The Smithereens

The Metallica M72 World Tour is officially into its third year with the first date for 2025 now played out of Syracruse, New York.

Peter McIan, the producer for Men At Work’s two classic albums ‘Business As Usual’ (1981) and ‘Cargo’ (1983), has passed away.

Daryl Hall and Glenn Tilbrook have added a stack of new dates which now sees the tour going through to November.

Metallica will rock the 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Kimble Rendall, a founding member of Hoodoo Gurus and before that XL Capris, has died at the age of 67.

On December 7, 1980 Willie Nile and John Lennon were recording at The Record Plant studio in New York City when engineer Thom Panunzio called saying, “John broke a string on his guitar. Do you have any extra strings?"

Toto’s 2025 setlist focuses on the heritage of the band. The setlist was interesting. Compared to how it was curated for Australia in 2019 this time Toto kept to the albums of the 1900s. Mind you, there were no complaints from the audience for doing that. The biggest hits came from those early years.