Vika and Linda Bull will be spending New Years Eve at MEMO Music Hall after they wrap up their current tour with Paul Kelly. Kelly has one more show in Brisbane 21 December.

Alex Smith of Moving Pictures is finishing off his very first solo album, due in 2019, and the first taste of the album is ‘Slow Train’.

Billy Elliot The Musical will return to Australia in 2019.

The Beasts, Tex Perkins new incarnation of The Beasts of Bourbon, will have Dallas Crane, The Johnnys and The Painkillers opening their 2019 shows.

Warner Music Australia’s new signing is Melbourne act JXN (pronounced Jackson). JXN is Jackson Brazier.

Techno event PURE will head to Adelaide in 2019.

With the Teenage Fanclub Australian and New Zealand tour about to kick off in February the special guest openers have been announced.

Boom Crash Opera and Taxiride, two of Australia’s most successful bands of the 80s and 90s, have announced their Crazy Ride 2019 tour.

Eric Clapton has released the must-hear Christmas album of 2018 he calls ‘Happy Xmas’.

Gil Matthews’ Aztec Records has released a piece of Australian rock history with ‘Lobby’s Last… Summer Jam’ from Australian guitar legend, the late Lobby Loyde.

James Reyne may have never cracked America but he certainly cracked Boston and Miami once.

Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney had somewhat of a Beatles reunion on Sunday night when Sir Ringo joined Sir Paul at Paul’s O2 Arena show.

Juan De Marcos, the founder of the Buena Vista Social Club and now fronting Afro Cuban All Stars, says that the US-Cuba relationship fixed by Obama has been undone by Trump but doesn’t see Trump surviving the next election.

Bohemian Rhapsody has set a new box office record as the highest-grossing music biopic in global history after rocking past the $600 million (£477 million) mark.

Rapper Pitbull is making the expansion of his educational endeavours his New Year's resolution, pledging to teach 20,000 students in his schools by the close of 2019.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to control Rap music in Russia because he is worried about “the degradation of a nation”.

Prosecutors in Spain have filed tax evasion charges against pop superstar Shakira.

Paul McCartney's London home was raided by thieves days before his recent homecoming gig in Liverpool, England.

The R. Kelly Australian tour announcement just got weirder with the disgraced R&B star calling out the announcement with a “Fake Tour Alert”.

The year of 2018 has been topped and tailed by long running soundtracks, "A Star is Born" now racks up its eighth week at the top, matching the eight-week-stay achieved by "The Greatest Showman" in January and February.

It's a fifth week at the summit of the ARIA Singles Chart for the Ariana Grande track "thank u, next", which also lands a fifth week at the top in New Zealand and Canada, a sixth week in both Ireland and England and it returns for a fourth week at No.1 in America.

Accused sexual predator R. Kelly is scheduled to tour Australia in 2019 but it is unclear if he has been granted a Visa.

Melbourne’s The Production Company will stage the first Australian production of David Bowie’s musical ‘Lazarus’ in 2019.

The next round of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers has been revealed with The Cure, Radiohead and Def Leppard to be inducted alongside Stevie Nicks and Janet Jackson, Roxy Music and The Zombies.

Major new titles coming this week from: Bruce Springsteen, Evanescence (live), Mitchell Tenpenny, Kodak Black, Zayn, Alan Walker, XXXTentacion, Wild Summer 2019 compilation and the soundtrack for Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse.

Ariana Grande and her brother Frankie Grande have recorded a version of ‘Seasons of Love’ for the Rent Live TV special.

Tommy Lee and his son Brandon have repaired their relationship following a very public bust-up earlier this year (18).

Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson have invited Sean Lennon to join them on U.S. TV for a performance of his dad's holiday peace anthem Happy Xmas (War Is Over).

Kanye West has fired up his feud with rap rival Drake after learning the Canadian star had asked to use a sample of his 2009 song Say What's Real.

Toto legend Steve Lukather has a list with dozens of credits including Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Paul McCartney, Steely Dan but he says he has only walked out of a session once and it was for Richard Simmons.