Lady Gaga has announced she will be donating proceeds from her upcoming Radio City Music Hall show in New York to the Haiti earthquake appeal. The singer – real name Stefani Germanotta – made the announcement during her appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show on Friday (January 15) where she likened the devastation in the country to 9/11. Read more >>

Florence & The Machine's debut album 'Lungs' has climbed to number one in the UK album chart - 28 weeks after it was first released. The Mercury Prize nominated record initially peaked at number two in the charts back in July 2009 and was only held off the top spot by the then recently deceased Michael Jackson. Read more >>

Rodrigo y Gabriela have announced details of a five-night residency at Shepherds Bush Empire this November. The Mexican acoustic duo play in front of 10,000 people over five straight nights at the West London venue from November 2nd to the 7th. Read more >>

U2's Bono, Sting and Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys are amongst the music stars who will perform live on the Hope For Haiti TV fundraising appeal this Friday (January 22). Organiser George Clooney has also drafted in Alicia Keys and Christina Aguilera for the charity telethon. Read more >>

Sir Paul McCartney presented an award at the Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles last night where he joked about cartoons being for adults on drugs as well as children. The Beatles legend was at the lavish Beverly Hilton Hotel ceremony with his girlfriend Nancy Shevell and presented the Best Animated Feature award to Up. Read more >>

Lady Gaga, Dizzee Rascal and Florence & The Machine will all be performing at this year's Brit Awards, it's been confirmed today. Also joining the live line-up at the Earl's Court bash on February 16 are Kasabian, Cheryl Cole, former X Factor runners-up JLS and Robbie Williams, who will pick up his Outstanding Contribution To Music award at the ceremony. Read more >>

The Killers have confirmed that they will be taking an indefinite break once their current tour wraps up. Speaking ahead of their 'Day And Age' tour of the Far East and Australia, guitarist Dave Keuning says their show in Melbourne on February 21 will be their last in the forseeable future. Read more >>

Beach House have announced details of a one-off show in London this summer. On their back of their completely sold-out show at London's Bush Hall next month, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally will play Heaven on June 1st. Read more >>

Courtney Love's former Hole bandmate Melissa Auf Der Maur says she is both “surprised” and “disappointed” with Love's decision to tour without her. The Canadian bassist was a member of Hole from 1994 to 1999 and admitted she was shocked to hear that Love had decided to hit the road with Hole this year without any former members of the group - including co-founder Eric Erlandson. Read more >>

Susan Boyle has reportedly been snubbed by The Brit Awards and will not be amongst the nominations when they are unveiled in London later tonight. Despite chalking up the biggest selling album of 2009 in the UK, the Daily Mail reports that SuBo isn't “cool enough” for The Brits and won't receive any nods. Read more >>

Fresh from cracking the top ten with their debut album 'Acolyte', Delphic have now set their sights on Glastonbury. Speaking to Gigwise, singer James Cook explained that it's one of his biggest ambitions of 2010 to play Worthy Farm. Read more >>

The Enemy are taking a break from recording and touring, with singer Tom Clarke concentrating on decorating his newly acquired farm. Speaking to Radio 1's Newsbeat, Clarke explained that the band haven't had a break since 2007 and are preparing to step out of the limelight for the time being. Read more >>

Saxon vocalist Biff Byford is figure-heading a campaign to get heavy metal recognised as a religion in the UK. Byford has teamed up with Metal Hammer Magazine for a campaign urging British rock fans to adopt heavy metal as their 'religion' ahead of the 2011 census. Read more >>

Lady GaGa and Lily Allen have both been nominated for three BRIT Awards. The two singers are among a host of acts who have picked up multiple nominations ahead of the ceremony next month. Read more >>