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.

Gary Oldman and other friends of David Bowie are to celebrate the late rock icon with a concert in his hometown on his 70th birthday.

Pop veteran Paula Abdul is heading out on her first tour in over two decades with New Kids on the Block and Boyz II Men.

After a couple of years of touring with Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel, Sting is ready to go back out on the road as a solo act.

The city of Buenos Aires, Argentina has relented and will allow Kraftwerk to play at Luna Park Stadium on November 23.

Eagles of Death Metal's manager has denied the rockers were kicked out of Sting's memorial gig at the Bataclan.

Pop star Pink is pregnant with her second child.

It seems that we just did this for Leonard Cohen and we are back again with the reactions from over 25 artists on the passing of Leon Russell.

Leon Russell, the genius songwriter and musician, passed away in Nashville on Sunday (13 November, 2016) at the age of 74.