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Will There Be Another Guns N Roses Album This Year
Oh Laura, the Undercover MySpace Indie Act of the Day
Aussie Music Industry Gathers For Linda Gebar
Andre Rieu Second Only To Madonna For Ticket Sales
Cat Stevens Sends A Message of Peace To Children
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December 2008 until current
 | Will There Be Another Guns N Roses Album This Year There may be another Guns N Roses album this year if you read between the lines in the recent Axl Rose web chats. MORE 1/05/2009 |
 | Oh Laura, the Undercover MySpace Indie Act of the Day If you have heard the Saab ad then you have heard Oh Laura. Their song `Release Me` was the soundtrack for the ad. MORE 1/05/2009 |
 | Aussie Music Industry Gathers For Linda Gebar On January 18, the Australian Music Industry will come together for a tribute show for the late Linda Gebar. MORE 1/04/2009 |
 | Andre Rieu Second Only To Madonna For Ticket Sales Andre Rieu was the second biggest ticket seller in the world last month. His shows out of Australia in November grossed more money than anyone except for Madonna. MORE 1/04/2009 |
 | Cat Stevens Sends A Message of Peace To Children Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) has spoken out with a message of peace for the children of the world, citing one of his old songs `Oh Very Young` as part of his message. MORE 1/04/2009 |
 | Gabriella Cilmi Scores A SXSW Gig Gabriella Cilmi will showcase at SXSW in Austin in March. MORE 1/04/2009 |
 | Nick Cave Exhibits Louis Wain for ATP Nick Cave has chosen to exhibit the work of Louis Wain for All Tomorrow`s Parties. MORE 1/04/2009 |
 | Annie Lennox Steps Up Campaign To Stop Middle East War Eurythmics star Annie Lennox is continuing her campaign to stop the war in the Middle East by going to the media and stating her plea. MORE 1/04/2009 |
 | Iggy Pop Fronts A Car Insurance Ad Hell has frozen over. Iggy Pop is doing a car insurance commercial across the UK. MORE 1/04/2009 |
 | Fergie Shapes Up For Wedding Fergie plans on having the perfect figure for her wedding this weekend. MORE 1/04/2009 |
 | Brandon Flowers Gets Out The Library Card Brandon Flowers has become a book worm. MORE 1/04/2009 |
 | Tom Jones and Robbie Williams Duet Robbie has done it with Nicole Kidman. Now he is going to do it with Tom Jones. MORE 1/04/2009 |
 | Katy Perry and Travis McCoy Split Katy Perry is not longer kissing a boy. Well, at least not Travis McCoy. MORE 1/04/2009 |
 | Even, the Undercover MySpace Act of the Day There is nothing too complicated about the Even formula. In fact, it is the simplicity that makes them so damn appealing. MORE 1/03/2009 |
 | Paul Weller Pissed In Prague Paul Weller found himself on the wrong side of the law after a few too many beverages in Prague recently. MORE 1/03/2009 |
 | Peter Andre Wants An 09 Comeback Peter Andre wants to make a great album this year. MORE 1/02/2009 |
 | Robert Plant CBE Led Zep singer Robert Plant has been honored by the Queen. MORE 1/02/2009 |
 | Coolio Joins Celebrity Big Brother Coolio and an ex-Suagabe are about to become reality stars. MORE 1/02/2009 |
 | Status Quo Beat Take That Take that Take That, Status Quo have beaten you in a poll. MORE 1/02/2009 |
 | Britney Boyfriend Meets The Parents Britney has taken Sandip home to meet the family. MORE 1/02/2009 |
 | Bjork To Save Iceland Iceland has a new superhero and her name is Bjork. MORE 1/02/2009 |
 | Martin Hints At A New Sound For Coldplay Could Coldplay about to completely change their sound? MORE 1/02/2009 |
 | BREAKING NEWS: Son Of John Travolta Dies, Aged 16 John Travolta`s 16 year old son Jett has died from a seizure while on holiday with his family in the Bahamas. MORE 1/02/2009 |
 | Jackie Bristow, the Undercover MySpace Indie Act of the Day Jackie Bristow is an example of how by putting in the work, you end up with the results. MORE 1/01/2009 |
 | The Undercover Top 20 Stories of 2008 What a year. We lost Heath Ledger and Richard Wright. We got a new AC/DC album. Chinese Democracy was released, Travis Barker was in a plane crash and we revisited an old interview with George Harrison. Here are the Top 20 stories in Undercover for 2008. MORE 1/01/2009 |
 | Electric Mary, the Undercover MySpace Indie Act of the Day Real rock exists in Electric Mary, the Melbourne stalwart band featuring Uncle Rusty on vocals, Pete Robinson on guitar and vocals, Irwin Thomas on guitar and vocals, Fox Fagen on bass and vocals and Venom on drums. MORE 12/31/2008 |
 | Radiohead Had The LP Of The Year The good old 12-inch vinyl album made a comeback in 2008 with Radiohead topping the LP chart. MORE 12/31/2008 |
 | Music Sales Exceed 1.5 Billion Music sales have topped 1.5 billion units for the first time ever in the USA. MORE 12/31/2008 |
 | Rock Rocks 2008 139,666,000 rock albums sold in the USA during the past year, fuelled in part by AC/DC, Metallica and Kid Rock. MORE 12/31/2008 |
 | Taylor Swift Was The Biggest Selling Artist of 2008 Taylor Swift sold more music than anyone else in 2008 in the USA. MORE 12/31/2008 |
 | Lil Wayne Has Biggest Album of 08 Lil Wayne `The Carter III` was the biggest selling album of 2008 in the USA, shifting 2,874,000 units. MORE 12/31/2008 |
 | Courtney Love Rocks 08 Out With Her Cock Out Courtney Love has compiled another party mix for getting out of one year and into another. MORE 12/31/2008 |
 | Lloyd Cole To Release Everything Else Stating the obvious, Lloyd Cole has released all of his albums. Now he is going to release everything else, four CDs of the songs that didn’t make the albums. MORE 12/30/2008 |
| Jackie Bristow Moves To Austin Kiwi singer/songwriter Jackie Bristow has made Austin her home. MORE 12/30/2008 |
| The Cherry Bar Re-Opens Not even a few burnt dinners by Jamie Oliver could hold back the Cherry Bar. After a fire destroyed Jamie Oliver`s Melbourne office upstairs from the bar earlier this year, the Cherry Bar is open for business from tonight. MORE 12/30/2008 |
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 | Moby wanted to be a scientist Moby wanted to be a scientist when he was a child. MORE 12/29/2008 |
 | Liam Gallagher hailed as one of the sexiest men alive Eva Mendes thinks Liam Gallagher is one of the sexiest men alive. MORE 12/29/2008 |
 | Dizzy Reed To Play Cat Club Allstar New Years Eve Party Former Guns n` Roses member Dizzy Reed will be one of the all-stars performing at the Cat Club on Sunset Blvd on New Year`s Eve. MORE 12/29/2008 |
 | Elan Completes Fifth Album Elan will follow-up this years `Shine` album with `Lost and Found`, her fifth album. MORE 12/29/2008 |
 | Andre Rieu DVD and CD is Forth Biggest Seller Of The Year Maestro Andre Rieu has done the unthinkable. His `Live In Australia` CD and DVD has become the forth biggest selling music item of 2008 in Australia. MORE 12/28/2008 |
 | New Music From Jagger There will be new music from a Jagger in 2009 and we don`t mean Mick. Jade Jagger, the daughter of the Rolling Stones lead lungs, has a music thing going on. MORE 12/28/2008 |
 | Annie Lennox Calls Gaza A Pornography of Destruction Annie Lennox has called the actions of the Israeli Army over the last few days “a pornography of destruction” and says that the situation will only lead to more violence. MORE 12/28/2008 |
 | Lou Reed Forms A New Band Lou Reed has formed a trio called Best Seat In The House. MORE 12/28/2008 |
 | Be Seen, Be Heard, Befriend Undercover On MySpace In 2009, Undercover`s new music commitment is to feature one new act a day. MORE 12/27/2008 |
 | Delaney Bramlett Dead At 69 Delaney Bramlett, a friend and fellow musician with greats such as Eric Clapton and George Harrison, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 69. MORE 12/27/2008 |
 | Diddy Wants Wants To Turn New York Ball Into A Publicity Stunt The Diddy bribe of $1 million for the City of New York if they let him redesign the New Year Ball sounds like nothing more than a blatant publicity stunt. MORE 12/27/2008 |
| Courtney Love Tells PETA To Fuck Off Courtney has taken time to tell animal rights group PETA to go stick its head up a dead bears bum. MORE 12/27/2008 |
 | The Rascals To Play A Freebie The Rascals will play a free show tonight for the people of Liverpool. MORE 12/27/2008 |
| Undercover Searches MySpace For New Music Every day in 2009, Undercover will be searching through our MySpace friends looking for the Indie Act of the Day. MORE 12/25/2008 |
 | Eartha Kitt Died On Christmas Day Singer and actress and genuine star Eartha Kitt has died of colon cancer at the age of 81. MORE 12/25/2008 |
| AC/DC Passes 2 Millions Sales In The USA AC/DC `Black Ice` has been one of the biggest sellers in the world this year and in America, it has now passed the benchmark 2x platinum. MORE 12/23/2008 |
 | Coldplay Hand Out A Christmas Present Coldplay are giving away a new remix of `Viva La Vida` by Thin White Duke at their official website. MORE 12/23/2008 |
 | Guns N Roses Chris Pitman Forms Band With Walter Kronkite SexTapes / Guns n` Roses member Chris Pitman has a new band and a old frontman Walter Kronkite. MORE 12/23/2008 |
 | Mark Ronson Throws A Christmas Mix Tape At You Mark Ronson has put a Christmas mix tape online, just in time for the holidays. MORE 12/23/2008 |
 | Madness To Release New Album Madness will continue their backtogetheragainess with another a new album in 2009. MORE 12/23/2008 |
 | The Faces Will Do A Gig Or Two Faces keyboard player Ian McLagan has confirmed that rehearsals for The Faces reunion in 2009 went well. MORE 12/23/2008 |
 | Vanessa Amorosi Had The Most Played Song Of The Year 2008 was a `perfect` year for Vanessa Amorosi. Her song `Perfect` was the most played song on Australian radio this year. MORE 12/22/2008 |
 | U2 Album To Come In 5 Formats The 12th U2 album `No Line On The Horizon` will be available in 5 different formats. MORE 12/22/2008 |
 | Gilli Moon Releases Christmas Download US based Aussie singer songwriter Gilli Moon has released a song for Christmas. MORE 12/22/2008 |
 | Digital Sales Pass 1 Billion In 2008 So the music industry is in trouble. Not according to figures for released for download sales in 2008. More than 1 billion digital songs were purchased during 2008. MORE 12/22/2008 |
 | Michael Jackson Spokesman Dismisses Health Issues After a week of Michael Jackson being on death`s door, his spokesperson Dr. Tohme Tohme has issued a statement calling the stories complete bullshit. MORE 12/22/2008 |
 | Warner Exit YouTube Warner Music have pulled thousands of videos from YouTube. MORE 12/22/2008 |
 | The Darkness Might Get Back Together The Darkness might reunite for an album and tour. MORE 12/22/2008 |
 | Springsteen, Young and Blur To Play Glastonbury Glastonbury may have its biggest year every next year. MORE 12/22/2008 |
 | Carl Barat, Regrets He`s Had A Few Carl Barat has some regrets about Dirty Pretty Things. He says they were too idealistic. MORE 12/22/2008 |
| Scotland Wants To Honour AC/DC A Scottish politician wants to claim ownership of AC/DC. MORE 12/22/2008 |
 | Rick Wakeman Gets Back With His Six Wives Rick Wakeman will revive his classic `Six Wives Of Henry VIII` in concert next May. MORE 12/22/2008 |
 | Mother Of Robbie Williams Has Heart Surgery Robbie Williams` 67-year old mother Jan is recovering from heart bypass surgery. MORE 12/22/2008 |
 | Kings Of Leon Is Still The Year`s Biggest Kings Of Leon `Only By The Night` has maintained its lead as biggest selling album of 2008 so far, but we may be in for a photo finish. MORE 12/22/2008 |
 | Wes Carr Let Down By The Downloads Wes Carr dropped from the number one spot on the Aussie singles chart this week because his downloads were not strong enough. MORE 12/21/2008 |
 | Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen Is One and Two In The UK Leonard Cohen has created British chart history today with his song `Hallelujah` coming in at number one and two on the singles chart. MORE 12/21/2008 |
 | Cobra Starship Frontman Speaks Up For PETA Gabe Saporta from Cobra Starship says Don't Let Your Honey Wear a Bunny. MORE 12/21/2008 |
| Mark Ronson Wants To Get Back With Amy Winehouse Mark Ronson can`t wait to start working with Amy Winehouse again. MORE 12/21/2008 |
 | Jennifer Lopez Marriage On The Rocks The marriage of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony has been described as reaching the point of no return. MORE 12/21/2008 |
 | Robbie Williams Wants To Dance Robbie Williams wants to be in the next season of Strictly Come Dancing. MORE 12/21/2008 |
| Andre Rieu Live In Australia Moves 106k Units Andre Rieu has slaughtered everything in his path on the Australian chart this week after selling 106,606 units of `Live In Australia` on CD and DVD. MORE 12/21/2008 |
 | Andre Rieu Earns 100 Platinum Awards In Australia Pink may have sold 400,000 tickets and Kings Of Leon might have the biggest selling album of the year but the biggest selling artist of 2008 in Australia was Andre Rieu. MORE 12/19/2008 |
 | Jet Unveil The Seven Newbies Jet gave a sneak preview of seven new songs at their intimate pub gig in hometown Melbourne this week. MORE 12/19/2008 |
 | Kylie Drops The Hits And Puts On The Show Kylie Minogue came home to Melbourne last night for the last three shows of her KylieX2008 and dazzled her fans with a show she has made her own. MORE 12/19/2008 |
 | Take That Album To Sell One Million Plus Take That `The Circus` will sell more than one million units in the UK before Christmas. MORE 12/19/2008 |
 | A Message From The Reverend Jack White Jack White says concerts are like church. MORE 12/19/2008 |
 | Amy Winehouse Addiction Is TV If you are looking for Amy Winehouse, look no further than in front of her TV. She is addicted to a new TV show. MORE 12/19/2008 |
 | Fergie is About To Marry Stacey Ferguson will become Stacey Duhamel next month. Fergie will marry actor Josh Duhamel in January. MORE 12/19/2008 |
 | Van Morrison Goes Live For EMI The live performance of the `Astral Weeks`, recorded by Van Morrison from the Hollywood Bowl last month, will be released through EMI. MORE 12/18/2008 |
 | 12th U2 Album Due March U2 will release their 12th album `No Line On The Horizon` on March 3rd. MORE 12/18/2008 |
| Leona Lewis Gets PETA Award And the PETA Person of the Year goes to (drum roll please) Leona Lewis. MORE 12/18/2008 |
 | Whitney Houston Sued By Step-Mother Whitney Houston`s step-mother wants her to cough up some bucks. MORE 12/18/2008 |
 | Lindsay Lohan Attacked By Nutter Lindsay Lohan has been attacked by a crazed fan. MORE 12/18/2008 |
 | Akon Cops A Guilty Charge Akon has been found guilty of harrassment. The Hip-Hop star threw a teenage fan off stage during a concert and ended up in court. MORE 12/18/2008 |
 | Jason Singh Signs With Neon Former Taxiride/Future Role Models frontman Jason Singh will have a new sound in the New Year. He has signed a deal with Neon. MORE 12/17/2008 |
 | Coldplay Joe Satriani Comparison Video Pulled Off YouTube The video demonstrating the comparison between Coldplay`s `Viva La Vida` and Joe Satriani`s ‘If I Could Fly` has been taken off YouTube. MORE 12/17/2008 |
 | Brett Goldsmith Debuts Songs On Myspace Melbourne singer/songwriter Brett Goldsmith has been throwing down a few tunes in the studio this year and has put them up on Myspace. MORE 12/17/2008 |
| Anthony Kiedis Suffers Kidney Failure The reason for the lack of activity from Red Hot Chili Peppers` this year may have been because singer Anthony Kiedis was battling kidney disease. MORE 12/17/2008 |
 | Rare AC/DC, Jeff Buckley Nick Cave Posters Go On Sale Rock Prints, a collection of rare and limited edition posters, is back in Melbourne this weekend. MORE 12/17/2008 |
 | Howe, Squire and White Take Yes Show To Mexico Steve Howe, Chris Squire and Alan White might not quite add up to 100% Yes but the shows are doing well. MORE 12/17/2008 |
 | At Least Madonna And Guy Ritchie Can Agree On A Statement Madonna and Guy Ritchie have issued a joint statement stating everything you have read in the last week about them has been misleading. MORE 12/17/2008 |
 | Prepare for Guitar Hero Metallica Metallica Guitar Hero will come out in 2009. MORE 12/17/2008 |
 | Lily Allen Almost Did Take That Lily Allen and Take That came very close to recording a song together. MORE 12/17/2008 |
 | Coldplay Split Up, Often Coldplay have revealed that they have broken up on more than half a dozen occasions. MORE 12/17/2008 |
 | Lily Allen Covers Britney Spears, Listen Here Lily Allen has thrown a cover of Britney Spears `Womanizer` on the net. MORE 12/16/2008 |
 | Brian Johnson To Heal You In Hospital AC/DC singer Brian Johnson has had a hospital room named after him. MORE 12/16/2008 |
| Leonard Cohen May Create UK Chart Record Next Week Leonard Cohen may become the first songwriter ever to occupy the top 2 spots of the singles chart in the UK with the same song. MORE 12/16/2008 |
 | Cog, Laura Imbruglia Do Something Difrnt Cog and Laura Imbruglia are just two of the artists to feature on `Difrnt Compilation`, an iTunes only release from the Difrnt label. MORE 12/16/2008 |
 | Guns n Roses Chinese Democracy Departs Top 30 After just three weeks, Guns n` Roses much hyped `Chinese Democracy` looks like falling out of the Top 30 in the USA this week. MORE 12/16/2008 |
 | Eddie Van Halen Has A New Guitar Eddie Van Halen will launch a new guitar for Fender next month. MORE 12/16/2008 |
 | Morrissey Album Due Feb The new Morrissey alum `Years of Refusal` will be released on February 14. MORE 12/16/2008 |
 | Kiss To Make New Album There may be a new Kiss album next year, their first in 11 years MORE 12/16/2008 |
| Robbie Williams Screws EMI Robbie Williams has started a bidding war for his next album, despite grabbing megabucks from EMI in his last big deal. MORE 12/16/2008 |
 | No Smiths Says Marr What a surprise, the Smiths are not getting back together. MORE 12/16/2008 |
 | Britney Back With K-Fed Could Kevin Federline be back in Britney`s Spears` life? MORE 12/16/2008 |
 | No More Smashing Pumpkins Albums Zeitgeist may very well be the last ever Smashing Pumpkins album. MORE 12/16/2008 |
| Jeff Buckley Best Of Gets A Make-Over Jeff Buckley`s `So Real` will be reissued in January, off the back of the success of `Hallelujah` this year. MORE 12/16/2008 |
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 | Abba To Take Museum On Tour You won’t see Abba on tour in 2009 but you will see their clothes. The Abba Museum, containing 750 items is going to go on the road. MORE 12/15/2008 |
 | The Music, The Fratellis, Ben Lee Go To Uni Australia will have a festival with a difference in 2009. The Big O festival, featuring The Music, Ben Lee and the Fratellis will take place at universities. MORE 12/15/2008 |
 | Pearl Jam to Release Ten The Game Pearl Jam have done a deal with Harmonix to make their debut album `Ten` into a game for Rock Band. MORE 12/15/2008 |
 | Eva Mendes Want To Get It Off With Morrissey Eva Mendes has sent the challenge out to Morrissey. She wants him to strip with her for PETA. MORE 12/15/2008 |
 | Snoop Dogg Raps Up Christmas Present Snoop Dogg has produced a Christmas album. MORE 12/15/2008 |
 | Jennifer Hudson Cancels Shoot Jennifer Hudson has pulled out of making a new video because she says it is still too early to get back to work MORE 12/15/2008 |
 | Stone Roses To Get Back Together With all the talk of a Smiths` reunion, it is only timely that a Stone Roses one hits as well. MORE 12/15/2008 |
 | Kanye West and the SNL F**K Up Kanye West fans heard what their star really sounds like thanks to an AutoTune malfunction on Saturday Night Live on the weekend. MORE 12/14/2008 |
| Gabriella Cilmi To Teach Americans Lessons After her amazing success in both Australia and the UK during 2008, Gabriella Cilmi has 2009 set aside for the USA. MORE 12/14/2008 |
 | Ho Ho Ho From INXS INXS sent their fans an early Christmas present over the weekend, a “new” album. MORE 12/14/2008 |
 | Axl Rose Is Back Online A Third Time Axl Rose has gone online for a third time in as many days, and finally explains fully why he uses the name Guns n` Roses. MORE 12/14/2008 |
| Andre Rieu Thanks Aussie Fans Andre Rieu has sent a message to his fans in Australia for making his `Live In Australia` DVD number 1. MORE 12/14/2008 |
 | Kings Of Leon Maintains 2008 Lead With just two and a hit weeks to go until the end of the year, Kings Of Leon looks like maintaining enough of a gap each week to keep Pink from the top spot for 2008. However, Metallica is about to drop from the top 5. MORE 12/14/2008 |
 | Axl Rose Blames Downloads For Lack Of CD Sales Axl Rose has conducted his second online chat in a week, this time heading to the forum at chinesedemocracy.com to answer a few questions where he blamed the lack of sales for the `Chinese Democracy` album on illegal downloads and the greed of the record industry. MORE 12/14/2008 |
 | Billy Joel Records Christmas Song In Australia Billy Joel used his final Australian show in Sydney last Thursday to record a new Christmas song `Christmas In Fallujah`. MORE 12/14/2008 |
| Wesbians Push Wes Carr To Number One It has been a three-week trek to the top of the charts for Idol winner Wes Carr but this week he finally made it. MORE 12/14/2008 |
| Andre Rieu Does A Pink Floyd Andre Rieu has become the first artist since Pink Floyd to outsell the number one album with a DVD. MORE 12/14/2008 |
 | It`s Another Hanson Congrats to Taylor Hanson and wife Natalie on the birth of their 4th child. MORE 12/13/2008 |
| AC/DC Stretch The Roster To June AC/DC has extended the Black Ice tour to Europe and until the end of June. MORE 12/13/2008 |
 | Jay Sean Signs With Cash Money UK R&B star Jay Sean is the latest act to sign with New Orleans label Cash Money. MORE 12/13/2008 |
 | Kevin Rudolf Pops Over To Daryl Hall`s House Kevin Rudolf is this month’s guest on Live From Daryl`s House, Daryl Hall`s online TV show. MORE 12/13/2008 |
 | A Second Twilight Is On The Way Filmmaker Chris Weitz has been chosen to direct the second instalment of the `Twilight` franchise, to be called `New Moon`’. MORE 12/13/2008 |
 | Dizzee Rascal Arrested for Carrying Baseball Bat Dizzee Rascal has been nabbed for swinging a baseball bat. MORE 12/13/2008 |
 | Hall & Oates Sing Hannity Out Via The Daily Show So `the left`s` Alan Colmes is leaving his Bush-loving friend Sean Hannity on Fox, hey. Colmes, the token liberal on the Fox Network, was serenaded off his show by Hall & Oates who visited the Daily Show to play their tune for John Stewart. MORE 12/12/2008 |
 | Bono Named 2009 Man Of Peace U2 singer Bono has accepted the Nobel Man of Peace prize in Paris. MORE 12/12/2008 |
 | JD Fortune Album In Imminent The JD Fortune album cannot be far off. A website went live this week for `The Death Of A Motivational Speaker’. MORE 12/12/2008 |
 | U2 Film First Video For Next Album U2 spent Thursday in London shooting a video for the first single from the next album `No Line On The Horizon`. MORE 12/12/2008 |
 | Axl Rose Surfaces and Chats With Fans The reclusive Axl Rose has surfaced and took to the Guns n` Roses fan forum to finally start talking up `Chinese Democracy` and answering fans questions. MORE 12/12/2008 |
 | The Rolling Stones and the $3.99 Circus Admission The Rolling Stones celebrated the 40th anniversary of Rock and Roll Circus this week by selling the classic live album for $3.99. MORE 12/12/2008 |
 | Sony BMG Violated Children`s Online Piracy Act Sony BMG has settled with the US Federal Trade Commission after disclosing information about children under 13 without parental consent. MORE 12/12/2008 |
 | Elton Has A Night Out With The Nurses Sir Elton John shouted NHS workers in the UK tickets to his gig this week. MORE 12/12/2008 |
 | Elvis Costello Top Play Ball With Obama Elvis Costello will be the evening`s entertainment for the ball in honor of the Barack Obama inauguration on December 20. MORE 12/12/2008 |
 | Keane To Perform Online Christmas Show Keane will put together a Christmas show to screen at their website on December 17th. MORE 12/12/2008 |
| School Girl Faryl Smith Scores Biggest Ever Record Deal For A Child Faryl Smith is 13 year olds. She is also the newest star to sign to Universal Music for a massive deal. MORE 12/12/2008 |
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 | Supergrass Leave EMI EMI has lost another one. Supergrass is the latest act to announce it is leaving the troubled label. MORE 12/12/2008 |
 | The Eagles Head Back To The UK The Eagles will do their second tour of the UK for the current album `Long Road Out of Eden` next year. MORE 12/12/2008 |
 | There Is Hope For The Who The Who will perform at the Hope Estate winery in the Hunter Valley when they reach Australia in March. MORE 12/11/2008 |
 | Mariah Carey Baby Rumors Accelerate With Tour Cancellation Mariah Carey has been doing a very bad job of covering up her pregnancy. Do you see that recent Ellen? Now the rumors are heating up with news that she has cancelled her 2009 tour. MORE 12/11/2008 |
 | Usher Has Another Boy R&B star Usher has become a father for the second time. MORE 12/11/2008 |
 | Marilyn Manson Misses Dita Marilyn Manson still hasn`t gotten over his former lover Dita Von Teese. MORE 12/11/2008 |
 | Stevie Wonder Might Go Dancing With The Stars Stevie Wonder on Dancing With The Stars? Maybe! MORE 12/11/2008 |
 | Rage Against The Massive Attack Massive Attack ad Rage Against The Machine are just two acts that want the military to stop using music as torture. MORE 12/11/2008 |
 | The Stones Road Into Town Mick Jagger and Keith Richard`s hometown of Dartford wants to honour the Stones with their own street names. MORE 12/11/2008 |
 | EXCLUSIVE: Midnight Oil And Violent Femmes Morph Into New Band Violent Femmes bass player Brian Ritchie has teamed up Midnight Oil`s Rob Hirst, Martin Rotsey and Jim Moginie to form a new band. MORE 12/10/2008 |
 | Linda McCartney Photographed Neil Young The photo of Neil Young on the cover of `Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968` was taken by Linda Eastman. MORE 12/10/2008 |
| Britney Spears Nearly Doubles Last Albums First Week Britney Spears` `Circus` album has almost doubled the first week sales of her last album `Blackout`. MORE 12/10/2008 |
 | Pearl Jam To Bring Back Ten x 4 `Ten`, the debut album by Pearl Jam, will be reissued in 2009 in four expanded formats, including the cassette. MORE 12/10/2008 |
 | Chinese Democracy Tanks In Week Two Guns n` Roses `Chinese Democracy` is a disaster in week two. USA sales for the album fell 78% this week, according to Hitsdailydouble.com. MORE 12/10/2008 |
 | John Fogerty Reactivates The Blue Ridge Rangers Creedence Clearwater Revival legend John Fogerty is getting the old band back together but it is not CCR. Fogerty is reactivating the Blue Ridge Rangers. MORE 12/10/2008 |
 | Estelle And Adele Might Team Estelle wants to make a record for Adele. MORE 12/10/2008 |
| Jennifer Hudson Gets Back To The Office Jennifer Hudson is back at work, two months after three members of her family were murdered. MORE 12/10/2008 |
 | DMX Arrested The FBI have taken DMX into custody after he failed to appear in court. MORE 12/10/2008 |
 | Kylie Goes Bollywood Kylie Minogue is heading to Mumbai to do a bit for a Bollywood film. MORE 12/10/2008 |
 | Lily Allen Gets Bitchy About Katy Perry Lily Allen has called Katy Perry a fatter version of herself. MORE 12/10/2008 |
| Babyshambles Guitarist Pleads Guilty To Drug Charges Mick Whitnall has pleaded guilty to possession. MORE 12/10/2008 |
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 | REO Speedwagon To Perform On The Bonnie Hunt Show Bonnie Hunt has a talk show? The line between sitcom and talk show is really blurring these days. But I digress. REO Speedwagon will be on Bonnie`s new show in Friday. MORE 12/09/2008 |
 | Santogold Collaborates With Kanye On Jay-Z Single Santogold is going to appear on Jay-Z`s upcoming single `Brooklyn Go Hard`, produced by Kanye West. MORE 12/09/2008 |
| Guns n` Roses Keyboard Releases Sex Tapes Chris Pitman, keyboard player for the current incarnation of Guns n` Roses, has a new side project he calls SexTapes. MORE 12/09/2008 |
 | Jimmy Fallon Announces The Roots As New Late Night House Band Jimmy Fallon has confirmed that his house band will be The Roots when he takes over from Conan O’Brien on Late Night next year. MORE 12/09/2008 |
 | Coldplay Deny Joe Satriani Rip-Off Coldplay have issued a statement denying they ripped off the title track from the `Viva La Vida` album from Joe Satriani. MORE 12/09/2008 |
| Andre Rieu Beats AC/DC The biggest selling music title next week in Australia will be Andre Rieu `Live In Australia’. MORE 12/09/2008 |
 | Blur Reform Blur will do their first show together since 2000 on July 3, 2009 in London. MORE 12/09/2008 |
| Mariah Carey Fuels Pregnancy Rumors Following on from her appearance on Ellen last week where she spent the interview denying she was pregnant, Mariah Carey sparked for chatter today when she was seen with a sonogram. MORE 12/09/2008 |
 | Chad Smith Beats His Drum For Cancer Red Hot Chili Peppers` Chad Smith along with a host of superstar drummers are doing their thing to beat teenage cancer. MORE 12/09/2008 |
 | The Day John Lennon Died John Lennon died on this day 28 years ago. The news of his death came through in Australia on the afternoon of December 9. It was still December 8 in New York City. MORE 12/08/2008 |
 | Youth Group Sign US Deal Sydney`s Youth Group have signed a deal in the USA and are heading over to play a few shows in support of the record. MORE 12/08/2008 |
 | Elvis Presley Lear Jet To Be Auctioned The 1962 Lockheed jet, owned by Elvis Presley, is going to auction. The aircraft is the only plane owned by Elvis that is still in private hands. MORE 12/08/2008 |
| Dirty Pretty Things To Play Last Ever Show Dirty Pretty Things are getting ready to perform their last ever show. MORE 12/08/2008 |
 | Tom Waits Joins N.A.S.A. Tom Waits is one of the special guests on the forthcoming N.A.S.A project. MORE 12/08/2008 |
 | Brendan Ozolins Pays Tribute To Les Kaczmarek Founding Cold Chisel bass player Les Kaczmarek died without fulfilling his final dream. He was planning on producing his solo album. MORE 12/08/2008 |
 | The Worst Paul Simon Song Ever What was the worst song Paul Simon ever wrote? He says it is `Red Rubber Ball`’. MORE 12/08/2008 |
| Will Will.I.Am Produce U2? Kanye West has casually mentioned that Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas will be producing the next U2 album. MORE 12/08/2008 |
 | Bye Bye Guns n` Roses Guns n` Roses `Chinese Democracy` looks like vacating the US Top 10 after just one week. MORE 12/08/2008 |
 | Killers and Elton Deck The Halls The Killers have started talking up their new Christmas single with Elton John. MORE 12/08/2008 |
| Noel Says Liam Always Lands On His Feet Noel Gallagher says his brother Liam is the lucky one in the family. MORE 12/08/2008 |
 | The Beatles Make More Than Kanye and Madonna 38 years after breaking up, The Beatles are doing quite nicely, thankyou very much. MORE 12/08/2008 |
 | Morrissey Plans Hometown Gig For 50th Birthday Morrissey will turn 50 with a hometown gig in Manchester. MORE 12/08/2008 |
 | Pink The Karma Queen Pink says instant karma`s gonna get you. MORE 12/08/2008 |
 | Fame Killed Lily Allen Sex Life Fame can be hazardous to a sex-life. Just ask Lily Allen. MORE 12/08/2008 |
 | Yoko Ono Praises Ben Lee John Lennon Cover Ben Lee`s stunning new version of John & Yoko`s `Woman Is The Nigger Of The World` has been given the thumbs up by Yoko Ono. MORE 12/08/2008 |
| Slim Williams Makes Cash Money With Lil Wayne Cash Money Records was the hottest record label in the USA during 2008. How did they do it? Founder Ronald `Slim` Williams says it was all hard work. MORE 12/07/2008 |
 | M.I.A. To Decide Between Baby and Grammy In what could turn out to be the mother of all Grammy performances, spaz-out Queen M.I.A. is due to become a mother on the night of the Grammys. MORE 12/07/2008 |
| Original Cold Chisel Bass Player Dies Les Kaczmerek, the original bass player for Cold Chisel, has died of liver failure. MORE 12/07/2008 |
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 | Son of Bon Scott Wants To Be A Movie Star Ben Scott, the only child on AC/DC legend Bon Scott, has contacted Undercover to “throw his hat in the ring” for the upcoming movie about his Dad. MORE 12/07/2008 |
 | Bettie Page Hospitalised After Heart Attack The notorious Bettie Page has suffered a heart attack and is currently in a Los Angeles hospital. MORE 12/07/2008 |
 | Fantomas To Perform Album At Big Day Out Mike Patton`s Fantomas will perform their album `The Director`s Cut` in its entirety at the Big Day Out 09. MORE 12/07/2008 |
| Kanye West Glows In Melbourne Kanye West’s supposed `Glow In The Dark` tour hit Melbourne on Friday night - although as Kanye mentioned during the show this was actually a new show, and not the GITD one that had received rave reviews around the world – and it was quite the hip-hop spectacular. MORE 12/07/2008 |
 | Kings Of Leon Still The Biggest Of 2008 Kings Of Leon has stayed at number one with the biggest selling album of 2008 so far and will most likely end the year on top the way sales are going. MORE 12/07/2008 |
| Wes Carr Misses Number One By 11 Units 2008 Idol winner Wes Carr didn`t score a number one record this week, but he came close. `You` missed out by 11 units. MORE 12/07/2008 |
 | Kanye West Chucks A Tantrum At Sydney Show Kanye West confused his fans and his bands when he went off on a rant during his Sydney show last night, and then stormed off stage. MORE 12/06/2008 |
 | New Eminem Song Surfaces A new Eminem song has become suddenly available, leading to more speculation for the upcoming release of his `Relapse` album. MORE 12/06/2008 |
| Aussie Parents Demand Warning On Britney Spears Album Australian parents with young children are angry that a loophole has allowed the Britney Spears` `Circus` album to be released without a parental warning. MORE 12/06/2008 |
 | American Josh Groban Fans Shop In Australia Despite the new Josh Groban album `A Collection` not being released in America, Josh fans Stateside are finding that the 2CD album is just as easy, and also just as cheap to buy online from Australia. MORE 12/06/2008 |
| Andre Rieu Live In Australia Released It didn’t take maestro Andre Rieu long to whip out a live DVD from his current Australian tour. Live In Australia will be released on December 15. MORE 12/06/2008 |
 | At Least Three Neil Young Projects About To Drop Neil Young fans will be greeted with an avalanche of new material soon. MORE 12/06/2008 |
 | More Classic Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs On The Way When Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs played at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne on March 12th, 1972, 200,000 fans turned up for the gig. MORE 12/06/2008 |
 | Pete Doherty and The Who Pete Doherty is going to perform Who songs with Roger Daltrey. MORE 12/06/2008 |
 | Beyonce Is Worth Bucket Loads Beyonce is rolling in bucks. She has topped the young stars rich list. MORE 12/06/2008 |
 | Noel Gallagher To Make Solo Album Noel Gallagher has confirmed plans for recording a solo album. MORE 12/06/2008 |
 | Boy George Guilty, Faces Jail Sentence George O`Dowd aka Boy George could be off to prison after being found guilty of imprisoning a male escort in his apartment. MORE 12/06/2008 |
 | Coldplay Accused Of Ripping Of Joe Satriani Is Coldplay`s `Viva La Vida` a rip-off of the 2004 Joe Satriani track `If I Could Fly`? Joe thinks so, and he is suing Coldplay. MORE 12/05/2008 |
 | Jet Finishing Third Album, Prepare First Show Jet are in a better frame of mind for the imminent third album. MORE 12/05/2008 |
 | Elmer Valentine, the Father of the Sunset Strip, Dies Elmer Valentine isn’t exactly a household name, except on the Sunset Strip. Valentine is credited as the man who turned a street into the iconic stretch of West Hollywood. Valentine died this week. MORE 12/05/2008 |
 | Faith Hill Has A Fragrance Faith Hill will soon have her own signature fragrance. MORE 12/05/2008 |
 | Beyonce Cancels Holiday Concert Beyonce`s Christmas concert `Hope For The Holidays` has had a last minute cancellation. MORE 12/05/2008 |
 | And The EG Goes To Last night in Melbourne, The Age journo Patrick Donovan put on another mighty EG Awards. MORE 12/04/2008 |
 | Ben Lee Covers John Lennon Ben Lee has covered John Lennon`s `Woman Is The Nigger Of The World`. MORE 12/04/2008 |
 | Are The Grammy Awards Relevant Anymore The Grammy Awards are the night of nights for the music industry. While they are still seen as the centre of the Recording Industry universe, do the Grammy’s mean anything anymore? MORE 12/04/2008 |
 | The Boy Least Likely To Release Christmas Single, Announce New Album It`s December alright, and everyone is bringing out the Christmas merchandise, but before you go thinking it`s only Walmart cramming crap down your throats, indie rock bands are doing it too. MORE 12/04/2008 |
| Parents Outraged By Britney Spears Song Parents with children as young as 5 are horrified by the lyrics on one of the songs on the new Britney Spears album `Circus`. MORE 12/04/2008 |
| Dr. Pepper Issue Statement On Gunners Debacle Dr. Pepper seem to have taken offence to GnR’s insistence that they honour their promotion in which they used Guns ‘n’ Roses name to offer a free can of Dr. Pepper to all Americans. MORE 12/04/2008 |
| 9 Bucks For A Wes Carr Single The single from Idol winner Wes Carr is retailing for $8.99. Okay, I get it, it is an early April Fool`s joke. Right? MORE 12/04/2008 |
 | Weezer Make A Christmas Album Christmas just isn`t Christmas without Weezer singing your favourite Christmas songs. MORE 12/04/2008 |
 | U2 Believe In Father Christmas You may not be getting a new U2 album under your Christmas tree this year but there is a new Christmas video from the lads. MORE 12/04/2008 |
| What Happened To The Eminem Album? Eminem`s 'Relapse` album should be out now, but it mysteriously disappeared off the release sheets of 2008. MORE 12/04/2008 |
 | No More Beatles Rip-offs from Oasis Noel Gallagher has a word or three for people who accuse him of ripping off The Beatles. MORE 12/04/2008 |
| Rage Set Off William Balfour William Balfour, the brother-in-law of Jennifer Hudson, killed the singer`s mother, brother and nephew in a jealous fit of rage. MORE 12/04/2008 |
 | The Cat Empire Are Playing Around In The Studio While 2008 was the hiatus year, expect new music from The Cat Empire in 2009. MORE 12/04/2008 |
| Lil Wayne, Coldplay Lead The 51st Grammy Awards Nominees List Lil Wayne has been nominated for 8 Grammy Awards in 2009. Coldplay is up for 7, Jay-Z, Ne-Yo and Kanye West have 6 nods. Here is the list of the major Grammy nominees for 2009. MORE 12/04/2008 |
 | Odetta Dead At 77 African-American singer, songwriter, actress and human rights activist Odetta Holmes has died of heart disease at the age of 77. MORE 12/03/2008 |
 | Sonic Youth Team Up With Zeppelin Bassist For Dance Soundtrack New York`s noisy clique Sonic Youth are teaming up with Led Zeppelin bassist and arranger John Paul Jones and Japanese violinist/composer Takehisa Kosugi to create a soundtrack to a dance piece. MORE 12/03/2008 |
 | Mink Song Picked Up For Ghost Whisperer `New York Summer` by Sydney band Mink will soon be heard in the hit US TV show `Ghost Whisperer`. MORE 12/03/2008 |
 | Closure In Moscow Relocate To The US Melbourne band Closure In Moscow is leaving Australia for the United States to work on an album, documentary and web series. MORE 12/03/2008 |
| Britney Spears Mimed On The X Factor The X Factor, the UK talent show, is all about discovering great new singers. To sing, you need to really sing, not mime. That is unless you are Britney Spears. Britney`s performance on The X Factor this week was not live, it was a mime. MORE 12/03/2008 |
 | Ozzy Osbourne Turns 60 Happy birthday to John Michael Osbourne, born on December 3, 1948. MORE 12/03/2008 |
 | Bon Scott Movie In The Making Film-maker Eddie Martin is working on a movie about AC/DC legend Bon Scott. MORE 12/03/2008 |
 | Fleetwood Mac Reactivate Fleetwood Mac will go back on the road in 2009. MORE 12/03/2008 |
 | Flea Joins The Faces Flea will be the bass player for The Faces reunion tour. MORE 12/03/2008 |
 | No Doubt Gwen Stefani May Be Preggers Again Gwen Stefani might have bun number three in the oven. MORE 12/03/2008 |
| Chinese Democracy is Officially A Stiff So the final figure for Guns n` Roses `Chinese Democracy` and at 261,200 sales and a number 3 debut in the USA, it can officially be called a fuck-up. MORE 12/03/2008 |
 | Coldplay Add More Aussie Shows Perth, Sydney and Melbourne will be treated to additional Coldplay shows. MORE 12/02/2008 |
 | Dave Faulkner, Mark Seymour Are Some of the EG Allstars The annual EG Awards will take place in Melbourne tomorrow night with a show featuring the EG Allstars, with Mark Seymour, Dave Faulkner, Phil Manning, Ash Grunwald, Katy Steele, Even and Lilith Lane. MORE 12/02/2008 |
 | Big Day Out Finalises Lineup The final Big Day Out announcement has been finalised as the third announcement was made today. MORE 12/02/2008 |
 | Decorate Your Tree With Twee Indie Pop Tired of having the same old plain boring Christmas baubles hanging from your tree? Well this year you can grab yourself decorations covered in five of your favourite twee indie pop bands. MORE 12/02/2008 |
 | Metal Stars Wish You a Very Metal Xmas In what is undoubtedly the coolest Christmas album since Twisted Sister took on the holiday theme a few years back, ‘We Wish You A Metal Xmas And A Headbanging New Year’ sees some of the biggest names in metal singing about “Christ the saviour” and Jesus in general. MORE 12/02/2008 |
 | Free George Michael George Michael`s Abu Dhabi gig hasn`t gone as well as expected. Organisers has to give away tickets to fill empty seats. MORE 12/02/2008 |
| Babyshambles Guitarist On Drug Charges Mick Whitnall of Babyshambles is up on charges for possession after being nabbed with crack cocaine. MORE 12/02/2008 |
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 | Travis Barker and DJ-AM Get Back To Work Following the recent plane-crash that almost claimed their lives, Travis Barker and DJ-AM will reunite for their first show as TRVSDJAM on New Year`s Eve. MORE 12/02/2008 |
| Let The Britney Tour Begin Britney Spears will start her world tour in New Orleans on March 3. MORE 12/02/2008 |
| Guns n Roses May Debut At 4 In America Considering it is the most talked about new album on the planet, Guns n` Roses `Chinese Democracy` is having a real tough time grabbing interest. In the USA later week, it may even debut at number 4. MORE 12/02/2008 |
 | Serge Thomann Wins A Seat In Port Phillip If `keeping the bastards honest` is what it is all about, then the Melbourne electorate of Port Phillip had a win on the weekend. MORE 12/01/2008 |
 | Frank Black To Produce Next Art Brut Album Frank Black’s love of warm fuzzy indie rock will be impressed upon the youthful Art Brut when they hit the studio to record their next album. MORE 12/01/2008 |
 | George Harrison Was Not A Guns n’ Roses Fan George Harrison absolutely hated what Guns n` Roses did with Bob Dylan`s `Knocking On Heaven`s Door’. MORE 12/01/2008 |
| Kylie and Coldplay Team Up For AIDS Kylie Minogue and Coldplay have teamed up for a charity song in support of World AIDS Day (December 1). MORE 12/01/2008 |
 | My Chemical Romance Guitarist Readies Side Project Frank Iero, guitarist from the hugely successful My Chemical Romance is about to release the first album from his side project, Leathermouth. MORE 12/01/2008 |
 | Roskilde Festival Tickets On Sale Today Denmark`s biggest festival, Roskilde, has put it`s tickets for 2009 on sale today, just in time for Christmas. MORE 12/01/2008 |
| Will The CD Save Wes Carr I received a lot of emails from the ever faithful Idol clan following yesterday`s story about sales of the Wes Carr song in its first week. MORE 12/01/2008 |
 | Madonna Tour Breaks Record The Sticky and Sweet tour by Madonna may be the biggest solo tour ever. MORE 12/01/2008 |
 | David Furnish Wears Elton`s Hair David Furnish says he has a locket of Elton John`s baby hair around his neck. MORE 12/01/2008 |
| Coldplay Don`t Concern Oasis Ask Liam Gallagher about Coldplay and he will says that he doesn`t give a shit. MORE 12/01/2008 |
 | New Kid On The Block Came Close To Death Danny Wahlberg nearly went from being a New Kid On The Block to a Dead Kid On The Block. MORE 12/01/2008 |
 | Big Brother Calls Michael Jackson To Da House Michael Jackson may be about to make an appearance at brother Jermaine`s 54th birthday party along with fellow contestants from Jermaine`s 2007 reality TV show. MORE 12/01/2008 |
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