Britney Spears was surprised with a cake and serenaded by fans as she celebrated her 35th birthday during a gig on Friday night.

Elton John has laughed off reports suggesting he is planning to retire from music after another round of shows.

BBC Music has announced the five artists shortlisted for BBC Music British Artist of the Year ahead of next week’s BBC Music Awards ceremony in London.

Dennis Locorriere will return to Australia in May 2017 for more Dr Hook shows.

Amy Schumer has cancelled her Australian tour due to illness.

When the Rolling Stones announced their first new studio album in a decade, Blue & Lonesome, was going to be a pure blues set, it got purists excited but made the casual fan question why they didn't do another pure rock album.

Live Nation has taken over the Secret Sounds Group with a 51% purchase of the Australian company behind Splendour In The Grass and the Falls Festival.

The third album for Canadian RnB artist The Weeknd becomes his second consecutive No.1 album here, as "Starboy" lands first week on the ARIA Albums chart in the pole position.

The current UK No.1 single for the (now) past four weeks becomes the first chart topping for the UK duo Clean Bandit, along with guest vocalists Anne-Marie and Sean Paul, all on the Ace of Base sounding track "Rockabye".

Neil Finn will perform a solo show at Skyfields in Tasmania in March.

The Rolling Stones have created a video for ‘Ride ‘Em On Down’ from the ‘Blue and Lonesome’ album and it starts Twilight star Kristen Stewart.

Legendary Daddy Cool bass player Wayne Duncan has died.

It was one year ago today that Scott Weiland, leader of the Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver and The Wildabouts, died on his tour bus prior to a show from what was determined to be a mix of cocaine, ethanol and MDA along with a number of underlying conditions.

Little Mix will return to Australia for shows in July 2017.

Earlier this week, Dolly Parton announced that she would be starting a new organization called My People Fund which will donate $1,000 per month to each family in Sevier County, TN who lost their home in the recent wildfire until they are "back on their feet".

Long time members of David Bowie’s live and recording band will gather in Sydney in January with Australia’s Bernard Fanning, Sarah Blasko and Paul Dempsey to perform the music of David Bowie, David Bowie style.

Notice that we specifically said "2016 U.S. Tour" in the headline, because we didn't want our readers to think that they were reading an article from 2013, 2014 or 2015, all years when Morrissey cancelled shows in the U.S.

Deep Purple have a very busy 2017 planned, but could it be their last hurrah?

The Weeknd has had a good weeknd in Australia with his album ‘Starboy’ debuting at no 1.

Clean Bandit ‘Rockabye’ has slipped in front of Rae Sremmurd’s ‘Black Beatles’ on the Shazam chart this week.

The Weeknd ‘Starboy’ stayed the most streamed song in Australia this week.

The download chart was all about the new Clean Bandit song ‘Rockabye’ again this week.

Elton John wants world governments to fund early AIDS testing in a bid to conquer the disease.

Prince's estate executors have racked up $AUD3 million in legal bills in a three-month period.

Cream pretty much created the term "Supergroup" when Eric Clapton (Yardbirds, John Mayall), Ginger Baker (Graham Bond Organisation) and Jack Bruce (Blues Incorporated, Manfred Mann) came together in 1966.

Micky Dolenz of The Monkees is this week's special guest at Noise11 iHeartRadio.

Australia’s community television station Channel 31 will have its last day on air on 31 December 2016.

Mick and Anthea Newton, the founders of A Day On The Green, have developed Australia’s newest music festival A Weekend In The Gardens.

Three albums from Keith Urban's catalog will be released on vinyl tomorrow by Capitol Nashville/UMe.

Major new titles coming out this week include: The Rolling Stones, Cold Chisel (live), John Legend, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kate Miller-Heidke (GH), Kane Brown, Bob Dylan (live), Avenged Sevenfold (GH), Childish Gambino, Nicole Millar and The Last Shadow Puppets.