‘1984’, Van Halen’s last album of the era with David Lee Roth, turned 40 years old this week.

Happy birthday to Australian music legend Daryl Braithwaite, who turns 75 today (January 11, 2024).

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’.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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