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James Reyne To Kick Off 40 Years Of ‘Crawl File’ This Weekend

Former Australian Crawl frontman James Reyne will begin 2024 live in Torquay, Victoria this Sunday marking 40 years since the first Australian Crawl best of ‘Crawl File’.

January 11, 2024
J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr, photo by Ros O'Gorman
Dinosaur Jr Add Melbourne Show

Dinosaur Jr will play a standalone headline show in Melbourne the night before the Tentpole festival.

January 11, 2024
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Legendary Canadian Guitarist Rik Emmett To Release Early 90s Best Of

Former Triumph guitarist Rik Emmett has curated a Best Of compiled from his three Duke Street releases, all released between 1990 and 1995.

January 11, 2024
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WOMADelaide Reveals Final Four Artists for 2024

WOMADelaide has announced the addition of four artists –Afrobeat luminary Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 (Nigeria); tropical pop-reggae artist Hollie Cook (UK); the Mauskovic Dance Band (The Netherlands) and DJ-producer Saliah (Lebanon/UK) – expanding the line-up to an impressive 71 groups appearing at the festival in Adelaide’s Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla from 8-11 March 2024.

January 11, 2024
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Middle Kids Debut More New Music with ‘Terrible News’

Just two weeks into 2024 and Sydney’s Middle Kids have a new song titled ‘Terrible News’.

January 11, 2024
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Selena Gomez To Play Linda Ronstadt In Biopic

Selena Gomez will play Linda Ronstadt in an upcoming biopic about the iconic singer of the 70s and 80s.

January 11, 2024
Kraftwerk at MCA Melbourne 8 December 2023 photo by Winston Robinson, Noise11
Kraftwerk to Perform Eight Complete Albums At Nine Shows In LA

Kraftwerk will take up residency at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in May to perform eights albums over nine nights with the series concluding with a ‘Best Of’ setlist.

January 11, 2024
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Legendary Folk Singer Ralph McTell Prepares For Australia In February

Ralph McTell will start his Australian tour in Sydney on 8 February 2023. There are 15 Australian and two New Zealand dates on the tour, quite a lengthy tour for the 79 year old UK singer songwriter.

January 11, 2024
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Taylor Swift Has The UK’s Biggest Selling Vinyl Album of 2024

The UK's 2023 Vinyl Album Chart for the year has been published giving a clearer indication of what actually sells when you take away streaming figures.

January 10, 2024
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Waxahatchee Are Right Back At It for 2024

One of 2024’s first new releases is ‘Right Back At It’ from Birmingham, Alabama’s Waxahatchee.

January 10, 2024
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Tony Clarkin of Magnum Dies At Age 77

Tony Clarkin, the guitarist for Birmingham band Magnum, has died at age 77.

January 10, 2024
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James Kottak of Scorpions Dies Aged 61

One time Scorpions drummer James Kottak has died at age 61.

January 10, 2024
Sinead O'Connor at Point Nepean, Victoria 2008 photo by Ros O'Gorman
Sinead O’Connor Died of Natural Causes

Sinéad O'Connor died of natural causes, according to the coroner.

January 10, 2024
Lady Gaga Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Lady Gaga Teases New Music

Lady Gaga has hinted she is soon to release new music.

January 10, 2024
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UK Issues Spice Girls Stamps

Mel B has shared that she is "honoured" to be featured on the commemorative stamps to celebrate the Spice Girls 30th anniversary.

January 10, 2024
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Justin Timberlake Scrubs His Instagram Account

Justin Timberlake has wiped his Instagram account amid rumours suggesting he's about to release new music.

January 10, 2024
Rickie Lee Jones and Daryl Braithwaite. Photo Ros OGorman
How Rickie Lee Jones Wrote ‘The Horses’ With Walter Becker of Steely Dan

As you know by now, Daryl Braithwaite’s classic ‘The Horses’ is actually a song by Rickie Lee Jones but Rickie Lee Jones co-wrote with another legend, Walter Becker of Steely Dan.

January 9, 2024
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Off To The Pub? Then Head Off To Choir of Man #REVIEW

In a world of social media, ‘The Choir of Man’ is a show about a show about socialising the old fashioned way … in a pub.

January 9, 2024
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The Rolling Stones To Release ‘Live At The Wiltern’

When The Rolling Stones were on their year long Licks world tour of 2002 and 2003 they played theatres, arenas and stadiums. The size of the venue dictated the setlist and the smaller theatre shows were the ones with the rarities.

January 9, 2024
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The Scattered Solo Beatles Songs Across The Ringo Starr Catalogue

Ringo Starr has recorded 13 songs by the other Beatles across his catalogue plus one rare Beatles song. That's enough to make a standalone album.

January 9, 2024
Take That
Take That Las Vegas Residency Given Go Ahead

Take That's Las Vegas residency has been given the green light.

January 9, 2024
Taylor Swift photo by Ros O'Gorman
Jo Koy Responds To Taylor Swift Joke Reaction

Jo Koy has responded to Taylor Swift's reaction to a joke he made while hosting the Golden Globes.

January 9, 2024
Jimmy Barnes Cold Chisel perform at Rod Laver Arena Melbourne on Thursday 19 November 2015. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Mahalia Barnes Says Jimmy Is Going Well and The Supergroup Is Sounding Great for Red Hot Summer

Jimmy Barnes is home and doing well recovering from his recent heart operation of in the interim Jimmy’s daughter Mahalia has taken over the family business, the band, for Red Hot Summer.

January 8, 2024
Billy Morgan of Smashing Pumpkins photo by Ros O'Gorman
The Smashing Pumpkins Open Guitarist Search To The World

The Smashing Pumpkins are looking for a new guitarist following the departure of Jeff Schroeder, but instead of the usual stealth search normally done for bands of this calibre, the band has thrown it out to anyone in the world to put a hand up for the job.

January 8, 2024
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Billie Eilish’s Barbie Song Wins Best Original Song At The Golden Globe Awards

Billie Eilish ‘What Was I Made For’, written for the movie ‘Barbie’, has won Best Original Song at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards.

January 8, 2024
Neil Young Dume
Neil Young To Release Standalone Dume Album

Neil Young will release a standalone edition of the 1975 ‘Dume’ album featuring songs recording during the ‘Zuma’ sessions.

January 8, 2024
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Sophie Ellis-Bextor Lands Back In UK Top 10

Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Murder on the Dancefloor re-enters the UK Top 10 today for the first time in 22 years at Number 8, thanks to its inclusion in the soundtrack to writer-director Emerald Fennell’s erotic psychological thriller Saltburn. The 2001 disco banger – which originally peaked at Number 2 – has enjoyed its highest-ever week of streams in the UK as a result. More on that below.

January 8, 2024
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton Reveals Brain Tumour Surgery

Michael Bolton has revealed he is recovering after undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumour.

January 7, 2024
David Soul
David Soul Dies Aged 80

One time popstar and Starsky & Hutch star David Soul has died at the age of 80.

January 6, 2024
Nicole Scherzinger: Photo By Ros O'Gorman
Pussycat Dolls Nicole Scherzinger to Make Broadway Debut In ‘Sunset Boulevard’

Nicole Scherzinger of Pussycat Dolls is set to make her Broadway debut in the Sunset Boulevard musical.

January 5, 2024