It’s Election Day, and musicians on both sides of the political spectrum are busy posting on social media, encouraging their fans to vote. That includes artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Ted Nugent, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty and Aretha Franklin. Which is great overall but a bit weird in the last two cases, seeing as how […]
Quincy Jones, a titan in the world of music as both a producer and musician, died Nov. 3 at the age of 91. As news of his passing became public, many of rock’s biggest names took to social media to pay their respects. In a heartfelt post to Instagram, Paul McCartney remembered Jones as a […]
It used to be pretty rare to find photographs of rockers with presidents, but, as the gallery below shows, that’s changing. And not just because of political alignments. A number of these pairings run along straight factional lines – it’s no surprise that Gene Simmons was hanging out with George W. Bush, right? – but, […]
Willie Nelson has shared his memories of late singer Kris Kristofferson, recalling the many years they worked together. It was 1985 when Nelson and Kristofferson joined forces with Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings in the outlaw country supergroup the Highwaymen. The famous quartet released three studio albums during their decade together. Nelson and Kristofferson remained […]
Former Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro admits his band was “a little cocky” when it came time to record their second album. “Every band’s first album is the best stuff they’ve done their entire life,” Porcaro explained during an appearance on the Bob Lefsetz podcast. “Every single band you can name, their first album was the best shit […]
The Cure performed a three-hour set on Friday night in London, celebrating the release of their new album, Songs of a Lost World. Appearing at Troxy, the band played the new album in full before launching into various fan favorites and other Cure classics, plus a mini set of five songs from their 1980 album, Seventeen Seconds. […]
No one is quite sure what to make of Bob Dylan‘s recent Twitter usage – not even his own son Jakob Dylan. The elder Dylan, a notoriously private figure, has seemingly tweeted on his own accord six times in the last month or so, with no apparent rhyme or reason to the subjects. In one […]
Poison drummer Rikki Rockett will release a memoir on July 15, 2025. Ghost Notes will be a collaboration with writers Leif Eriksson and Martin Svensson. He confirmed the book during a Thursday appearance on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk. “I was working on it all year last year,” Rockett said. “I was gonna launch it at the […]
Before producer David Foster completed their transformation into pop stars, Chicago had built an early reputation as a tough jazz-rocking outfit. Peter Cetera was just one of their vocalists, rather than the honey-sweet ballad-singing frontman. He actually played bass. Robert Lamm, one of Chicago’s other prominent singer-songwriters, served as principal pianist. Foster changed all of […]
Who’s Bruce Springsteen gonna call when he needs an opening number for his 2024 Halloween show? That’s right… Ghostbusters. Springsteen opened up his Thursday night concert in Montreal with a loving, unironic take on Ray Parker Jr.’s chart-topping theme song to 1984’s second-highest grossing film. In a year that’s already been filled with surprises, it’s […]