The 2016 ARIA Awards did Australia proud last night using its reach to send a very strong message to the Turnbull government about its cruel and antiquated marriage equality policy.

Bon Jovi's latest album, This House is Not For Sale, debuted at number 1, the sixth of their career, and then promptly set a record for the biggest drop from the top spot going to number 43 in its second week.

It seems that president-elect Donald Trump's people are a little confused as to who they want to play at the inauguration and who is even willing.

For a number of months, Morrissey has been unusually quiet from his usual political rants. As a matter of fact, it has been quite boring around those parts.

The 2016 ARIA Awards were held in Sydney on 23 November 2016 with a proud win going to music legend Russell Morris for Best Blues and Roots album 'Red Dirt Red Heart.'

Crowded House was inducted into the ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) Hall of Fame during the annual ARIA Awards in Sydney on Wednesday.

Russell Morris has picked up his second ARIA Award with the award for Best Blues And Roots Album for ‘Red Dirt Red Heart’.

Songwriter Malcolm Black and ANC Music Publishing manager Marianna Annas have been announced as the new APRA board members while Pitch Perfect Publishing co-MD Clive Hodson has joined the AMCOS board.

If you are wondering who will win the 2016 ARIA Awards, then just look at the odds.

Cloud Control will headline Gippsland’s The Hills Are Alive festival for 2017.

Kate Bush has created a video for ‘And Dream Of Sheep’.

U.S. leader President Barack Obama had a few superstar guests at the White House on Tuesday (22Nov16) as he awarded America's top civilian honour to Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Hanks, and Robert De Niro, among others.

Justin Bieber has been caught on camera punching a fan in the face during a scary encounter in Spain.

Former Spice Girls star Melanie Chisholm is relieved she won't be part of a planned 2017 reunion, but insists she'll keep in touch with her old bandmates.

PSV Touring, the company behind the disastrous De La Soul Australian tour, has lashed out at the veteran hip-hop group who were an embarrassment to fans.

The new Rolling Stones album ‘Blue and Lonesome’ will be released in December but one of the songs resurfaced in 2012.

Kanye West has been taken to a hospital in Los Angeles after police responded to a medical welfare call around 1:20pm Los Angeles time.

Former CDB and current Boom Crash Opera frontman Andrew De Silva will bring his Purple Revolution: A Tribute To Prince’ show to Sydney’s The X Studio.

Duran Duran’s ‘Notorious’ recently clocked up its 30th anniversary.

The Magnetic Fields will release a five-disc chronicle to 50 years of Stephen Merritt and tour the project next year.

Triple J’s breakfast team Matt & Alex will not return to the network in 2017.

Snoop Dogg has called his fellow rapper Kanye West "crazy" following his rant during a concert in Sacramento, California on Saturday.

Tasmania's A Festival Called Panama has added a second line-up of acts for the 2017 event.

The magic of Brian Cadd has and always will be about the songs. Generations of Australians have treasured the music of Brian Cadd over the past 50 years.

Mick Fettes, the original singer for Melbourne band Madder Lake, has died at the age of 65.

Adele will play a second show for Melbourne and Brisbane on her first Australia tour next year.

The Leon Russell memorial has been uploaded to YouTube for streaming globally.

Over 500 people came to Brooklyn Heights on Sunday morning for a peace rally brought on by the vandalizing of Adam Yauch Park.

Santana and The Doobie Brothers will tour Australia together while in the country for Bluesfest in April.

Donald Trump, the man who will be the next president of the Divided States of America, went into tantrum mode after a Saturday Night Live sketch on the weekend.