.

March 22, 2022
Helen Reddy Melbourne 2nd April 2014. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Restore The Original Helen Reddy ‘I Am Woman’ Video

The Australian Film and Sound Archive in Canberra has restored the original video for ‘I Am Woman’ by Helen Reddy as part of Woman’s History Month.

March 22, 2022
Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman Teams Up With Trent Reznor For ‘Native Intelligence’

Danny Elfman has reconstructed his ‘Big Mess’ track ‘Native Intelligence’ with help from Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails.

March 22, 2022
Talas
Billy Sheehan Premieres New Talas To Honour The Late Phil Naro

Billy Sheehan’s name has been associated with David Lee Roth, Steve Vai and Mr Big. He has had four solo albums as well as his full-time band Talas.

March 22, 2022
Rivers Cuomo and Scott Shriver Weezer at Etihad Stadium on Tuesday 30 January 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Weezer To Release Four Seasonal EPs Starting With Spring

Weezer will release four E.P.’s across four seasons with the first starting now for the North American springtime.

March 22, 2022
Daddy Yankee Facebook photo
Daddy Yankee Announces His Retirement from Music

Daddy Yankee is retiring from music. Daddy Yankee says he will hang up his microphone after three decades and eight studio albums following the release of his final tour and LP, 'Legendaddy', on March 24.

March 22, 2022
Dolly Parton photo by Ros O'Gorman
Dolly Parton To Star In Film Adaptation of Run Rose Run

Dolly Parton is to headline a film adaptation of Run, Rose, Run.

March 22, 2022
Dave Gleeson performing with The Angels at Red Hot Summer photo by The Angels
Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer Draws Record Crowd In Ballarat

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer Festival was Australia’s biggest live music event over the weekend pulling a crowd of over 15,000 in Ballarat on Saturday (19 March 2022).

March 21, 2022
An American in Paris with Ashleigh Rubenach and Robbie Fairchild photo by Darren Thomas
‘An American In Paris’ Brings Broadway To The Melbourne Stage

An American In Paris at The State Theatre in Melbourne has bought a touch of Broadway to Australia. The stars of the show, Robert Fairchild as Jerry Mulligan and Leanne Cope as Lise Dassin, were the stars of the original Broadway production in 2015.

March 21, 2022
Muse play Rod Laver Arena 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Matt Bellamy On Muse New Music

Muse frontman Matt Bellamy joins Zane Lowe live in the studio on Apple Music 1 to discuss the band’s new song “Compliance” and forthcoming album ‘Will of the People'.

March 21, 2022
Lizzo photo by Jora Frantzis supplied by Warner Music
Lizzo Settles Writing Row

Lizzo has reached a settlement over the songwriting credits for 'Truth Hurts'.

March 21, 2022
Beck, Harvest Festival 2012: Photo Ros O'Gorman
Beck Is Reworking His Old Hits

Beck is re-recording some of his old hits.

March 21, 2022
Kanye West. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Kanye West Banned From The Grammy Awards

Kanye West has been barred from performing at the 2022 Grammy Awards due to "concerning online behaviour".

March 21, 2022
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Royal Blood Premiere New Song ‘Honeybrains’

Royal Blood have released the new song 'Honeybrains', ahead of their UK arena tour.

March 20, 2022
Arcade Fire photo by Ros O'Gorman
Will Butler Quits Arcade Fire

Will Butler has quit Arcade Fire.Butler has announced he has decided to end his 18-year tenure with the Canadian indie rock band - completed by his brother Win and his wife Regine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara - for no particular reason other than he feels their direction has "changed" somewhat.

March 20, 2022
The Wiggles Rewiggled
Australian Albums: The Wiggles Are Number One

The Wiggles land their first No.1 Album in Australia this week as their double album compilation and covers album "ReWiggled" debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart.

March 20, 2022
Timothy B Schmit of Eagles photo by Ros O'Gorman
Timothy B. Schmit Shares New Song ‘Simple Man’ Video

Timothy B. Schmit has previewed his next solo album ‘Day By Day’ with the song ‘Simple Man’.

March 20, 2022