The Rolling Stones opened their 14 on Fire tour on Friday night with their first performance ever in the United Arab Emirates.

Production on Gregg Allman's biopic 'Midnight Rider' has come to a halt after a train went through the set while filming, killing one crew member.

The Fratellis will return to Australia for the first time since 2008.

Beck has the biggest album of the week in this week's new releases list.

Green Day slipped a secret show into their Australian visit with a surprise performance in Sydney on Thursday night.

Bo Ningen from Japan will head to the UK in May.

A major new exhibition of music memorabilia, featuring David Bowie's ripped Ziggy Stardust shirt, will take place in honour of the historic British music venue Aylesbury Friars from Monday March 1st.

Fans of Marc Bolan and Top of the Pops are in for a real treat on 3 March when exclusive footage of the legendary star Marc Bolan performing Teenage Dream on Top of the Pops on 7 February 1974 resurfaces for the first time on a CD/DVD collection which includes Tanx and Alloy And The Riders of Tomorrow/A Creamed Cage.

Leon Russell will release his first solo album since 2006, Life Journey, on April 1, the day before his 72nd birthday.

Eminem supports 50 Cent's departure from Shady/Aftermath.

Ten album by Bruce Springsteen have been remastered for iTunes including, for the first time, transfer from analog to digital masters.

The late-Gerry Rafferty will be honored in his hometown of Paisley, Scotland this April as part of the Bring It On Home festival.

The full catalog of legendary crooner Dean Martin while at Reprise Records (1962 to 1974) has been acquired by Legacy Recordings who has initiated a reissue project.

Prince has played London.

Bette Midler has never performed at the Oscars. That will change this year.

Elvis Costello and the Roots once said that their show last September at Brooklyn Bowl was a one-time only event. Luckily, they were wrong.

David Bowie completed one of the most unexpected comebacks ever on Wednesday night taking home the Best British Male Vocalist award at the BRITS.

Sergio Mendes has left Concord Records, where he released his last three albums, for OKeh Records, an imprint of Sony.

Mariah Carey refuses to rush her new album.

Spandau Ballet will play a show on March 12 at this year's SXSW in Austin, TX.

The SXSW music conference and festival in Austin, Texas has revealed a superstar line-up with Coldplay, Willie Nelson and Keith Urban some of the names added to the event.

Jimmy Barnes enticed old pal Steve Van Zandt into the studio to help him out on a new song this week.

Eminem has arrived in Australia and he kicked off the first show for his curated Rapture tour at Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium on Wednesday night.

The Cat Empire will celebrate their 1000th show with a free concert in hometown Melbourne on March 21.

Bruce Springsteen’s first Sydney concert on Wednesday night was a Australian Oz Rock classic feast with covers from The Easybeats, INXS as well as his previously recorded Saints cover and a Johnny O’Keefe classic.

Robbie Williams will return to Australia for dates in September but once again Adelaide has been left out of the tour.

Lady Gaga will visit Australia in August but Adelaide has not been included on the tour.

INXS look like having the number one album again this week with thanks to the Never Tear Us Apart TV documentary.

Ella Hooper will take the songs from her first solo album ‘In Tongues’ on the road.

Newsted is the latest act to pull-out of Soundwave.