Garbage founder Butch Vig will not be with the band when they tour Australia next week.

Hugh McDonald, a member of Australian band Redgum, has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 62.

Sharon Jones of soul and funk band The Dap Kings, has lost her battle with cancer at age 60.

Twisted Sister is no more. The band played their final show last Saturday night at Parque Fundidora in Monterrey, Mexico, ending their "Forty and Fuck It Tour" which began on June 10 at the Sweden Rock Festival.

While there has not been an official announcement, all signs point towards lead vocalist Ed Kowalczyk returning to the band Live.

Music industry support organization Sounds Australia has been given a last-minute lifeline with the Federal Government reversing its decision to discontinue funding.

Metallica have not only made a video for every song on their new ‘Hardwired…To Self-Destruct’ album, they have made them free for you to watch on YouTube.

Bruce Springsteen will narrate the audio edition of his critically acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Born to Run. Simon & Schuster Audio will publish the 18-hour-long audiobook on December 6.

Nile Rodgers has signed on as a keynote speaker at SXSW.

Oliver Perry (aka D.D Dumbo) has won the award for Triple J Album of the Year for 2016.

Bruce Springsteen and Diana Ross were among the 21 people named today to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Disturbed frontman and founder David Draiman is at Noise11 iHeartRadio this week from The X Studio.

Major new titles coming out this week include: Little Mix, Bic Runga, Sixx.A.M., Bruno Mars, Kerser, Justice, Metallica, DNCE and the Fantastic Beasts soundtrack.

Bobbi Kristina Brown's boyfriend has been ordered to pay her estate officials more than $36 million (£29 million) after he was found civilly liable for her death.

Bon Jovi's complete studio album catalog including their latest, This House is Not For Sale, is being collected in a new 25-LP box set Bon Jovi: The Albums set the release for February 10.

Moira Bennett, producer for Room 8, is taking her show 'At Last: The Etta James Story' on tour in the UK in March 2017.

Art music composers have the chance to share in A$100,000 worth of funding to create new commissioned work thanks to the APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund.

Ricky Martin is heading to Las Vegas for a residency.

Bob Dylan will not travel to Sweden to accept his historic Nobel Prize win.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard took home a stack of music awards from The Age and Music Victoria this week.

Triple J Unearthed winners The Money War has released the another single from their upcoming EP.

Western Australia’s Human Buoy has revealed their video for ‘Fields’.

Don Henley will return to Australia as a solo artist in 2017.

Country singer Holly Dunn has passed away in a hospice facility in Albuquerque, NM at the age of 59. She had been diagnosed with a rare form of ovarian cancer earlier this year.

A chunk of 90s rappers have teamed up to tour Australia on the ‘I Love The 90’s Tour’ in 2017.

In the five years since the breakup of R.E.M., lead singer Michael Stipe has only made a couple of appearances. Instead, he has spent time working on his art, including brass and bronze sculptures.

11 more acts have joined the Bluesfest line-up including Australia’s Glenn Cardier, Jeff Lang and Lloyd Spiegel.

Adele will tour Australia for the first time ever in February 2017 playing stadium shows.

Rock legends Aerosmith will embark on a "farewell" tour of Europe next year.

Jackson Browne is a little unsure of how he will play his first shows of 2017 in April. That's why he's calling it the (Pretty Much) Somewhat Acoustic Tour.