The full orchestra triumphed in a Melbourne-only concert.

Marilyn Manson will no longer perform with his longtime bassist Twiggy Ramirez.

Fats Domino, one of the most influential rock and roll performers of the 1950s and 60s, has died aged 89.

Veteran Australian rock music promoter Michael Coppel signed on for Pink's first Australian tour off the plan.

New Zealand's High Court has awarded Eminem $535,000 in damages after the country's National party was found to have breached the US rapper's copyright.

Last night Opera Australia's much-loved production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly was wheeled out for its final season. Since its premiere in 1997 at the Sydney Opera House the poetic simplicity and bold lines of NIDA graduates Peter England and Russell Cohen have been the setting for many a triumph.

The band has reached a "this will be great" phase.

The veteran English DJ and broadcaster has given the classic sounds of Ibiza a new purpose with the help of a 65-piece band and orchestra.

The announcement of a day-long outdoor music event featuring 30 international acts suggests that the appetite for genre-crossing festivals might be returning.

Bach's uncharacteristically silly Coffee Cantata will form one part of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra's concert series, Bittersweet Obsessions.

Grace Jones is coming to Australia in February next year. 

This Belgian composer masters the rare and airy art of lacing rhythm with melody

She once claimed that she did not need to take off her clothes to sell records - but Taylor Swift has employed a little creative ambiguity to stick to that message.

With Beatlemania​ breaking across the world in 1964, five teens at Villawood Migrant Hostel had Beatle dreams.

George Young wasn't a big talker. But he did eventually get around to his emails, writes Michael Dwyer.

AC/DC said in a statement the band would not exist without George Young's "help and guidance".

Smoke, pyrotechnics, confetti, and flaming drumsticks – behold the outdoor rave, Chainsmokers style. 

Brilliant animations accompany a sweeping, whimsical expression of Stephin Merritt's life and observations.

With wild hair and brightly coloured socks, his tall frame hunched over the piano, Piers Lane captured insouciance, enervated melancholy and imaginative musical shape in the opening melody of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3.

The most distinctive thing about Saturday night's Chainsmokers show was its lack of distinction.

The room is dark and then – suddenly – the eyes on the curtain dramatically light up, changing from white to red as a familiar voice says, "You have been chosen to spend the night with Alice Cooper."

At the end of Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles, the Tenebrae singers enjoyed a standing ovation from a respectably-sized house.

Promoting contemporary American piano music, Arciuli is close to indefatigable.

Looking to catch some great music in a relaxed, country environment? The Kyneton Music Festival in central Victoria this weekend might be just the ticket.