Missy Elliott and Queen Latifah as well as songwriter Diane Warren and actor Sophie Bush will join First Lady Michelle Obama for her keynote address at SXSW Music this Wednesday in Austin.

The shock the music world felt over the death of Keith Emerson was only increased when it was ruled that the keyboardist had committed suicide.

Lucinda Williams opened her tour in support of the new album, The Ghosts of Highway 20, on Saturday night at College Street Music Hall in New Haven, CT.

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris will release a new three-CD set comprised of their two Trio albums and a disc of bonus material on September 9 via Rhino.

Phil Collins' resurgence as a performer continues to scale up at a snail's pace.

Gladys Knight has been announced as this year's recipient of the Living Legend Award from BET's Black Girls Rock!.

Radiohead will play a series of live shows later this year which, together with the festival dates already announced and a few more international festival dates to follow, will complete their touring schedule for 2016.

Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy will co-headline a tour this summer.

Joe Jackson emerged in the late 70’s, along with Elvis Costello, Ian Dury and Graham Parker as British singer songwriters who had the talent, the tenacity and gall to sing about real life with wonderful lyrics and tuneful songs that still stand up gloriously today.

Iron Maiden’s private tour jet Ed Force One has been grounded after an accident at Chile.

Madonna replaced her Molly Meldrum “love fest” with ‘Fever’ at her second Melbourne show last night.

Greg Lake has issued the following statement following the death of Keith Emerson from their trio Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

President Barack Obama spoke at SXSW on Friday and articulated the will of the people. Meanwhile across America some idiot with an orange complexion is sprouting Nazi liners and foolish American’s are lapping it up.

The children of Jon English have issued a statement of thanks following the passing of their father on Thursday, March 10, 2016.

Most Eagles fans have suspected that the beloved band was most likely done after the recent death of Glenn Frey, but now they have confirmation from bandmate Don Henley.

Sydney act Cosmo’s Midnight is a last minute no-show for SXSW in Texas next week due to via issues.

When you are the person setting the benchmark then everyone has to rise to your standards. At 57 years old, Madonna is the greatest pop star on the planet. The ‘Rebel Heart’ show in Melbourne was precision pop perfection.

Local act The Cat Empire land their second ARIA Albums Chart No.1 this week with their seventh studio album “Rising with the Sun”, eleven years after they first took out the top spot.

Danish act Lukas Graham remains at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a fourth straight week (fifth week too in the UK) with “7 Years”, which this week is newly certified ▲Platinum in sales.

The death of Australian singer songwriter Jon English on Wednesday night has sent fans searching for his music.

Don McLean has chosen to his wife's filing for divorce public rather than make it a private affair.

Patrisha McLean, the wife of singer Don McLean for the past thirty years, has filed for divorce in the wake of a January domestic violence arrest.

Janet Jackson postponed several European tour dates because poor ticket sales meant she was "about to badly flop", according to reports.

Survivor singer Dave Bickler is changing his tune as far as how he left the band.

Weezer have just launched the video for California Girls, taken from their 10th studio album ‘The White Album’, out 1st April.

Keyboardist Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer died last night in Santa Monica, CA. He was 71.

Sir Elton John has sent a very honest message to Australian country star Catherine Britt ‘Fuck You Cancer’.

After years of degrading VHS tapes and bootleg DVDs, fans of Johnny Winter and Dr. John can finally have a pristine copy of their Live in Sweden 1987 on DVD along with CD, vinyl and digital formats.

Jessie Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal claims that on the day of the Paris terrorist attack six security guards didn’t turn up for work.

The past week has seen incredible losses for the music world with the passing of Ross Hannaford of Daddy Cool, Jon English and Sir George Martin. This week at Noise11 iHeartRadio we pay tribute.