Art Rupe obituary | Pop and rock
As the rock’n’roll era took shape in the late 1940s, emerging from a raucous new blend of blues and jazz played for dancers in the night clubs of black America, the executives at major record […]
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7-Letter Words For Taylordle | POPSUGAR Entertainment
If you’re a serious Taylor Swift fan, your preferred version of the game Wordle is probably Taylordle, which has a similar concept but features only Taylor Swift-related words as the answers. It’s the perfect crossover […]
Rush Share Tom Sawyer From New Moving Pictures Reissue
Rush have shared the official audio for “Tom Sawyer (Live In YYZ 1981)” from their upcoming Moving Pictures – 40th Anniversary reissue. You can check it out below. Due out on April 15 through UMe/Mercury […]
Music icon Chris Blackwell on how he met Bob Marley, travel
When it comes to rock and roll, the London-born Chris Blackwell, 84, is a familiar name. As the founder of Island Records, the label he established in Jamaica in 1959 and England in 1962, Blackwell […]
‘Me Got Fiyo’ Exhibition Honors New Orleans Giant Professor Longhair
A new exhibition celebrating rhythm and blues great and New Orleans giant Professor Longhair will open on April 19 at the Capitol Park Museum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Me Got Fiyo: The Professor Longhair Centennial […]
Taylor Hawkins, the Foo Fighters’ Drummer, Passes Away at 50
The Foo Fighters have unquestionably claimed the title of a beloved band of our time. From horror movie shenanigans to jamming with kids to just plain seeming like good people, the band always spreads good […]
Eddie Murphy Reportedly in Talks to Play George Clinton in Biopic
Eddie Murphy is in early talks to play George Clinton in an upcoming biopic, Variety reports. The project is said to cover Clinton’s early life in North Carolina in the 1940s up until the formation of […]
Foo Fighters Drummer Taylor Hawkins Dead at 50
Taylor Hawkins, the drummer for the Foo Fighters, Alanis Morissette and his own band, is dead. The Foo Fighters announced his death with a post that reads, in part, “The Foo Fighters family is devastated […]
A Status Update On Her Life And Health In 2022
Tina Turner is an undeniable music legend. From her early success in the 1960s to her rise to solo superstardom in the ‘80s, the best-selling songstress has had a one-of-kind career that’s spanned more than […]
Soul-Stirring Facts About Sam Cooke, The King Of Soul
There are few artists in history who can claim to have made as big an impact as the one and only Sam Cooke. From defining one genre to completely revolutionizing another one, he changed the […]
Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Rejects Dolly Parton’s Nomination Withdrawal
Singer Dolly Parton is still under consideration for the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. The 17 other Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees are A Tribe Called Quest, Beck, Pat Benatar, Kate Bush, […]
See Retired Music Legend Linda Ronstadt Now at 75 — Best Life
Dubbed “the Queen of Rock,” Arizona-born Linda Ronstadt was, for a time in the late 1970s, one of the highest-paid women making music, according to The New Yorker. Throughout her five-decade, chart-topping career as a […]
Dolly Parton bows out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominations
In a statement shared to her social media accounts, the country chanteuse said that while she was “extremely flattered and grateful” for the nomination, she didn’t feel she’d “earned that right.” “I really do not […]
Iconic Artists Group buys rights to Nat ‘King’ Cole assets
Twin sisters Casey and Timolin Cole were born into a life of unusual luxury in Hancock Park to a father nicknamed “King” whose success was so great that the historic Capitol Records building not far […]
How can I buy Metallica 2022 concert tickets?
Shared from www.the-sun.com METALLICA has been around the block for over 40 years and this year you can see them live on tour. Metallica is an American heavy metal rock band, formed in 1981 by […]
Roxy Music Announce Vinyl Reissue of First Two Albums
Shared from consequence.net Roxy Music are reissuing their first two albums, Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure, on vinyl. These new pressings are due out on April 1st via Virgin/UMe. Originally released in 1972 and […]
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2022 nominations
Shared from www.hola.com The nominations for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2022 have been announced! This year, list features Eminem, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, Duran Duran, Beck, Pat Benatar, Carly Simon, […]