Anyone who had the opportunity to attend the screening of The Replacements doco "Colour Me Obsessed " this year at The Phoenix in Brunswick will understand what a jolly good news item this is.

Ah Yarraville, it's across the Westgate and has in the past suffered from lack of a huge variety of quality local live music enjoyed by other Melbournian locales. That's all gonna change with the Yarraville Club.

Every other state has sold out well in advance, however Soundwave have just announced that a final limited release of tickets will be available for Sydney, Adelaide and Perth.

After an eighteen month hiatus from playing gigs in Australia, the Cosmic Psychos are proud to announce a very special show at their 2nd home...The Tote.

If anybody's interested Deftones are giving away a download of their new song " Leathers" on their website.

Today Bluesfest, reveals the first of four lineup announcements for Easter 2013 (March 28 – April 1). The news is all good !

The ever busy Tex Perkins is back with fellow Dark Horses, Charlie Owen, Joel Silbersher, James Cruickshank, Murray Paterson, Stephen Hadley and Gus Agars with a new album and supporting tour.

San Francisco band Mr Loveless have just released a brand new video for their new single "Wild Summer."

The Musicmetric Digital Music Index records the trends and preferences of millions of music fans across the world and then analyses the data to reveal some pretty scary stuff.

The Los Angeles-based band behind the critically acclaimed debut album, Movies, THE STRIPMINERS announce the November 13 release of their sophomore record Frail Hope Ranch. THE STRIPMINERS are Brett Anderson, vocalist for rock & roll dynamos The Donnas, Paul Stinson from The Radishes, producer/guitarist Scrote (Daniel Johnston, Puscifer), Brett Simons (Brian Wilson, Fiona Apple, Melissa Etheridge) on bass, DJ Bonebrake (of X fame) on drums and Holland Greco (Anais Mitchell, The Peak Show) multi-instrumentalist, singer.

Previously unseen footage of The Sex Pistols playing “Holiday In The Sun” live at a gig in Penzance, Cornwall has surfaced after 35 years.

A lot of good things have turned the big 3-0 this year and Citadel Records is one of the best of them.

The headline grabbing duo of Jeff The Brotherhood have demanded the attention of punters around the world with their zippy, rock & roll live shows of which they have clocked in 400 in the last two years.

Legendary AC/DC singer Bon Scott will be honored by the town of in Kirriemuir in Scotland, where he was born and spent his early years of life.

Okay, so if you weren't keen on the whole box and dice of The Big Day Out a bunch of sideshows have been announced.

Sugar Mountain, Melbourne's boutique music and arts festival, will return to take over the Melbourne CBD in January 2013.

What do you get when you put together three chaps, a love of all good musical genres (make of that what you will) and sonic inspiration from big amps that will enable you to demolish some buildings or break yo mama's glassware.

Soundgarden will release King Animal, the band’s first new studio album in over 15 years on November 13th, 2012.

The phenomonally successful Coca - Cola campaign that encouraged punters to share a Coke with (insert any old name here) will expand to music file sharing.....with a Coke.

If you love Australian music then the Riverboats Music Festival will be one of the best value events you could attend this summer.