Rudd ‘going to get AC/DC job back’
DRUMMER Phil Rudd says he wants his job back with rock band AC/DC and that he is going to get it as he fights criminal charges.
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Madge shows why she is Queen of Pop
NO ONE puts Madonna in a corner. After tracks from her new album Rebel Heart leaked online, the megastar has hit back — and fans are loving it.
Madonna: Leaking songs is ‘a form of terrorism’
MADONNA’S new album has leaked well ahead of schedule — and she’s angry. However, her response to the leak is causing a backlash of its own.
Idol winner Wes Carr pens Sydney siege song
“THIS song just poured out of me,” says Wes Carr. The singer-songwriter’s tribute song to the victims of the Sydney siege has been met with praise.
Lennon’s killer has sex annually
THE wife of John Lennon’s killer, Mark Chapman, has revealed how she spends the 44 hours she is allowed to be with him once a year.
Secrets behind an Aussie boy band
LIFE in a boy band looks glamorous, but this is what one of Australia’s most popular groups, 5 Seconds of Summer, gets up to behind the scenes.
Singer threatens to kill Obama
FORMER Creed frontman Scott Stapp is having a bad day. He thinks he’s a CIA agent and he’s supposed to assassinate Barack Obama.
The most expensive VIP tickets in history
AUSSIE fans can pay $7250 to meet US star Demi Lovato privately. But with concert tickets not even included, see how this VIP package compares to others.
Actor, 92, drops heavy metal Xmas song
CALL him Lord of the Riffs. Christopher Lee, aka Lord Saruman from Lord of the Rings, has released a not-so-merry Christmas carol.
INXS rocker blasts daughter’s comments
INXS bass player Garry Beers is “deeply hurt and saddened” after his daughter described him as an egotistical man who ‘thrived on a diet of sex, drugs, and rock and roll’.
Azalea, Sia up for major Grammys
IGGY Azalea, Sia and Keith Urban are set to compete with the elite of the music world after bagging multiple Grammy Award nominations.
‘I felt like a sellout’
ANDRE 3000 has revealed his true feelings about OutKast’s 20th anniversary reunion tour, admitting he did it for the cold, hard cash.
This is the dark side of Stereosonic
VIDEO has emerged of a wild brawl from last weekend’s Stereosonic music festival that left a man unconscious on a packed dancefloor.
Rock star jailed for child sex abuse
A FORMER drummer for the band Cake, who had a hit in Australia with the song Going the Distance, has been jailed for 15 years for molesting a toddler.
The video that broke YouTube
KIM Kardashian may think she “broke the internet”, but she’s got nothing on a video that’s racked up more than 2.1 billion views.
Skrillex pushes bondaries of pop
SONNY Moore, aka DJ Skrillex, is busy making pop music a slightly stranger place, working with the likes of Usher and Ed Sheeran.
‘I came out when I was four’
SINGER Sam Smith tells Ellen he had no choice but to be open about his sexuality despite the risk to his career.
AC/DC star ‘has forgotten own songs’
AC/DC guitarist Angus Young has opened up about his brother Malcolm’s spiral into dementia, saying he can no longer remember the music he wrote.
Rocker’s secret love child revealed
COUNTRY music singer Jay O’Shea set out to find her birth father and discovered he was an Australian rock legend.
Unfortunate Cosby song ‘not about a sex act’
HILLTOP Hoods say they ‘regret’ referencing Bill Cosby in their hit song. And they’ve been forced to say the lyrics aren’t about a sex act. So what does it mean?
ARIA Awards 2014 – Best of the red carpet
STARS of the Aussie music industry step out in style at the ARIA Awards 2014 in Sydney.
Who scooped up at the 2014 ARIAs
WINNERS LIST: Squeals of excitement greeted local and international artists on the red carpet and on stage. So who won, who lost, who shocked?
AC/DC take stock, then rock on
FOR AC/DC losing a founding member has not stopped the rockers pumping a new album. The show must go on, says Angus Young.
Pop stars today ‘act like whores’
BETTE Midler has slammed young female pop stars, singling out Ariana Grande’s efforts to be sexy as “silly beyond belief”.
Perry in ugly legal battle with paparazzo
KATY Perry is caught up in a legal stoush with Sydney paparazzo Jamie Fawcett after posting “defamatory” tweets about him to her 60 million followers.
CelebCon – AMA’s 2014 on social media
GO behind the scenes at the 2014 American Music Awards as your favourite stars get personal on social media.
Katy furious with Aussie media
‘YOU should be ashamed’: Touring pop star Katy Perry has lashed out at the Australian media after an unpleasant encounter with photographers in Sydney today.
Perry’s roar talent shines in Sydney
GOODBYE whipped cream cannon bras; Katy Perry has a new look. Fans were treated to futuristic costumes and a laser light show at her Sydney concert.
The forgotten Beatle and his last wish
THEY formed the band that became the biggest in rock music history but as Charles Miranda discovers, The Quarrymen just want to play in Australia.
Will Pauline Pantsdown make a comeback?
WITH Pauline Hanson announcing a return to Aussie politics, what does that mean for the drag queen who parodied her in the 1990s?
Malik hits back at drug rumours
ONE Direction’S Zayn Malik has hit back at substance abuse claims, after he missed a TV show appearance.
Dropkick Murphys quit tour after ‘suicide’
CELTIC rockers the Dropkick Murphys have scrapped their last date on a US tour after a man threw himself in front of their bus and was killed.
Which celebrity snubbed Band Aid?
MEGAWATT singing stars have joined forces to tackle the deadly Ebola epidemic through Band Aid 30. But which powerhouse vocalist snubbed an invitation to take part?
Stars record Band Aid song for Ebola
BOB Geldof, One Direction and Bono are among those artists in London to record a 30th anniversary version of the Band Aid single to help fight Ebola.
Samantha Jade’s bittersweet single
POP darling Samantha Jade promised her dying mum she would get back to work quickly after her sad passing in June. Now she reveals a taste of her long-awaited second album.
When Redfoo met Kyle & Jackie O
REDFOO’S cosy chat with Kyle and Jackie O has given us an insight into the mind that lives under the fro and here’s 10 things we learnt.
AC/DC break silence on drummer
AC/DC founder Angus Young and bassist Cliff Williams say Phil Rudd was acting erratically and missed photo sessions before his arrest in New Zealand.
Redfoo’s grovelling apology for his ‘art’
REDFOO has taken to Facebook to apologise for his new track, Literally I Can’t, which he calls “art” and everyone else calls “sexist”.
Stones start it up like they never left
MICK Jagger was in very fine voice as the Rolling Stones resumed their 14 On Fire tour in Sydney last night.
AC/DC’s raciest music video yet
THE Play Ball video is rock’n’roll the way AC/DC has always played it, and they make no apologies for the plethora of old-school sexist cliches.
Redfoo defends sexist song: ‘I’m an artist’
X FACTOR judge Redfoo has defended his appearance in a shocking new music video in which he says women are “annoying” and need to “shut the f**k up.”
The Bell tolls again for Pink Floyd
IT SEEMS no one was more surprised by the new Pink Floyd album than the band members themselves.
It’s giggly, flirty, single again Mariah
FIRST came her emancipation, now Mariah Carey has claimed for herself the more lofty title of ‘elusive chanteuse.’ She performed in Sydney last night.
Foo Fighters: ‘U2 album sounds like a fart’
TAYLOR Hawkins from the Foo Fighters has slammed U2’s latest album and has criticised the group for giving away their album for free on iTunes.
The dark side of ‘perfect’ K-pop world
THE picture-perfect world of Korean popular music is not all it seems. Fear and desperation lurk just beneath the surface of this shiny, plastic paradise.
Katy Perry opens Aust tour with bang
THERE were no F bombs but a whole lot of pop wizardry and pyrotechnics as Katy Perry began the Australia leg of her world tour in Perth.
AC/DC drummer’s murder charge dropped
AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has seen the charge of attempting to procure a murder withdrawn. Rudd was sensationally arrested yesterday.
AC/DC drummer ‘had some problems’
A MAN police claim was approached to kill two people by AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has said the rocker “burnt a lot of bridges”.
Phil Rudd: The man behind the kit
SINCE auditioning for AC/DC in late 1974, Phil Rudd has been regarded as an integral part of the band. But it appears his playing days with the rock gods are over.
Spandau Ballet back to tour again
REUNITED UK band Spandau Ballet have revealed the reformation of pop rivals Duran Duran helped prompt their own comeback.
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