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.

London’s The xx will return to Australia for shows in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney in January, 2018.

Nile Rodgers has never missed a concert in his life until Sunday (August 13) night.

Just as Steve Hackett leaves Australia a few Genesis production is coming to town.

There was not much hope that the Eagles would play together again after the death of Glenn Frey in January of 2016 but the Classic East and West Festivals and the addition of Vince Gill and Frey's son, Devon, have added new life to the band.

Madame Tussauds, the world-renowned wax attraction, opened its latest location in Nashville in April, but they officially revealed their new Tim McGraw and Faith Hill wax figures at Bridgestone Arena August 5th prior to the sold-out Soul2Soul show.

Sydney’s The Dead Love has a new song ‘Sugarcoat’.

Meg Mac will headline Port Macquarie’s Festival of the Sun in December.

Music sales figures for anything not called Sheeran were atrocious in Australia last week but the true picture was even uglier when you take away the mask.