Famous for her role within The Wonderstuff and as one half of her personal and professional partnership with Wonderstuff frontman Miles Hunt, Erica Nockalls is renowned for her expertise on the violin, having trained at the Birmingham Conservatoire; she has now chosen to step out of the background and into the limelight with her first foray into the solo field.

Glasgow alt-rockers Texas have unveiled the brand new video for their track ‘The Conversation’, which you can check out below.

Black Star Riders, the new band featuring Thin Lizzy members Ricky Warwick, Damon Johnson, Scott Gorham and Marco Mendoza together with drummer Jimmy DeGrasso (Alice Cooper/Megadeth), have announced dates for their debut UK tour. Special guests are to be confirmed in the coming weeks.

3 Doors Down bassist Todd Harrell has been charged with ‘vehicular homicide by intoxication’ today, after drunkenly driving his car and causing the death of a 47 year-old man.

Rob Zombie's fifth solo album is a bit of a split work on first appearances. Abandoning the darkness of his previous album covers - yet keeping his face slap bang on the front - 'Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor' looks more suited to being a 70s hippy-dippy revival, vividly colourful and pop-arty. Though that element seems to reflect the rainbow exuberance of his live shows, the music remains quintessentially sinister, thankfully. 

X Factor group One Direction are currently Britain’s wealthiest boyband, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

Internet sensation Gabrielle Aplin will embark on another 2013 UK-wide tour in October, taking her mesmerising voice to much larger venues for 13 shows. In association with Eventim, Stereoboard are giving away a pair of tickets to see Gabrielle Aplin perform live at Leeds O2 Academy on Saturday 9th November - see our new competition below for details.

Sharon Osbourne may be returning to the UK X Factor judging panel for a deal worth a hefty £2million, according to reports.

MGMT have revealed details of their new single 'Alien Days'. The single comes from the duo's Record Store Day cassette release, which took place Saturday 20th of April. 

Don Broco release their new single 'Whole Truth' via Search And Destroy Records today.

American rapper and singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams performed his new track with Daft Punk and Nile Rodgers ‘Get Lucky’ for the first time on Friday night - and ended up running through the track three times.

Despite the fact their album leaked a month before release, Bring Me The Horizon proved that they are indeed one of the biggest and most exciting British band’s to emerge in years, by storming the UK album chart at #3 with their new release, ‘Sempiternal’. The album was not only a huge UK success story, it charted high globally including #11 in the US and #1 in Australia.

Pop-rock superstar David Bowie has yet another album in the pipeline, according to High Flying Birds man Noel Gallagher.

The Defiled have added another 8 shows to their recently announced May tour. Frontman Stitch D explains:

After an extended break from singing due to vocal problems John Mayer is finally back on the road to tour his acclaimed album ‘Born and Raised’. As part of his world tour the Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician has today confirmed that he will grace the UK with a performance at the O2 Arena in London on Sunday 20th October.

Award-winning indie-rockers Glasvegas have announced a UK tour for this June, ahead of the release of their third studio ‘Later... When the TV Turns to Static’ later this year.

Wet Wet Wet have confirmed plans for a UK tour for the end of the year, announcing 12 live dates for December.

English rockers Shed Seven have announced a greatest hits UK tour today, that will take place this Christmas.

The iconic Barry Gibb has announced he will be coming to the UK this autumn for a tour, performing songs from his illustrious career. 

Following their appearance on ‘The Big Reunion’ earlier this year, and a sold out show at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 3rd May, Blue are back on the road for a full UK tour, visiting Norwich, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, Glasgow, Birmingham and London in October.