Another Sydney music venue is to close when the Newtown Social Club shuts in April.

Neil Diamond has added a bunch of new dates to his almost forty North American shows already scheduled for "The 50 Year Anniversary World Tour".

Spiderbait have announced their supports acts for the Ivy and the Big Apple tour in March.

Pond have released ‘Sweep Me Off My Feet’, the first taste of their concept album ‘The Weather’, due in May.

Rodney Crowell’s famous friends Sheryl Crow and Rosanne Cash will join him on his next album ‘Close Ties’.

Billy Bragg has written new lyrics for Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a Changing to reflect the current times.

Wyndham City will host a series of free music events in February with Pseudo Echo and Charles Jenkins headlining some shows.

The planned Janis Joplin biopic starring Amy Adams is no longer being developed.

A lot of people think that the Zombies' Odyssey & Oracle was released in 1969 because of the heavy airplay that Time of the Season received in that year but it had actually been issued over a year earlier in early-1968.

Don’t go looking for Glenn Hughes to be the changeling. He is one of the best vocalists rock music has ever had – the voice of rock – and his audience want him to be the Glenn Hughes they have grown up with and love like demons. And he is happy to deliver just what they want.

Ronald "Bingo" Mundy, one of the original members of the Marcels, died on Friday from pneumonia at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA at the age of 76.

While it is doubtful that they can beat the juggernaut that is La La Land, both Sting and Justin Timberlake have been nominated in the Best Song category at the Academy Awards.

Three years ago, Capitol Records released All-Time Greatest Hits, a compilation of Neil Diamond's biggest hits and album tracks that went to 14 in the U.S., the highest one of his many hits packages had ever gone.

Singer Chris Brown has blasted comic Aziz Ansari for poking fun at him during his Saturday Night Live hosting stint over the weekend.

Rapper Soulja Boy pleaded not guilty to two felony gun possession counts on Monday and will return to court next month to fight the charges.

Bliss N Eso have released a statement following the death of actor Johann Ofner, who died on Monday in a “workplace accident” while filming a video for the trio.

Courtney Barnett has joined the Bluesfest line-up by personal request from Patti Smith.

Daryl Braithwaite has had to cancel more shows this week on doctors orders because he is “making slow progress”.

John Mellencamp has released his first new music in 2-1/2 years with the new song Easy Target.

Ray Davies' first new album in over nine years, Americana, will be released on April 21 via Legacy Recordings.

Jaki Liebezeit, the influential German drummer from the band Can, died on Sunday (January 22) after suffering from pneumonia. He was 78.

It's a big week for New Edition as their three-night biopic premieres tomorrow on BET and they received their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Joey Powers, who hit the U.S. top ten in 1964 with Midnight Mary, died on Friday at Washington Hospital in Washington, PA at the age of 82.

Two of the most popular solo artists of the last four decades are combining forces for a summer 2017 tour.

A man in his 20s has been shot dead during the filming of a Bliss N Eso video in a Brisbane bar.

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer festival has grown to become one of Australia’s most appreciated music festivals.

Jimmy Barnes has added ‘Encore’ dates to his Working Class Boy tour with new regional and additional Sydney and Melbourne dates on the way.

Comedian Aziz Ansari has focused his Saturday Night Live monologue American demagogue Donald Trump and likened some of his supporters to Chris Brown fans.

The third album for the English trio The xx becomes the band's first No.1 album on the ARIA Albums chart, as "I See You" debuts in the pole position this week.

Ed Sheeran again holds the top two spots in the country with his tracks "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill" retaining their entry positions from last week at No.1 and No.2.