In September of 1961, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson and Dennis Wilson stepped up to a microphone together for the first time at the home of Hite and Dorinda Morgan to demo the Beach Boys’ first three songs.

Lorde has donated $14,000 (£10,000) to a struggling charity drive which aims to give school lunches to under-privileged children.

David Gilmour dug deep into his catalog on Saturday night in Wroclaw, Poland and pulled out the track One of These Days.

As Mental As Anything approaches the benchmark 40th anniversary Greedy Smith joins Noise11 at iHeartRadio to talk new and old.

Any music fan is fully aware that Coldplay never fail to disappoint a crowd of thousands. The band were met with relentless rainfall within Wembley, yet Chris Martian (lead) vowed to make the performance the best they had ever done; regardless of the battle of the elements.

New titles coming out this week include: Delta Goodrem, Grace, Magic!, Bat for Lashes, Metronomy, In Stereo, Blood Orange and The Goods.

Rita Ora was hospitalised due to exhaustion on Wednesday.

After living in an underground studio of an old house in Woodstock for 2 months, Natasha Khan (aka Bat For Lashes) finally finished recording her 4th album The Bride.

For someone with the calibre of Lionel Richie, playing the Eden Project is comparable to the upstairs room of a pub compared to the usual crowds he commands. And we are all looking forward to being treated to a cross section of his back catalogue on this his 'All The Hits' tour.

The SXSW music conference has opened artist submissions for showcases for 2017.

Jeff Duff will perform his acclaimed ‘Ziggy – The Songs of David Bowie’ at Hope Estate Winery with the Australian Symphony Orchestra.

Steel Panther is just the thing to jolt you from your Election woes this weekend. They'll be programming Rage.

The 2016 APRA Art Music Awards will be announced in Melbourne on August 16.

Melanie Martinez will return to Australia and New Zealand in August after touring earlier this year with Adam Lambert.

BBC Music today announces that Rolling Stone legend Keith Richards is to front a film for BBC Two to air in July, and this Autumn will curate an incredible weekend of programming for BBC Four.

Pregnant Alanis Morissette has wowed fans by posting an underwater nude shot of herself on social media.

Van Morrison’s 36th studio album ‘Keep Me Singing’ will be released in September.

Panic At The Disco recently recorded a cover of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody’ for the new movie ‘Suicide Squad’.

Cher has apologised for using a bomb and explosion emoji in a tweet about Tuesday's terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Beatles were one of the final holdouts from releasing their music onto streaming services, but they finally relented last year at Christmas.

Bassist Rob Wasserman, who has worked with numerous artists but is probably best known for his association with Bob Weir and RatDog, has died.

The Spice Girls have been forced to postpone their 20th anniversary tour plans until 2017.

Justin Bieber is now free from his 2014 vandalism case, after serving almost two years on probation.

For Paul Simon, "Showbiz doesn’t hold any interest for me. None."

Prince Harry joined Coldplay on stage this evening at Kensington Palace to close the Sentebale charity concert and called for more to be done to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Rapper Drake showed off his motivational speaking talents while delivering a speech to South African youths at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory on Monday.

Ozzy Osbourne has dismissed his manager wife Sharon's retirement talk, insisting he plans to rock on for some time.

Scotty Moore, the legendary guitarist for Elvis Presley, has died in Tennessee at the age of 84.

Bonny "Mack" Rice, also known as Sir Mack Rice, died on Monday in Detroit from complications of Alzheimer's Disease at the age of 82. Rice was a member of the doo-wop group the Falcons along with a well-known songwriter.

Barry Gibb, the lone surviving brother from the Bee Gees, is headed back in the studio to record a new album.