Rapper/actor Common is making plans to take Broadway by storm in a bid to become a member of the elite EGOT club.

Future and Lil Yachty have pulled out of a concert in Charlottesville, Virginia following the violence at a white supremacist rally in the city.

Taylor Swift has left fans with a Blank Space after clearing her social media pages and making her official website go dark.

Madonna has asked a judge to block cameras from videotaping a deposition in her lawsuit over the online auction of her personal items.

Weezer have slipped out a new song ‘Mexican Fender’ as a preview of their upcoming album ‘Pacific Daydream’ (aka The Black album).

LA based Australian electronic artist Hansaa (Vinay Matta) has debuted his new video for ‘Need To Know’.

Isabella Manfredi of The Preatures will front an all-new lineup of Divinyls.

Kram talks all things Easybeats, Glenn Hughes tells the stories of Deep Purple Mk II this week at iHeartRadio music news powered by Noise11.com.

Major new titles coming this week from: Gang of Youths, Everything Everything, Grizzly Bear, A$AP Ferg, Neck Deep, Melanie Dyer, Steven Wilson, The Ocean Party, Chase & Status, and Casey Donovan (EP).

Port Pirie singer songwriter Mane has released the new song ‘What If Love Dies’ ahead of her homecoming Australian shows.

Jeff Duff will do more of his ‘Ziggy – The Songs of David Bowie’ shows in September and November.

Triple J’s Unearthed High winner for 2017 is Perth’s Arno Faraji.

Jack Douglas, the producer of John Lennon’s final sessions and his ‘Double Fantasy’ album, has produced new American act Silverplanes.

Metallica fans worldwide will be able to watch the final Metallica show on the current North American tour.

Skyhooks guitarist Bob ‘Bongo’ Starkie has put his gold record for Best of Skyhooks up for auction on eBay.

The Shins, Future Islands and Client Liaison lead the lineup for the Fairgrounds Festival at Berry in December.

Lady Gaga and John Legend are leading the celebrity outcry after Donald Trump stunned the media by explaining his reasons for delaying a response to the violence that broke out at a white supremacy rally at the weekend.

Beyond The Valley 2017 has enticed Matt Corby back to work and also added an A-list line-up with Meg Mac, The Presets and Cut Copy.

The Temper Trap will return home to Australia in November with two shows scheduled for Sydney and Melbourne.

Australian radio network Triple J will release a US edition of the popular Like A Version album series.

Lionel Richie is considering joining a boycott of the White House reception for the Kennedy Center Honors because he is "not really happy" about Fake President Donald Trump's "controversies".

Tom Stell, aka Golden Features, is the first act announced for Field Day 2018.

Walter Trout’s medical traumas have been well publicized over the last few years – his liver failure and eventual transplant and his own musical diary of the darkest and lightest points of it all in his last album Battle Scars – one of the strongest and most emotive albums he has ever released.

Gibson Brands has announced it has appointed guitar superstar Slash as Global Brand Ambassador, the first such designation in the company's history.

Melbourne’s Creamfield’s has added Dutch duo Showtek to it's 2017 line-up.

NZ's Marlon Williams has released a new song 'Vampire Again'.

Denver DJ David Mueller has been found guilty of groping Taylor Swift and must now pay the pop star $1 in damages.

The Marysville community will welcome its third Jazz and Blues festival in October.

Music icon Prince has been posthumously honoured with his own custom shade of purple by officials at the Pantone Color Institute.

Thirty Seconds to Mars have teased a sampler for their new song ‘Walk On Water’, the first taste of their first album since 2013.