Glen Matlock popped over to Music-News.com HQ in North London for a cup of tea and a chat bringing his acoustic guitar to knock out a couple of tunes just for us.

Sixty thousand adoring fans pack the Etihad Stadium to see the iconic Mancunian band The Stone Roses. Since their jubilant and triumphant reunion back in 2012, typically we have heard very little from The Roses; bar two new tracks.

Boom Crash Opera founding Peter Farnan is working on a project he calls ‘Pesky Bones’.

Music producer Mark Ronson has declared Lily Allen's new music as some of her best work to date.

Justin Timberlake came under fire from critics on Twitter for praising Jesse Williams' moving speech at the BET Awards on Sunday night.

Guy Garvey want changes to UK's policy on refugees.

A shirt spattered with the blood of late Beatles star John Lennon has sold at auction for £31,000 ($AUD55,000).

Heath Franklin’s alter-ego Chopper will visit regional Victoria to spread the word of uniting Australia and New Zealand into the nation Anzakistan.

Atari has announced a co-production agreement with award-winning, hip-hop legend RZA, the producer, rapper and original member of the Wu-Tang Clan.

John Lodge is dipping back to his musical past for a new single.

The Mavericks are going full-fledged independent.

Rapper 50 Cent has been arrested for allegedly swearing during a concert on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts.

Jerome Teasley, a drummer who was a member of Jr. Walker & the All Stars and worked extensively in the studio, died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, AZ after battling stage four cancer in his lungs and liver. He was 67.

Adele pushed her nerves aside to deliver a crowd-pleasing performance at Britain's Glastonbury Festival on Saturday night.

Beyonce was the big winner at the BET Awards on Sunday night, taking home four gongs.

Ronnie Wood turned heads at the hospital where his new daughters were recently born.

Bluegrass great Ralph Stanley has died after battling skin cancer. He was 89.

Jeff Lynne had a rock solid setlist planned for Glastonbury on the weekend. The one thing he didn’t plan on was the rain.

Adele held court more than performed at Glastonbury on the weekend.

case/lang/veirs, the dynamic trio featuring Neko Case, kd lang and Laura Veirs have played their first live shows and a few old favs made the setlist.

Coldplay had the headlining set on the last day of Britain's Glastonbury Festival on Sunday and, as part of their set, they brought out special guest Barry Gibb.

Out on Long Island, there is a little covers band called Big Shot that performs the music of Billy Joel.

Broadway’s hit musical ‘You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown’ has come to Melbourne for the school holidays and its good, clean family fun.

Alabama’s The Dirty Clergy will release their second album ‘Rattlesnake’ in July.

A Mental As Anything show is always a treat for Australian music fans.

Melbourne guitarist Joe Matera has been invited back to Germany to appear at the Wings N Wheels Festival in Hamburg in July.

Leo Sayer and Lulu together simply works as a show. Individually their hits are staggering. Combined they are mind-blowing.

The eleventh studio album for the group Red Hot Chili Peppers entitled "The Getaway" becomes the bands sixth No.1 album in Australia this week, and their first No.1 in over ten years.

Drake is again No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with his track "One Dance", now notching up a sixth broken week at the top here, whilst it remains for an eleventh week at the top in the UK (new digital-era record) and a sixth week in the USA.

Bernie Worrell, a founding member of Parliament – Funkadelic and later backing singer for Talking Heads, has lost his battle with lung cancer at age 72.