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Buildings, bridges and monuments across the world were bathed in purple lights in honor of the music star. Continue reading…

He played on a huge Roy Orbison hit, one of Bob Dylan's most famous albums and Dolly Parton's signature song. Continue reading…

Los Angeles and Minneapolis are getting Slayer shows playing 'Reign in Blood' in full for its 40th anniversary. Continue reading…

Photo Credit: Jay Strausser The are many annual jazz festivals around the world, but the one known to millions as simply Jazz Fest is the one held every April in jazz’s spiritual birthplace. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival attracted a crowd of just 350 in its first year in 1970, but decades later the festival brings somewhere around half a million music lovers to the Fair Grounds Race […]

The "Purple Rain" singer was just 57 years old. Continue reading…

Was it all a phase? See what the stars of the 2000s emo era looked like then as well as today. Continue reading…

Nearly two dozen concerts added to summer schedule. Continue reading…

Former Talking Heads frontman just released his first new LP since 2018's 'American Utopia.' Continue reading…

He'll be on tour for much of June and July. Continue reading…

Gloomy, gothy, punky, poppy — the multidimensional band's LPs are among the best of their era. Continue reading…

The thrash legends retired from touring but have played special one-off shows in recent years. Continue reading…

They'll alternate between headlining dates and opening for Blackberry Smoke. Continue reading…

They'll alternate between headlining dates and opening for Blackberry Smoke. Continue reading…

The Motor City Madman currently has 18 dates lined up for the summer. Continue reading…

(photo: Krishta Abruzzini) Former Foreigner vocalist Lou Gramm is the guest on the latest installment of the Lipps Service podcast, speaking with host Scott Lipps about his first solo album since 1989, Released, which is based around music recorded nearly 40 years ago but never finished until recently. Gramm also discusses his roots in the band Black Sheep and getting dropped by its record label before receiving a fateful call from Mick […]

(photo: Miles Aldridge) Suki Waterhouse is making it official. After teasing a new era late last month with the track “Back in Love,” the indie pop singer has confirmed that her next full-length album, Loveland, is arriving July 10 via Island Records. The 14-track effort’s second single, “Tiny Raisin,” is expected on Friday (April 24). “Loveland to me lives in the distance between a former self who felt most alive […]

(photo: Robin Laananen) Modest Mouse will be back this summer with its first new album in five years — and, notably, its return to an indie ecosystem after spending more than 25 years on Epic. An Eraser and a Maze, is due June 5 via Glacial Pace Recordings, the long-running imprint overseen by frontman Isaac Brock with distribution from Virgin Music Group.The band has shared the album’s opening track, “Picking […]

Patti Smith in Spain in September 2024 (photo: Bianca de Vilar / WireImage). After a rockin’ debut incarnation in 2025 headlined by Jack White and Iggy Pop, the CBGB Festival will set up shop again Sept. 26 at Under the K Bridge Park, the open-air venue literally underneath the Kosciuszko Bridge roadway in Brooklyn. Also booked for the event are hometown indie heroes Interpol, the new Frank Carter-fronted version of […]

Herbie Hancock performs on July 25, 2022 in San Sebastian, Spain (photo: Gari Garaialde / Redferns). Some of the genre’s biggest and most beloved artists will assemble July 31-Aug. 2 for the 72nd Newport Jazz Festival, which will return to Rhode Island’s Fort Adams park with a bill led by 86-year-old Herbie Hancock, Kamasi Washington and Chief Adjuah’s Miles Davis/John Coltrane centennial celebration, Thundercat, Flea, Robert Glasper and Gary Clark […]

From rusty tools to bikes (so many bikes), this is a look inside the everyday 1980s garage. Continue reading…