American rockers the Butthole Surfers released their eight album, Weird Revolution, in 2001 and, even though they have occasionally played shows over the years, they have been on an unofficial hiatus.

Shania Twain has shed light on her experiences with dominating men in the industry in the wake of the sexual abuse allegations lodged against Harvey Weinstein.

Elton John has announced the end of "The Million Dollar Piano," his second critically-acclaimed Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. The final fourteen shows will occur in the Spring of 2018 with dates scheduled April 28 to May 19, 2018. Tickets go on sale Sunday, Oct. 22 at 10 AM PT.

Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductee and longtime keyboardist and rhythm guitarist in Journey, Jonathan Cain, has released his first Christmas album, Unsung Noel, on CD, as a double audiophile vinyl record and at digital retailers globally via Identity Records with The Fuel Music distribution.

Bluesfest has announced its first round of sideshows for Robert Plant, New Power Generation, Morcheeba and Gov’t Mule.

Iain Shedden, the music writer for The Australian and one time member of The Saints, has died at the age of 60.

The Whitlams will celebrate their 25th anniversary with dates around Australia in May 2018.

Grouplove will return to Australia for shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in February.

2018 will be the year of Mondo Rock. The iconic Australian band have a big year planned with the re-release of their six studio albums, a deluxe 2-disc ‘Complete Anthology’ on the way and an Australian tour.

The native cocktails, one of the big bonuses of the first A Weekend In The Gardens shows, will return with all-new recipes for season two.

The Triple J compilation "Like a Version Volume 13" becomes the fifth of the radio stations collections to hit No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart.

Post Malone and 21 Savage stay atop the ARIA Singles Chart for a third straight week with their stream-heavy track "Rockstar", becoming the third longest running No.1 for the year, plus it picks up a Gold (●) in sales too.

Lady Gaga has rescheduled her cancelled European tour dates, kicking off in Barcelona on 14 January (18).

Red Hot Summer is heading to Sydney’s Cockatoo Island in February with John Farnham headlining a rock solid line-up featuring Daryl Braithwaite, Baby Animals, The Black Sorrows and 1927.

Linkin Park and the family of Chester Bennington has released the Carpool Karaoke episode filmed just six days for the death of Bennington.

Eddie Vedder was given the Family Guy treatment last week in a hilarious piss-take ‘Vedder Call Saul’.

David Crosby has covered a 41 year old song ‘Amelia’ by his friend Joni Mitchell on this new album ‘Sky Trails’.

Evanescence have gone into big band mode for their fourth album ‘Synthesis’. They have recruited an orchestra to rework their early work.

Jimmy Barnes will head back out of the road with more stories and songs for the second edition of ‘Working Class Man: An Evening Of Stories & Songs’.

Former Oasis signer Liam Gallagher has gone straight to number 1 with his first solo album.

Following a sold-out summer arena tour highlighted by their triumphant UK return in front of 65,000-plus fans as special guests of The Killers during British Summer Time Festival at Hyde Park, Tears For Fears, Roland Orzabal [vocals, guitar, keyboards] and Curt Smith [vocals, bass, keyboards], close out 2017 with the release of their first career-spanning Greatest Hits album, Rule The World. The collection arrives everywhere November 10, 2017.

Global superstar Dolly Parton, whose first children’s album, I Believe In You, released yesterday (October 13) on Dolly Records/RCA Nashville, could have been anywhere on the day her album releaseed, but she wanted to be in Nashville with kids and their families at Monroe Carell Jr. Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital.

TMZ is usually the source that breaks news almost as it is happening. This time Melissa Etheridge and Todd Rundgren are the bad guys.

Bob Seger will release his eighteenth studio album, I Knew You When, on November 17 via Capitol Records and he is dedicating the record to Glenn Frey.

Buckethead, aka Brian Carroll, has revealed that he is suffering from a serious heart condition.

Major new titles coming this week from: Pink, 21 Savage, Dolly Parton, Scouting for Girls (GH), Robert Plant, Gucci Mane, Beck, St, Vincent and Marc E. Bassy.

Nominees for The Age Music Victoria Awards have been revealed with A.B. Original up for Best Album, Band, Song and Live Act.

Jack Jones and Rick Price have a dozen major hit songs between them. They recently covered another dozen hit songs that influenced their careers for the album ‘California Dreaming’.

Green Day have found God, or just we say God found them in March on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. They have also hooked up with country star Miranda Lambert.

Bruno Mars looks set for success at the American Music Awards after bagging eight nominations on Thursday.