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Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World Add Download Sideshows In Australia

Emo legends Jimmy Eat World have announced headline shows in Brisbane, Adelaide and Fremantle alongside their appearance at the Download Festival.

December 4, 2019
Peking Duk DJ Duk
Peking Duk Partner With Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation For Dukcember

Aussie electro duo Peking Duk have partnered with the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation to celebrate the first anniversary of their children's book DJ Duks.

December 4, 2019
Greg Dulli (pic by Maciek Jasik)
Greg Dulli of Afghan Whigs To Release Second Solo Album

Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli has revealed he has been working on a solo album due to hit your ears in February.

December 4, 2019
Gipsy Kings
Gipsy Kings, Dweezil Zappa and Guy Sebastian Added To Bluesfest 2020

Bluesfest has added 10 more acts including Gipsy Kings, Guy Sebastian and Dweezil Zappa for the 2020 music festival.

December 4, 2019
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish Comes Out On Top After Not Knowing Van Halen

Van Halen bassist Wolfgang Van Halen has tweeted support for seventeen-year-old pop star Billie Eilish for not knowing the classic rock band.

December 3, 2019
Questlove
Questlove To Direct ‘Black Woodstock’ About The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival

Questlove is directing a documentary called Black Woodstock on the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival.

December 3, 2019
Jill Scott
Jill Scott To Celebrate 20th Anniversary of ‘Who Is Jill Scott?’

Legendary R&B singer Jill Scott is heading out on the road to celebrate twenty years of her game-changing album Who Is Jill Scott?.

December 3, 2019
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots Announce New Music

Stone Temple Pilots will release new music in 2020 with their first acoustic album, Perdida.

December 3, 2019
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette Announces New Album, 25th Anniversary ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Tour (With Dates)

Canadian superstar Alanis Morissette has announced a huge tour through the US to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her seminal album Jagged Little Pill.

December 3, 2019
Mental As Anything Concert
R.I.P. Andrew ‘Greedy’ Smith of Mental As Anything (1956-2019)

Mental As Anything co-founder Andrew ‘Greedy’ Smith has passed away after suffering a heart attack yesterday (2 December) aged 63.

December 3, 2019
AWOLNATION
AWOLNATION Releases ‘California Halo Blue’ About the California Bushfires

Los Angeles based indie band AWOLNATION have released the song California Halo Blue inspired by the devastating California bushfires of 2018.

December 2, 2019
Kadavar
German Riff-Lords Kadavar Bring The Rock To Australia and New Zealand

No points for guessing the influences of Kadavar here. Fans of Black Sabbath and Kyuss might want to pay attention because the Berlin-based rockers are heading to Australia and New Zealand.

December 2, 2019
Elton John, Photo: Ros O'Gorman
Elton John Let’s “Moron” Security Have It In Perth

Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour only made it to night two before the superstar let loose at "moron" security guards removing a woman from the audience..

December 2, 2019
Deftones
Official Download Festival Sideshows Announced

Metal fans in Brisbane and Adelaide, start exercising your horn-throwing muscles because the Download Festival is throwing out some headline shows for you!

December 2, 2019
Liam Gallagher
Liam Gallagher Announces Australian Supports

Former Oasis front man Liam Gallagher has announced a bunch of acts who will warm up audiences around the country for him.

December 2, 2019
Slayer photo by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo
Slayer’s Final Setlist

Slayer played their final show in Los Angeles on Saturday November 30 and they won’t be back touring.

December 2, 2019
Stuart Fraser and daughter Liv. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Music Community Mourn the Passing of Stuart Fraser

The Australian music industry is mourning the passing of Noiseworks and John Farnham Band guitarist Stuart Fraser who died on Saturday (November 30, 2019) after a three-year battle with lung cancer.

December 2, 2019
Ashley Roberts Pussycat Dolls, music news, noise11.com
Reunited Pussycat Dolls To Play Australia’s So Pop Festival

Moments after announcing their reformation today, Pussycat Dolls were announced as headliner for the So Pop Festival in Australia and New Zealand in 2020.

December 2, 2019
Tracy Morgan, Noise11, Photo
Tracy Morgan will tour Australia and New Zealand in 2020

Tracy Morgan will is heading back to Australia and New Zealand in 2020.

December 2, 2019
Tom Araya of Slayer at Download Melbourne 2019 photo by Mary Boukouvalas
Unlike Motley Crue, Slayer Say They Are Through For Good

Slayer - comprised of Kerry King, Tom Araya, Paul Bostaph, and Gary Holt - are currently touring the US on the final dates of their farewell tour, and their manager Rick Sales has said he’s “not sensing” any kind of reunion for them in the future.

December 1, 2019
Guitarist Stuart Fraser of Noiseworks performs as part of the Red Hot Summer tour in Mornington at the Mornington Racecourse on 23 January 2016. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Stuart Fraser of Noiseworks and John Farnham Band Has Passed Away

Australian guitarist Stuart Fraser has passed away. Stuart, a founding member of Noiseworks and longtime guitarist for the John Farnham band, announced he had lung cancer in 2017 after being diagnosed the previous year.

December 1, 2019
Slipknot. Photo by Ros O'Gorman.
Slipknot and Evanescence Forced To Cancel Knotfest Show

Slipknot and Evanescence had to pull the plug on their sets at Mexicos Knotfest Meets Forcefest event on Saturday (30Nov19) due to a broken stage barricade.

December 1, 2019
Queen and Adam Lambert
Brian May Thanks Adam Lambert For Keeping Queen Going

Brian May has heaped praise on the 'American Idol' star - who has joined Brian, 71, and drummer Roger Taylor, 69, and fronted the band live since 2011 - as he shared a clip of the 37-year-old singer belting out 'Blue Suede Shoes' after stumbling on the video through a fan page.

December 1, 2019
Coldplay Everyday Life
UK Charts: Coldplay Land Number One Album Ahead of Robbie Williams

Congratulations to Coldplay, who land straight in at Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart with Everyday Life, fending off competition from Robbie Williams’s new festive collection The Christmas Present.

December 1, 2019
Coldplay Everyday Life
Australian Charts: Coldplay ‘Everyday Life’ Is The No 1 Album

Coldplay score their sixth No.1 album in Australia with their eighth studio album, a 2CD set of songs called "Everyday Life".

December 1, 2019
Tones and I
Australian Charts: Its 18 Weeks At No 1 for Tones and I

Four times ARIA Awards winner this past week was Tones and I, who again continues her reign at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart this week with her track "Dance Monkey", an unprecedented 18 weeks at No.1 now.

December 1, 2019
Kid Rock performs at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne on 7 December 2013. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Kid Rock Tries To Back-Peddle After Foul-Mouthed Oprah Rant

Kid Rock developed his disdain for U.S. TV mogul Oprah Winfrey "years ago" after abandoning an attempt to appear on her popular talk show.

December 1, 2019
Shawn Mendes
Shawn Mendes Cancels Gigs Because of Laryngitis

Shawn Mendes was forced to cancel his gig in Brazil on Saturday after contracting laryngitis.

December 1, 2019
Keith Haring - A Pile of Crowns, for Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1988
Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat Works Appear In Melbourne

The works of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat - two of the most influential artists of late 20th century America - have arrived in Melbourne for a world-first exhibit.

November 29, 2019
Ngaiire
Ngaiire Announces Australian Tour

Ngaiire, one of Australia's most noteworthy neo-soul artists, is set to return to the stage in February and March next year for a run of festival shows.

November 29, 2019