Hip-hop icon Jay-Z is going out on the road for a two month tour of North America that will run right up against Christmas.

SXSW artist submission for showcases opened two weeks ago and already 30 Australian and New Zealand acts have applied to showcase.

Rock God and best selling author Jimmy Barnes will join journalist Matt Condon in conversation at the Byron Writers Festival in August.

Organisers for Spain's Mad Cool festival have released a statement following the death of acrobat Pedro Aunion before a set by Green Day.

Victorian band White Summer have released the first taste of their debut album with the song ‘Zero In Tennis’.

Jon Stevens has released a video for ‘Feel Like Let Go’, the second single from his 10th solo album ‘Starlight’.

Italy’s The Bloody Beetroots have released a rollicking rock song ‘My Name Is Thunder’ with Australia’s Jet.

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong has issued a statement following the death of an acrobat prior to the band’s performance at the Mad Cool Festival in Spain.

Status Quo has announced a new series of "plugged in" shows but admit it won't be the same without Rick Parfitt.

Sydney hard-core band Northlane are going out on the road for another national tour in October.

Rise Against will return to Australia and New Zealand in 2018 for their first shows in three years.

Ed Sheeran remains at No.1 for a fifteenth broken week with his third studio album "÷ (Divide)".

Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee along with added vocals by Justin Bieber are at No.1 for an eighth straight week with their Spanish infused hit "Despacito", becoming Justin's longest run at the top in Australia now.

Spandau Ballet will continue despite lead singer Tony Hadley’s sudden statement that he was leaving the band this week.

Bon Scott was born on this day in 1946. He would have been 71 years old today.

Marilyn Manson’s father Hugh Warner has died.

Paul McCartney performed in Miami on Friday night and the setlist gives Australian fans a glimpse of what to expect in December.

Stubb’s BBQ, the iconic Austin music venue and restaurant, will have to change its name.

Lorde has addressed a comment she made after appearing on Channel 7 Australia’s tabloid TV show Sunrise as beat-up bullshit.

Today is happy 77th birthday for Ringo Starr and he celebrated the day by announcing his new album, Give More Love.

Madonna has publicly thanked everyone who helped to build a new hospital wing named after her adopted daughter Mercy James in the child's native Malawi.

Rare extended mixes of classic Australian pop hits of the 80s have been made available again for the first time in decades on the new Warner compilation ’12 Inch Dance: 80s Australian Pop.

The National Live Music Awards gala event for 2017 is moving from Sydney to Melbourne.

Diesel has been added as a surprise late addition to perform and chat exclusively at the Melbourne Guitar Show in August.

The Verve took the music world by storm when their album Urban Hymns was released on September 29, 1997.

British India have released the first taste of their upcoming sixth album with the song ‘Precious’.

Fans of Green Day gathered outside the stars' Scottish hotel on Tuesday (04Jul17) to serenade the rockers after extreme weather prompted the cancellation of their Glasgow concert.

I last saw Midnight Oil in 1993 unplugged at Ronnie Scott's having been lucky in a radio phone-in. I never thought it would take me 24 years to see them again but here I am with the excitement of youth flowing yet again.

Major new titles coming this week from: HAIM, Violent Femmes (live), Jay-Z and the Spider-Man: Homecoming and War for The Planet of the Apes soundtracks.

Britney Spears is set to have a new cancer care centre named in her honour after helping to raise $1 million (£773,000) to pay for the facility.