The biggest tour ever to Australia, the return of music legends and albums that promise a new future. It's the year ahead and it looks packed.

You have never had a better reason to call Lord Mayor Graham Quirk.

Live music venue The Newtown Social Club has announced that it is closing its doors later this year, blaming the "current regulatory climate in Sydney" for making the business unsustainable.

Triple J's Hottest 100 countdown is on the horizon and the contest for top spot is heating up. With a group of Australians in the mix, it appears likely that there will be a historic fourth consecutive local winner of the annual Australia Day countdown.

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French composer and multi-instrumentalist Yann Tiersen wound a transportive tune across piano, violin, melodica and toy piano.

The movement to change the date of Australia Day has a second, pungent and focused anthem with a collaboration between many of the country's leading hip hop artists.

Last January, when interviewed by Vice Australia about his thoughts on Australia Day, Indigenous hip-hop artist Adam Briggs was unequivocal. "I pull the blinds and I shut everything down," he said.

Highly skilled musicians walked the audience through period music in a beautiful setting.

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All workplace deaths are tragic, but a death in the service of our entertainment seems especially so.

Kate Miller-Heidke kicks off a national tour of orchestra concerts in Melbourne on Saturday.

A new, original show from Victorian Opera promises a raucous history lesson on sex and showbiz.

"I only really have one famous song," Michael Rosenberg said. For the diehards, that's not true at all.

She was equal parts Bowie, Kate Bush and Bjork but also herself in a five-star show.

Kylie Minogue has revealed she plans to take her husband's name when she gets married.

A nine-strong, brass-laden backing band more than delivers the anthemic power of Harvey's latest album.

It's not enough just to listen to bands at Melbourne's Sugar Mountain Festival. Organisers engaged the audience's other senses at the Southbank event with a pop-up restaurant.

It wasn't about tragedy but about the way unity is strength, on stage and off, so that we were together, not alone.

No-one does it by themselves, especially not Springsteen.

Donald Trump won't be the first US leader to hear Bruce Springsteen deliver a powerful statement from an Australian stage.

A business manager for singer Alanis Morissette has admitted that he embezzled millions of dollars from the musician, then told her that he'd used the money to invest in marijuana grows, according to a federal court document filed Wednesday.

Just when it looked like Jamiroquai was set to become a distant string of dance floor anthems, the group have announced their first new music in seven years.

St Kilda Festival, Australian Music Prize shortlist, Rocket Science and more.

Paul McCartney has launched a lawsuit against Sony Corp's music publishing arm in a federal court in New York, seeking to get back the copyrights of some of the Beatles' most famous songs.