Metallica’s “Black Album” Took Them from Metal Heroes to Rock Giants

Metallica's "Black Album" Took Them from Metal Heroes to Rock Giants

With their fifth LP, a self-titled effort better known as “The Black Album”, Metallica’s popularity skyrocketed from metal heroes to international rock superstars. And while the album earned Metallica millions of new fans, there was […]

‘Better late than never’: how Brian Eno and David Byrne finally laid a musical ghost to rest | Pop and rock

Dunya Younes in the 1970s

In early 1970s Lebanon, a young singer from a hill town north of Beirut was on the up. Before the civil war in 1975, the capital was the Arab world’s thriving artistic centre, where folk-dance […]

Willow Smith Addresses Her Father Slapping Chris Rock at Oscars

Willow Smith Addresses Her Father Slapping Chris Rock at Oscars

In a new interview with Billboard, Willow Smith opened up about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock during the 94th Academy Awards ceremony. According to Willow, the post-slap backlash against her father didn’t “rock me as much as my own internal demons.” “I see […]

Mo Ostin obituary | Pop and rock

Mo Ostin in his office in the 1970s.

It is usually the artists who are the household names in the music business, but there have been a handful of executives who became well known in their own right, such as Clive Davis at […]

Here Is Multi-Camera Video Of PETER CRISS And BRUCE KULICK’s ‘Hooked On Rock ‘N’ Roll’ Performance From Nashville’s CREATURES FEST

Watch: PETER CRISS And ACE FREHLEY Reunite On Stage At Nashville's CREATURES FEST

Original KISS drummer Peter Criss joined former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick and his solo band on stage on May 29 at this year’s Creatures Fest at Nashville’s Sonesta Nashville Airport Hotel. Together they performed the […]

‘I don’t want my career resurrected!’ The last orders of pub rock pioneer Mickey Jupp | Pop and rock

Mickey Jupp on tour by train in 1978.

If you want to get away from everything, you could do worse than head for Boot, in Eskdale, Cumbria. With a population of just 15, the tiny village is reached via the hazardous, winding Hardknott […]

Will Smith Breaks Silence On Oscars Slap, Apologizes To Chris Rock In New Video

Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith attend the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, just after Smith slapped Chris Rock onstage, and also won an Oscar, on March 27.

Will Smith broke his silence on the “slap heard ’round the world” on Friday, telling fans in a nearly six-minute video he is “deeply remorseful” for slapping comedian Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards. […]

Maggie Rogers’ Surrender Is an Indie Rock Triumph: Stream the Album

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Maggie Rogers has released her sophomore album, Surrender, via Debay Sounds/Capitol Records. Stream it via Apple Music or Spotify below. The studio effort arrives three-and-a-half years after Rogers’ breakout solo album Heard It in a […]