Kesha has released her first solo song in four years, with a brand new album on the horizon.

He is hip-hop royalty, a cultural icon and legendary party boy, but now Puff wants to make the world a better place.

A Swedish women's-only festival is on the cards after the country's biggest music festival was scrapped following rape allegations and reports of dozens of sexual assaults.

In beautifully thoughtful playing, Orli Shaham created her own wordless context for this music.

Animal rights activists slammed a line where Perry tells her dog to "go chase some koalas".

Melvins and Redd Kross bring a double dose of rock 'n' roll to Australia in November.

Owners of a Brunswick live music venue fear noise complaints from a proposed next door apartment block.

Arts news and events in Canberra.

It's like something out of a Paul McCartney song – the most bitter of enemies coming together over the power of music (and a potential chart hit).

Ainslie Wills returns from successful UK tour to play first local headline shows since 2015.

Jay-Z bares his soul; Calvin Harris starts to look beyond 4/4; Haim play to their strengths; Eloquence re-releases the "beautiful" voice of Heinz Rehfuss.

An "arcane form" is brought back to life and made to resonate with modern audiences by Simon Tedeschi and John Bell.

Organisers of Sweden's biggest music festival Bravalla have cancelled next year's dates after a spate of sexual assaults at this year's event.

The Undertones' song Teenage Kicks keeps on kicking after four decades.

Broken Social Scene's seven-year hiatus ends with a welcome Hug of Thunder.

Kardajala Kirridarra's electronic Indigenous soundscape is the music of dreams.

Paul McCartney has announced new shows for his Australian tour before general tickets have even gone on sale.

The brewing feud between the world's two biggest rappers has taken another hit, with Kanye West departing Jay-Z's Tidal music streaming service.

One of the most personal revelations in the album appeared in the third track, Smile, in which Gloria Carter comes out publicly as lesbian.

In healthy shape, the orchestra worked through the score's six wide-ranging landscapes.

Chinese pianist Yuja Wang showed considerable growth in artistic maturity since her last performance.

Singer Adele has cancelled the last two sell-out shows of her world tour due to take place at London's Wembley Stadium this weekend after damaging her vocal cords.

Billy McFarland, the entrepreneur behind the Fyre Festival was arrested by federal agents at his home in Manhattan on Friday and charged with one count of wire fraud.

Australian singer Roseanne Park is now known as Rosé to millions, after an audition catapulted her into chart-topping K-pop girl group BlackPink.