Former U.S. President Barack Obama has honoured Nipsey Hussle in a letter read out at the slain rapper's Los Angeles memorial.

The Splendour in the Grass sideshows have been announced.

Rapper Stormzy has pulled out of a festival gig in Austria after a member of his management team was roughed up by event security officials.

A new song by Avicii featuring singer Aloe Blacc has been released almost a year after the DJ's death.

Soul star Adele has made a date with her friend to tune into Beyonce's highly-anticipated Coachella concert film on Netflix after freaking out at the news.

JAY-Z paid a touching tribute to Nipsey Hussle in the slain rapper's Order of Service, handed out at his marathon Celebration of Life event in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Dragon is opening season 3 of Red Hot Summer, John Farnham is closing. Together they have a song in common … Age of Reason.

Eric Clapton fans can join in for a 74th birthday celebration at Memo Music Hall in St Kilda this Saturday.

American touring juggernaut AEG Presents has signed a joint venture with Australia’s largest independent touring company Frontier Touring to bring come of the biggest names in the world down under.

Melbourne band Amyl & The Sniffers were the buzz band of SXSW 2019. In May they will release their debut album.

Kasey Chambers will release an expanded edition of her breakthrough debut ‘The Captain’ on 17 May, 2019, exactly 20 years to the day the original album was released.

ARIA will publish its first Vinyls Albums Chart this Saturday, April 13, coinciding with Record Store Day.

Irish folk singer will tour Australia with Mark Vincent in November.

John Farnham has been playing sold-out Red Hot Summer shows across New South Wales and South Australia and will complete the tour with three more Queensland shows this month.

Australian rock legend Stephen Cummings will be performing songs from 20th solo album ‘Prisoner of Love’ and selections from his 4-disc career spanning Anthology at Memo Music Hall St Kilda on Friday.

The Seekers are Pop Stars again this week with five albums gracing the iTunes chart.

Melbourne guitarist Harts will perform the music of Jimi Hendrix at the Melbourne Recital Centre in May.

Rick Price will present his Rarities tour in May but never fear, those rarities aren’t that rare.

Donald Fagen as the sole remaining member of Steely Dan will perform five Steely Dan / solo albums over five nights in Boston in October.

Sharon Osbourne fought back tears as she opened up about the accident that forced her husband Ozzy to cancel his 2019 No More Tours II trek last week.

Brooklyn singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys has announced he will be ceasing to tour after his next set of dates but that doesn’t mean he will stop writing and recording.

The Punch Brothers, mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny, and violinist Gabe Witcher, will tour Australia in July.

Taylor Swift has donated $113,000 (£86,000) to a Tennessee project fighting a series of anti-LGBTQ bills in the state.

Ariana Grande is planning to launch a new perfume and beauty line named after her hit album Thank U, Next.

Fans and activists are urging Madonna to rethink her plans to perform at next month's Eurovision Song Contest in Israel - and boycott the event.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis will upsize their backing band from the Bad Seeds to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra when they perform together as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival.

Rough Trade Records founder Geoff Travis has started a new label River Lea. The label is all about targeting people who prefer quality over quantity and would rather than listen to a physical disc than stream.

The story of Memphis musician Van Duren is a story next to no-one knows. That is because Van Duren never became famous. Then along came two Sydney music people, Greg Carey (manager of The Rubens) and musician Wade Jackson who set up to travel half a planet away to tell this story.

The remaining dates for the Fleetwood Mac North American tour have been postponed after Stevie Nicks came down with the flu.

Courtney Barnett’s new song is ‘Everybody Here Hates You’.