The BBC is working on an all-star release to mark the 40th anniversary of The Beatles 'Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band' this year.

Mark St. John, guitarist for Kiss for the mid-80's album 'Animalize' died this week at the age of 51 from a brain hemorrhage.

While not all unexpected, Bruce Springsteen fronted up on Thursday night for a tribute concert in his honor to raise funds for Music For Youth.

1n 1972, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, a couple of college friends who had been playing around in various bands, decided to form their own group. The name they chose was Steely Dan. It was a joke name. It came from the term for a dildo in the William Burroughs book 'Naked Lunch'. Becker and Fagen thought it was funny. Afterall, every other band they had been in only lasted a few months, so it wasn't as if the joke would last forever. Or was it? Steely Dan became one of the most successful acts on the planet, and here they are 35 years later and still called Steely Dan.

Steely Dan will tour Australia for the first time in September.

One fan of Alanis Morissette's Black Eyed Peas parody 'My Humps' is BEP singer Fergie.

Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie is to design a hangbag collection.

Patti Smith fans will have the chance to watch the legendary singer perform songs from her new album at the intimate location of the Bowery Ballroom in New York on April 24th.

Between September 19th and 21st, Berlin, Germany will become the centerpiece worldwide for the music industry with the 19th annual popKOMM music conference and festival.

Marlon Rowe, CEO for Big Cat Records, is a free man today after being released from prison after serving a 14-month sentence.

Hawaii's Jack Johnson is a surprise addition to the East Coast Blues and Roots Festival in Byron Bay this weekend.

The inaugural Point Nepean festival kicks off tomorrow in the Victorian town of Sorrento, outside Melbourne.

Australian acts will dominate showcases at the Musexpo conference in Los Angeles in late April.

Metal band Slayer has come up tops as a band who produces music for today's brightest youngsters.

Foo Fighters have signed a new long-term contract to stay with RCA Records.

The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation will hold the Tupac Amaru Shakur Film Festival in Atlanta in November and wants your film.

The Bacon Brothers Kevin and Michael, together with Charles Feldman, Chairman of the UJA-Federation Music for Youth, will sound the NASDAQ closing bell on Thursday to mark the all-star tribute to the music of Bruce Springsteen taking place at Carnegie Hall later that day.

Burbank studio facility and online music site Rehearsals.com will feature in a new channel to be created in association with the Joost network.

The newly reformed Crowded House are set to appear alongside rap legends Wu-Tang Clan and indie darlings The Shins at the Bumbershoot music and arts festival in Seattle.

A report from yesterday that Keith Richards had mixed some of his father's ashes up with some cocaine and snorted it has been quickly denied by the Rolling Stone.