The Dead Daisies are going cruising throughout the Caribbean on the Norwegian Pearl with Kiss and Cheap Trick in November before returning to Australia for their own shows.

Sinéad O’Connor, Steve Poltz and Charlie Musselwhite together with Australia’s John Butler Trio, Christine Anu and The Black Sorrows will perform for the Port Fairy Folk Music Festival in 2015 in Victoria.

‘Hope For The Future’, a new song from Paul McCartney written for the computer game Destiny has popped put with little fanfare.

Crosby Stills Nash & Young is over as a touring band, according to Neil Young but David Crosby has gone further ruling out any more performances together.

Hamish Anderson is the Melbourne blues guitarist even B.B. King is taking notice of.

Ed Sheeran is again at the top of the ARIA Albums chart this week with “x”.

The Veronicas stay for a third week at No.1 on the ARIA Singles chart with their ballad “You Ruin Me”, which has now been newly certified ▲Platinum in sales after claiming Gold only last week.

Voting for the Melbourne Music Bank prize has been extended until October 19.

Australia’s comedy circuit has some of the world’s biggest names on show this week with Just For Laughs sideshows now happening all across the country.

The Amity Affrication guitarist and co-founder Troy Brady has quit the band.

Lorde has been parodied for a second time one week apart on South Park and she is quite happy about it.

Pink Floyd have released ‘Louder Than Words’, the first song from their upcoming album ‘The Endless River’.

Ed Sheeran has the fasting selling tour of Australia and New Zealand for 2015 with more than 150,000 tickets sold across 11 shows so far.

James Reyne will tour Australia as special guest of Rod Stewart on his March 2015 tour.

Palace Of The King is a serious rock band. Like Jet, Wolfmother and Airbourne before them, this is the next Australian rock band to watch.

In the past 24 hours the music world has paid its respects to writer, author and lyricist Ed Nimmervoll who passed away on Friday after a battle with brain cancer.

Neil Young is back on tour for some acoustic shows across America and has started to add songs from his upcoming ‘Storytone’ album to his set.

Jack White is still in promo mode for this ‘Lazaretto’ album this week and cruised by the Ellen Degeneres Show for a few songs and to reveal his new look.

Tim Wheatley will return to Australia for shows with Ryan Bingham and his own shows over the next two weeks.

Sarah McLachlan will return to Australia for shows in February 2015.

The Pink and Dallas Green collaboration You+Me leads this weeks new releases with Bryan Adams, Jessie J and Little May.

On iHeartRadio Music News, powered by Noise11.com, you will hear the new AC/DC song 'Play Ball' as well as new music from the all star The Impossible Orchestra covering the Brian Wilson classic 'God Only Knows' with Brian.

Taylor Swift has performed a version of Vance Joy’s ‘Riptide’ for the BBC Live Lounge.

Australian music journalist Ed Nimmervoll has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 67.

Neil Young recorded his new album ‘Storytone’ live in the studio with a 92-piece orchestra.

The new Pink Floyd album ‘The Endless River’ is the continuation of their last album from 1994 ‘The Division Bell’.

72-year old physicist Stephen Hawking will feature on the upcoming Pink Floyd album ‘The Endless Road’.

Train dates have been revealed for Sydney and Melbourne in April 2015.

Antony Partos and Cezary Skubiszewski lead the nominations for the Screen Music Awards to take place in Sydney on November 27.

Courtney Barnett will be the artist to watch in coming months after winning the Best Independent Artist award at the Independent Music Awards in Melbourne on Wednesday night.