Jerry Allison, drummer and songwriter for rock legend Buddy Holly, dies at 82

A bearded man plays the drums

Jerry Allison, an architect of rock drumming who played and co-wrote songs with childhood friend Buddy Holly and whose future wife inspired the classic song “Peggy Sue,” has died at 82. His death was confirmed […]

Official RONNIE JAMES DIO Documentary ‘Dio: Dreamers Never Die’: Trailer Available

Official RONNIE JAMES DIO Documentary 'Dio: Dreamers Never Die': Trailer Available

The official trailer for the first-ever career-spanning documentary on the life and times of legendary metal icon Ronnie James Dio is available below. Executive-produced by Dio‘s widow and longtime manager Wendy Dio and fully authorized […]

Marvin and Jolens? Rico and Claudine? A Gen-Z’s guide to ‘90s loveteams

Marvin and Jolens? Rico and Claudine? A Gen-Z’s guide to ‘90s loveteams

MANILA, Philippines – We all know that love teams are a Pinoy showbiz staple, and while recent history has seen the rise of love teams like KathNiel, LizQuen, JaDine, AlDub, and, more recently, DonBelle, one […]

In the streaming era, Substack helps indie rockers pay the bills. Can it last? | Music

Brandon Boyd of Incubus sings into a microphone while on stage.

“I jumped from my chair and knelt over my father, cradling his head. As if in a movie, I held his head in one hand and snapped the other in front of his face, yelling […]

Official Ronnie James Dio Documentary to Premiere in Theaters

dio documentary poster

An official Ronnie James Dio documentary, titled Dio: Dreamers Never Die, is hitting theaters on September 28th and October 2nd for a two-day only event. The career-spanning documentary follows the legendary metal singer’s rise “from […]

‘It’s so alien, I’ve never heard anything like it’: folk collective Heilung on recording the world’s oldest song | Folk music

Heilung performing in Berlin in 2019

About 300,000 years ago (give or take a few millennia), the human larynx dropped downwards, an evolutionary advance as vital in separating us from the apes as the development of opposable thumbs and a large […]

Ricky Nelson Net Worth | Celebrity Net Worth

Ricky Nelson

What was Ricky Nelson’s Net Worth? Ricky Nelson was an American actor, musician, and singer-songwriter who had a net worth of $500 thousand at the time of his death in 1985. Ricky Nelson rose to […]

The devil went down to Gambia! The surprising history of African country music | Music

Bulawayo Blue Yodel – a compilation of country-influenced African music.

In early July, a Twitter account called The Zimbabwean posted a thread highlighting the popularity of country music across Africa. The posts included videos – mostly phone footage from bars and weddings – that persuasively […]

Olivia Newton-John was that rare thing: a wonderfully unselfconscious star | Olivia Newton-John

Surreal and spectacular … with Michael Beck in Xanadu.

Olivia Newton-John was an Australian recording star who achieved serious Hollywood fame with her starring role in the 1978 musical Grease, playing opposite the white-hot leading man of the moment, John Travolta. Just a few […]

Dame Olivia Newton-John obituary | Musicals

Olivia Newton-John representing Britain at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.

The singer and actor Olivia Newton-John, who has died aged 73 after suffering from cancer, had a ready riposte for anyone who called her “Miss Goody Two-Shoes from Australia”. Despite her Melbourne accent, she had […]

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 […]