Alejandro Fuentes, a Top 10 finalist on La Vox (The Voice) in Mexico in 2011, has died after being shot in the head in Chicago in Thursday night. He died on Saturday.

Punk band Death Valley Girls from the streets of Echo Park, Los Angeles, have sourced the far reaches of Australia to cover the Oz Rock Classic ‘Horror Movie’ by Skyhooks.

The third album for local rock act The Temper Trap entitled "Thick as Thieves" becomes the bands second consecutive No.1 album and third Top 10 set, entering at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week.

For the first time this year a song has climbed back up to the top of the ARIA Singles chart, and with the last such occurrence being back in September 2014, it's been awhile since we've seen a returning track; as this week "One Dance" by Drake notches up his fifth week at the top of the Australian singles chart.

Attrell ‘Prince Be’ Cordes of P.M. Dawn has died from kidney disease at the age of 46.

Singer Rick Astley has made up the ground and officially scored his first number 1 album since 1987.

Meat Loaf is recovering in a Canadian hospital after collapsing during a show in Edmonton on Thursday night.

Deep Purple founder and drummer Ian Paice has revealed that the band cancelled show earlier this week after he suffered a mini-stroke.

On June 17 at 12:01 AM local time, The Beatles' award-winning Love album will become available for streaming worldwide.

US Senate candidate and music producer Steven Machat has called for tighter gun control in the lead-up to the US elections.

Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals and Peter Garrett & The Alter Egos are in the first artist announcement for the Queenscliff Music Festival for 2016.

Meat Loaf was rushed to hospital today after collapsing on stage in Canada during a show in Edmonton.

New music is struggling to grab a presence on the iTunes album chart in Australia today with a flood of cheap best of’s taking up one-third of the Top 30.

Richard Marx has exchanged words with an ignorant, gun tooting fan who accused the singer of being “holier than thou about my rights to own a gun”.

A Day On The Green is expanding its line-up and heading to Armidale and Mudgee in October with 12 acts on each show.

Tears For Fears have been working on a new album for release in 2017.

Radiohead’s ninth album ‘A Man Shaped Pool’ was released on CD and vinyl today.

Neko Case is the special guest at Noise11 iHeartRadio this week as ‘case/lang/veirs’, her album with kd lang and Laura Veirs is released worldwide.

Red Hot Chili Peppers release their eleventh studio album, The Getaway today as well as the video to go along with 'Dark Necessities'.

Status Quo's Rick Parfitt has suffered a suspected heart attack after a show in Turkey.

Singer Melissa Etheridge has paid tribute to the victims of last weekend's nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida by writing a new song about the tragedy.

RCA Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Way Down In The Jungle Room, a definitive new 2-CD collection of Elvis Presley's last studio recordings, on Friday, August 5.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, case/lang/veirs, Bob Evans, Jake Bugg, Mumford & Sons (EP), and the new So Fresh comp and Finding Dory soundtrack lead the week's new music releases.

Australian singer songwriter Darren Hayes has written a pointed, articulate letter to Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull about the taxpayer wasting plebiscite ahead of the Federal election.

Cliff Richards has been cleared of all sexual abuse charges with the Crown Prosecution Service saying the case has been “carefully reviewed” and there is “insufficient evidence to prosecute”.

Gyan will return to live performance to perform songs from her recent album ‘This Girl’s In Love’ on a national tour.

Violinist Patrick Roberts has finished recording his new song ‘Legacy’ and is preparing to debut the song live in his hometown Melbourne at the Forum in July.

Brisbane singer Grace Sewell dropped by Daryl Hall’s house recently for an episode of Live From Daryl’s House.

Jimmy Barnes, Katie Noonan and Josh Pyke are just a few Australian Music names who have raised their voices ahead of the Australian election for governments to support the Australian Music Industry.

Rick Astley has been part of internet jokes for almost five years with the infamous "Rickrolling" where a link is placed on a post or story talking about some fabulous item or fact which just leads to the video of Astley singing his hit Never Gonna Give You Up.