Damon Albarn has postponed his appearance at the Sydney Opera House after gunmen took a number of patrons hostage at the Lindt Cafe in Martin Place.

Judas Priest will mark the 30th anniversary of the Defenders of the Faith album with a deluxe edition in March.

Angus & Julia Stone have expanded their 2015 tour to include Geelong and Hobart and have added a second Darwin date.

Voting is now open for Triple J’s Hottest 100 of 2014.

Macy Gray will perform at the first Blues Mountains Music Festival in March.

The UK is facing one of its biggest chart showdowns of all-time with music legend Engelbert Humperdinck in battle again metal icons Iron Maiden for the number one spot on the English chart next week.

The Waifs and Paul Dempsey will headline the first Peninsula Picnic at Mornington in Victoria in March.

Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan’s 80s pop classic ‘Especially For You’ has just sold over one million copies in the UK, 26 years after its release.

5 Seconds of Summer are happy to be benefitting the world of rock music.

Bob Dylan played a concert for just one person at Philadelphia's Academy Of Music.

Ben Haenow is the 2014 X Factor winner.

Yusuf, the former Cat Stevens, appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Friday night to sing a song from his latest album, Tell 'Em I'm Gone.

Prog-rock legend Rick Wakeman will release two of his most successful albums as expanded CD/DVD Deluxe Edition packages for the first time.

D'Angelo has released a pop=up album, Black Messiah, his first record in 14 years.

The classic Motown groups the Temptations and the Four Tops were guests at the White House on Friday afternoon.

Billy Idol has joined the Download Festival.

The Rolling Stones had the biggest single concert run of 2014.

Grease has a new face for the Melbourne return. John Paul Young has replaced Anthony Callea who played the Johnny Casino role when the show first hit town in January, 2014.

Rick Springfield has joined the cast of the second season of HBO's True Detective.

Iron Butterfly are back together again.

Michael Bublé and his festive album “Christmas” returns to the top of the ARIA Albums chart this week, and in doing so for the fourth time in four years, creates history as the first album EVER to return to the No.1 spot (after leaving the chart) four separate times.

Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars have the number one song in Australia.

Damon Albarn seems comfortable with this heritage. The rare Albarn intimate show in front of 3000 fans at Melbourne’s Palais Theatre was an alternate summary of a career that began with Blur back at the start of the 90s.

Leo Sayer will release his new album ‘Restless Years’ in January, 2015.

AC/DC have announced the first official dates for the Rock Or Bust World Tour.

Temperatures in Örebro, Sweden are expected to be below zero for most days in mid-January so it is no surprise that Örebro’s own Truckfighters have chosen Australia to spend the start of 2015.

Chet Faker has added extra Sydney and Melbourne shows for his sell-out Australian tour.

Taylor Swift has sold out her Melbourne stadium show at AMMI Park in less than one hour.

Glenn Tilbrook reveals his plans with Chris Difford and Squeeze for 2015 this week on iHeartRadio Music News powered by Noise11.com and Squeeze fans will be happy.

Daryl Hall will perform at his brand new restaurant and club on New Years Eve and stream the concert live.