Melbourne’s finest musicians have gathered for ‘Travellin’ Soldier’, the second single from Guitars For Veterans Australia (G4VA) ‘Second Tour’ album.

John Lennon’s ‘Walls and Bridges’ album clocked up its 50th anniversary this week. ‘Walls and Bridges’ was released on 4 October 1974 in the UK and a week earlier in the USA.

The Australian Open has announced artists performing at the tennis on 2025.

Donald Glover has cancelled his upcoming Childish Gambino tour for the UK and Europe as well as the already cancelled North American dates. However there has been no announcement if the Australia New Zealand 2025 dates will be effected at this stage.

Madonna has lost her younger brother Christopher Ciccone to cancer at the age of 63.

Dolly Parton has announced she will personally donate a seven-figure sum to Hurricane Helene relief efforts.

Following the (not so) secret “Barking Spiders” show in Wollongong earlier this week, the first official show of Cold Chisel’s ‘The Big Five O’ tour kicked off in Armidale, NSW on Saturday, 5 October 2024.

The Weeknd has returned to Australia for his second tour with an upgrade from Arena to Stadium for ‘After Hours Til Dawn’. This production is massive. The catwalk is so long it would not fit inside the 14,000 capacity Rod Laver Arena. The length of the 55000 capacity Marvel Stadium football oval was required just to fit it in.

The Fauves will deliver their 13th album ‘Tropical Strength’ on November 1 and as a teaser have given us a preview with the song ‘un-Australians’, featuring a video made from very old VHS footage.

In March 2025 The Cruel Sea will release their first album in 23 years. ‘Straight Into The Sun’ is coming 7 March 2025. Check out the title track ‘Straight Into The Sun’ right now.

Before seeing ‘Tina – The Tina Turner Musical’ I wondered how the producers would be able to tell the confronting and often violent story of Tina Turner while maintaining the entertainment factor to hold an audience over two plus hours. Let me say, ‘Tina – The Tina Turner Musical’ succeeds on both a historical level and an entertainment level. This is brilliant theatre.

Bruce Springsteen has made his strongest political speech ever giving his full support endorsing Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and calling Trump “the most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime”.

Calum Scott has announced two of his own shows in Sydney and Melbourne in January while he is in the country touring with The Script.

Southern Sons will reform in January for multiple dates cross from January to May.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will tour the UK and Europe again in 2025.

Pink Floyd have sold their music catalogue to Sony for a reported $400 million.

Oasis North American dates have been revealed with Canada, the USA and Mexico slipped in between UK dates.

Online sales for the Countdown 50 cent coin, released today (3 October 2024) by the Royal Australian Mint, was an instant sell-out.

Cold Chisel has played their first of The Big Five O shows with the (not so) secret show as The Barking Spiders at Anita’s Theatre in Wollongong.

Chrissie Hynde has announced the 'Hynde Sight' exhibition of her latest paintings.

Royal Mail today revealed images of a set of 12 Special Stamps being issued to celebrate one of the UK’s most innovative and influential bands of the rock and roll era, The Who.

Lauryn Hill has responded to her Fugees bandmate Pras Michel's fraud lawsuit.

Joan Armatrading has announced her new album 'How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean'.

Paul McCartney has performed the 2023 Beatles song ‘Now and Then’ for the first time at the first show of the 2024 ‘Got Back’ dates in South America.

Next time you are in New Orleans Bob Dylan recommends eating at Dooky Chase’s restaurant.

Houston attorney Tony Buzbee says, “many powerful people” will be taken down with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs after announcing that his law firm is representing 120 of Combs victims, one who was nine-years old when Combs’ alleged crimes were committed.

The Cowsills have recorded their second album of the 21st century with the upcoming ‘Global’ album featuring lots of special guests.

Joey Molland, the only surviving member of the classic Badfinger line-up, has a new song ‘Rainy Day Man’.

Singer and songwriter Martin Lee, iconic member of pop group Brotherhood of Man, has died aged 77.

This isn’t the first time I’ve said Kyle and Jackie O was the most expensive failure in radio history. I said it in July back when Kyle and Jackie O’s first full survey in Melbourne was more flaccid than what Kyle’s dick would be like if he ever went to a Diddy party. (well, if he ever went to one that is).