When the Helpmann Awards are handed out in Melbourne for the very first time on 15 July there will be a very special world first as part of the show, the cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will perform a montage from the show.

Bob Gaudio of the Four Seasons and the man behind the show about his band ‘Jersey Boys’ is making another Broadway musical based on the life of Neil Diamond.

Tex Perkins will Hitch to the Sticks just after he completes his 2019 season on The Man In Black – The Songs and Story of Johnny Cash’.

Radiohead’s Thom York has released his third solo album ‘ANIMA’ and has previewed the album with a video for the track ‘Not The News’.

Spiderbait will release a box set of their 7 inch singles in November and to get it you will need to buy it at their show.

Shrek The Musical stars have been revealed. Ben Mingay will star as Shrek, Lucy Durack is Princess Fiona and Marcia Hines will join the Sydney cast as the Dragon.

Tina Turner considers her marriage to Edwin Bach to be her first - despite having famously been married to musical partner Ike Turner through the '60s and '70s.

Katy Perry has backed her one-time enemy Taylor Swift in a feud with entrepreneur Scooter Braun over ownership of her back catalogue.

Kylie Minogue is racing towards a seventh UK Number 1 with her brand-new album Step Back In Time – The Definitive Collection.

Taylor Swift's ME! collaborator Brendon Urie has taken his pal's side in her war of words with music mogul Scooter Braun, calling him "toxic".

Ariana Grande has encouraged Taylor Swift to "stay strong" in her feud with Scooter Braun following her online rant about the music mogul's new ownership of her old masters.

Diana Ross fears she may have lost the only film footage of her star-studded 75th birthday extravaganza after misplacing her hard drive.

Pop veteran Rick Springfield has scrapped plans to stage his annual music festival in the Dominican Republic this year (19) following the growing number of tourist deaths in the country.

Tex Perkins has with the Johnny Cash story in ‘The Man In Black – The Songs and Story of Johnny Cash’ earned a Helpmann Award and played to sell-out shows all over Australia.

Phil Tripp, the SXSW Senior Business Develop Manager for Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii, will host Meet N Greet info nights for the 2020 event mid-July in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney.

Taylor Swift has initiated a rift with Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande manager Scooter Braun that could create waves with her father Scott Swift.

Dave Leslie of Baby Animals will host a workshop at the Melbourne Guitar Show in August.

Break out the Custard, David McCormack is a Logie winner. The Custard frontman is the voice of bandit, Bluey’s dad in the Brisbane made kids animated series.

Superjesus will regroup for shows in September and they will kick it off with the release of the Sumo 20 Double Live album.

Possum Records founder Philip Israel has a new, digital only label Pi Records and his first release is the incredibly catchy cover of ‘Something Stupid’ by Caballero Reynaldo.

Taxiride will play their acoustic and story telling shows in New South Wales in August and September.

Melbourne’s The Teskey Brothers have been making waves in the USA in the past week. There shows are now registering on Pollstar’s Live 75 chart.

Madonna will become a radio host next week with the debut of her own exclusive SiriusXM channel.

Vampire Weekend musician Ezra Koenig believes the decline in popularity of guitar music has taken the pressure off fronting a rock band.

Lewis Capaldi bounces back to Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart with is debut collection Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent.

Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber extend their reign at Number 1 with I Don’t Care to a seventh consecutive week on this week’s Official Singles Chart.

Kylie Minogue will take to the Glastonbury stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset, South West England, for the legends slot on Sunday afternoon (30.06.19) - 14 years after she had to pull out of her headline slot to have treatment for breast cancer - and although she's going to try and "contain herself" before her performance, she predicts that she'll "let loose" after the show.

Music producer David Foster and singer/actress Katharine McPhee have become husband and wife.

Dance hitmaker Kygo has brought Whitney Houston back from the dead to revamp her rare decades-old cover of Steve Winwood classic Higher Love.

For the sixth week this year the Billie Eilish debut album "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" is the No.1 selling album in Australia, attaining an overall fifth run at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart.