With tickets to Adele's first Brisbane show on March 4 selling out in 30 minutes, tour promoters released tickets for another show on March 5.

Selena Gomez, 24, took the stage to accept the award for favourite pop/rock female artist, and delivered a rather captivating speech.

Andrew Norman's Try was the stand-out work performed by the SSO ensemble under the direction of Brett Dean.

Melbourne musician and former Redgum member Hugh McDonald has died aged 62, after a long battle with cancer.

Singers have long been troubled by the depiction of African-American people in Porgy and Bess.

"I reject Donald Trump's mission of America. I'll be damned if I allow any election to tear us down."

Alpha Gregory's many years maintaining the high standards of the choir have been recognised by the Canberra Critics' Circle.

Adele fans around the country are demanding answers after being left empty-handed by Ticketek and Ticketmaster websites which buckling under phenomenal demand.

With tickets to Adele's Melbourne show on March 18 selling out in just over 30 minutes, tour promoters have announced a second show for the city.

He came, he ranted... he left.

With no pre-sale for Adele's first national tour, demand on Monday morning will be even more intense, but you can arm yourself with these nine tips.

Finally, the album of the show fans waited 30 years to see from one of the reclusive giants of pop music.

This week's symphony roundup.

The boom in celebrity memorabilia is bigger than ever.

Sharon Jones, the big-voice soul singer who found fame in middle age, has died.

This final show feels more like their reward for their whole career so far.

The love and devotion developed in the '80s and sealed in the '90s returns to the harbour city for one more outpouring.

Like something from Alice In Wonderland, the ARIAs – Australia's premier music awards – you are whatever genre you say you are, even if it makes no sense.

Curator at the National Film and Sound Archive Karen Hewitt on Kylie, Banarama and working in London's 'Hit Factory'.

Collingwood has a lot of cachet in Melbourne, but Bruce Springsteen remains "The Boss."

When Leonard Cohen's family announced last week that he had died at 82, it gave no cause. Although the poet and songwriter had been open about his failing health in recent months, fans knew little other than what The New Yorker reported in its weekly radio show, that Cohen had been battling cancer.

Includes Lars Ulrich on a Fisher Price drum, of course.

Though the MSO players were novices with this rarity, their interpretation proved confident and remarkably free of miscalculations.

International opera star Sumi Jo has arrived in Canberra for recently moved - but not renamed - Voices in the Forest.