Broadcast Music, Inc, announced today that world-renowned singer-songwriter Sting will be named the BMI Icon at this year’s BMI London Awards in recognition of his award-winning career and influence on popular music for more than four decades.

Mona Foma has dropped a surprise announcement for 2017 with news that Maynard Keenan and Mike Patton will be in Hobart, Tasmania for next year’s event.

If the company Syd Bernstein Presents the Shea Stadium concert at the end of The Beatles Eight Days A Week movie may disappear fast.

Rick Parfitt, the guitarist and vocalist for Status Quo (along with Francis Rossi) for over fifty years, has been ordered to rest for, at a minimum, the rest of the year.

Billy Joel's record-breaking run of shows at New York's Madison Square Garden will take just a short time off while the singer undergoes endoscopic sinus surgery.

Snoop Dogg won’t be jumping on any “bandwagon” by turning his life story into movie.

In 1963, Darlene Love released the song Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) as part of the album A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector.

Colleen Hewett will return to a new production of Godspell in Melbourne in October.

The Human League will release a 3 disc anthology of their 40 years of recordings.

540 Victorian artists submitted entries for the Melbourne Music Bank 2016. 12 have been picked as finalists.

Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam has played the first show in his A Cat's Attic: 50th Anniversary Acoustic Tour at the Sony Centre For the Performing Arts in Toronto.

Tame Impala will perform around Australia for the next Laneway Festival in 2017.

Lady Gaga is reportedly in top secret talks to headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show in February (17).

Last year, Ian Anderson brought his Jethro Tull: The Musical to a number of venues on the east coast of the United States. This October, he brings the presentation to the west.

John Farnham will headline the next series of dates for the Red Hot Summer tour of 2017.

Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong leads an all-star cast in a candid and heart-warming comedy, ORDINARY WORLD released on DVD and Digital Download on 17 October via Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Triple J has confirmed that the Hottest 100 will go ahead on January 26, 2017.

Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen decided to work on an album together after meeting up at a friend’s funeral last year.

Dan Sultan has an album planned for 2017 and has shared a sampler of the first song ‘Magnetic’.

As the November 8 UK opening of Lazarus at London’s King Cross Theatre approaches, the cast and band of the original New York production will release their versions of the David Bowie songs from the show as the Lazarus Cast Album October 21 on ISO / RCA Records.

Fifty years ago today, September 12, 1966, The Monkees hit the TV airwaves for the first time.

Nick Murphy, the artist formerly known as Chet Faker, has released his first song under his own name.

Zydeco great Buckwheat Zydeco has been diagnosed with lung cancer.

An exhibition charting the rise and influence of iconic British band The Jam is to be sold off in one of the biggest rock n’ roll auctions to ever take place in Europe.

Jet will reform to open for Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band on Bruce’s 2017 Summer Tour.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band will tour Australia in the summer of 2017.

The 30th Anniversary LP edition of Beastie Boys' debut album Licensed To Ill will be released on October 14, 2016. This special reissue was cut from the original production masters and is presented on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl.

The Beatles new movie Eight Days A Week from director Ron Howard is an incredible document of the touring years.

Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter Patti Griffin will headline the Port Fairy Folk Festival in Victoria in 2017.

Former Britain’s Got Talent contestant Calum Scott has the most searched out song on Shazam in Australia this week.