Australian radio network Triple J and Mushroom Publishing CEO Ian James have been shortlisted for the International Music Awards at Musexpo.

Irish singer songwriter Hozier will be perform for Sydney and Melbourne when he visits Australia for Bluesfest.

Irmin Schmidt, the mastermind behind the German experimental rock band Can will receive the French Chevalier De L’Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture.

Brisbane’s Sheppard are back in the USA preparing for a showcase performance for the Jimmy Fallon show next week.

The City of Geelong will be treated at a brand new live music venue in March and Jake Clemons from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band is the first act to be announced.

Colin Hay will release ‘Next Year People’, his 12th album outside Men At Work, in time for his Australian tour.

The Felice Brothers will perform tow of their own shows for Melbourne and Sydney in March.

Melbourne’s Pseudo Echo will record a live album at the iconic Viper Room in West Hollywood this coming Saturday (February 7, 2015).

Bobbi Kristina Brown is reportedly suffering from brain swelling.

Steve Smyth and Cody Simpson, along with Sydney's George Maple are the newest Australian additions to SXSW.

The Offspring have dropped a band new song titled ‘Coming For You’ on fans but it is still not clear if the track precedes the band’s 10th album or is a one-off single.

Dave Faulkner is taking his pre-Hoodoo Gurus band The Victims on a victory lap across east coast Australia.

Brian Wilson returns to the original home of the Beach Boys, Capitol Records, for his new album No Pier Pressure.

Alice Cooper has been opening for Motley Crue on their final tour and will continue to do so for most of the dates throughout 2015 leading up to their New Year's Eve finale.

The Gorillaz, the cartoon group created by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewllet, are on their way back.

Bobbi Kristina Brown has been stabilized after reportedly being found unconscious in a bathtub.

“1989” by Taylor Swift is at No.1 on the ARIA Albums chart for an eighth non-consecutive week, making it her third set of double weeks at the top (3 to 10 Nov 2014, 5 to 12 Jan and now 26 Jan to 2 Feb 2015).

Scoring a second week at the top of the ARIA Singles chart is the fourth Jamaican act to achieve a chart-topping single here, Omi (Omar Pasley) and “Cheerleader”.

Midge Ure will return to Australia in April for Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle.

Cold Chisel have had to release a statement to clarify that the Don Walker comment that the band would dedicate their upcoming reunion show to Prince Phillip was a joke.

In 2011 Iva Davies & his band Icehouse toured Australia on what was known to fans as their “Flowers” tour, playing songs primarily from their very first album when the band were actually called Flowers and the title of the album was “Icehouse”.

Foreigner has survived since its inception as a live band because of the consistent longevity of founder, guitarist, producer and songwriter Mick Jones.

Suge Knight has been arrested for murder after killing, what is reported, to have been the wrong man.

Melbourne’s White Night will take over the City of Melbourne with the city set alight from 7pm to 7am and a fill night of music from the likes of Jeff Lang, Jen Cloher and Remi.

The family of Margo Cesario (nee Moir) has confirmed that the death of the singer was due to complications from diabetes.

On iHeartRadio Music News, powered by Noise11.com you will hear the new songs by Daniel Johns, N.E.R.D. and Mark Ronson with Kevin Parker of Tame Impala.

Tom Petty has issued a statement to say similarity between Sam Smith’s ‘Stay With Me’ and his own ‘I Won’t Back Down’ is just a “musical accident”.

Rod McKuen, the poet and songwriters whose credits include Jean, If You Go Away, Seasons in the Sun and Love's Been Good to Me, died on Thursday in Beverly Hills, CA from pneumonia. He was 81.

Ringo Starr has a song about his first band Rory and the Hurricanes on his next album ‘Postcards From Paradise’.

Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney will come alive with the sound of music tonight when Bernard Fanning together with Little May kick off the first show in the Twilight At Taronga series.