George Kooymans, a cofounding member of Golden Earring whose vocals and guitar were staples of the band’s sound, has died at the age of 77. News of Kooyman’s death comes courtesy of an attorney associated with the group, which called it quits in 2021 following the news of Kooyman’s ALS diagnosis. “We say goodbye to a great […]
On Sept. 12, the long-awaited sequel to 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap will arrive in theaters. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues is set to star the original band lineup and the actors who played them over 40 years ago: Michael McKean as singer David St. Hubbins, Christopher Guest as guitarist Nigel Tufnel and Harry Shearer […]
Ozzy Osbourne played his final live show a little more than two weeks before his death on Tuesday. The singer, along with his Black Sabbath bandmates, played the daylong Back to the Beginning concert at Villa Park in the group’s hometown of Birmingham on July 5. In addition to sets by Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, Aerosmith‘s […]
Blaze Foley, a long-dead Texas singer-songwriter, made headlines this week when a new song appeared on Spotify. But “Together” wasn’t an unearthed gem from the past. Instead, the track appeared to be AI-generated. The same thing has happened to Toto, a band that is on tour again but no longer produces new music. A previously […]
Billy Joel has offered an update on his health after being diagnosed with a rare brain disorder that forced him to cancel all scheduled tour dates. “I feel good,” Joel said on a new episode of Bill Maher’s Club Random Podcast, which you can watch below. “They keep referring to what I have as a brain disorder, […]
Next month, Dead & Company will perform three shows in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in celebration of the Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary. The last of those shows, set to take place on Aug. 3, will be shown in IMAX theaters. A total of 30 movie theaters across the U.S. and Canada will stream the concert […]
We recently highlighted the iconic cars of the ’70s and the magazine ads that sold them, so it only makes sense to do the same for the ’80s. The cars of the ’80s may not have had the boat-like flash of the ’70s, but they definitely brought their own personality. Plus, unlike the ’70s, movies […]
Toto, Men at Work and Christopher Cross launched their 2025 joint tour on Friday night in West Palm Beach, Florida. Cross and Men at Work each played nine-song sets, while Toto brought everything home, performing 18 songs. You can see fan-filmed footage from the show, plus a complete set list, below. READ MORE: Top 10 Toto […]
Metallica became the heroes of the day when they swooped in to save Tomorrowland, lending their stage to the Belgian electronic music festival after a fire wiped out its main stage. This year’s Tomorrowland — which runs from July 18 to 27 and will draw 400,000 people to the town of Boom in Belgium’s Antwerp province — […]
It’s not easy to define British music in the 2000s. There were plenty of bands that had staked their claim in the ’90s — Oasis, Blur, Radiohead, etc. – that continued to have a great deal of influence in the new millennium. And then there were bands like Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay and the Kooks, who understandably […]