Bobby Liebling, one of the co-founders of the death metal band Pentagram, has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison for "abuse/neglect of a vulnerable adult-custodian".

George Michael is on track to get a posthumous number one album on Friday (October 27), 10 months after his sudden death.

The Foo Fighters are doing both makeup dates and extending their Concrete & Gold Tour in the middle of 2018.

Kenny Rogers insists he's all ready for retirement after ticking a Music City Walk of Fame induction off his bucket list.

Country legend Dolly Parton doesn't see the point in splashing her fortune on diamonds when it won't change who she is.

VIMIC, the acclaimed heavy rock band founded by Grammy Award-winning Slipknot co-founder and heavy music luminary Joey Jordison, has signed a global deal with Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) and T-Boy Records, UMe's label partnership with veteran rock manager Andy Gould.

Tame Impala will release a deluxe collectors edition of the ‘Currents’ album in November.

Queensland’s A Festival Called Panama has scored Grizzly Bear as headline act for 2018.

Jackson Browne and Seal lead the second line-up announcement for Bluesfest 2018.

There's a horse race for the fifth position on the fan's ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame between The Eurythmics and Judas Priest.

In early October, Bob Seger postponed nineteen dates of his Runaway Train Tour due to reported back problems.

Justin Timberlake has promised there won't be any nipple flashing when he headlines the 2018 Super Bowl halftime show in February.

It looks like it is open hunting season (as it should be) on the abusive men of the entertainment business.

Former Marilyn Manson lead guitarist Scott Putesky aka Daisy Berkowitz has died at age 49.

On December 8, Motown/UMe will release three historic albums on vinyl from one of the most successful solo artists in Pop/R&B crossover history, Lionel Richie. This mega-platinum album triple-play — 1982's Lionel Richie, 1983's Can't Slow Down, and 1985's Dancing On The Ceiling — sealed the recent Kennedy Center Honoree's legacy as one of the most popular singer/songwriters of the modern era, in the wake of his 1982 departure from the lineup of one of Motown's biggest artists of the Seventies, the Commodores.

George Young, a co-founder for the legendary rock band The Easybeats, Flash & The Pan and co-producer of the early AC/DC albums, has died at age 70.

Grinspoon's Phil Jamieson will be St Jimmy for the Australian production of Green Day's 'American Idiot' musical in Australia in 2018.

The seventh studio album by PInk entitled "Beautiful Trauma" becomes her fifth No.1 album on the ARIA Albums Chart this week (four studios and one Best of), and has sold so much in its first week that it's been certified 2x▲Platinum straight away.

"Rockstar" by Post Malone and 21 Savage retains its ARIA No.1 Singles position for a fourth straight week, also taking out the top spot in the USA and Ireland this week, matching the current position of the track in New Zealand, England, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.

Icehouse will play three more Red Hot Summer shows in April 2018.

Incubus will return to Australia for East Coast dates in March 2018.

Primal Scream will head back to Australia in February.

Ace Frehley was good, real good, surprisingly good.

An Alice Cooper show is more than a rock concert. It's a lesson for younger acts on how it should be done.

Jimmy Barnes was back in his hometown of Adelaide to sing at the funeral of a loved one… the Australia car industry.

Pink power is as big as before. The Pennsylvania popstar has generated 35 concert dates in Australia and New Zealand in one day and has sold over 78,000 copies of her new album ‘Beautiful Trauma’ in its first week.

‘Pillbox’, the silent movie by Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, will screen at the Golden Age Cinema in Sydney October 24 for one-might only.

The Rolling Stones have compiled historic radio recordings from their early days to be released as ‘On Air’ in December.

BBC Radio 2 will broadcast a two part world exclusive documentary featuring a lengthy interview between Kirsty Young and George Michael, which was his last ever interview.

Major new titles coming this week from: Niall Horan, Boyz II Men, Keyshia Cole, Willie Nelson, Trivium, Tegan & Sara, Darius Rucker, Ecca Vandal, Toby Keith, Mondo Rock (GH), 98 Degrees & Cheap Trick (Xmas), Jessie Ware and Metallica (live).