Roberta Flack, the singer and pianist who charted three No. 1 hits in the ’70s, has died. The North Carolina-born artist was 88. A press release noted that Flack “died peacefully surrounded by her family.” Flack was born on Feb. 10, 1937, in Black Mountain, North Carolina, and raised in Arlington, Virginia. The singer and pianist […]
Ratt‘s Stephen Pearcy and Warren DeMartini have begun adding more dates to their “Invasion Celebration” reunion, anchored around their headlining performance at M3 Rock Festival in May. The singer and guitarist will close out the three-day festival on May 4, following headlining performances by Sebastian Bach and David Lee Roth at Columbia, Maryland’s Merriweather Post […]
Joe Cocker has been eligible for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame since the mid ’90s, but his first ever nomination didn’t arrive until 2025, over a decade since his passing in 2014. Cocker, who was born in 1944 in Sheffield, England, started singing in public at age 12, drawing inspiration from people like […]
The ’70s were defined by change for Genesis. Their first album of the decade, 1970’s Trespass, became their last with co-founder Anthony Phillips. And so it went. Phil Collins and Steve Hackett first appeared on 1971’s Nursery Cryme and 1972’s Foxtrot, and they’d both have career-shifting influences on the group – even if Hackett’s tenure […]
Kevin Cronin has detailed the events that led to REO Speedwagon’s demise. “Shit happens in bands, especially bands that have been together as long as we have,” the rocker admitted during a conversation with Sirius XM’s Eddie Trunk. “And, there had been a little trouble brewing internally.” Cronin went on to detail bassist Bruce Hall’s […]
Rick Springfield’s most recent record, 2023’s Automatic, was his first album of all-new studio material in five years. Fans won’t have to wait nearly as long for the next chapter. The singer-songwriter recently released a new single, “Lose Myself,” and is already hard at work on another album, though he hasn’t determined a release date. […]
Santana will release an album containing new and previously released tracks titled Sentient. The LP follows the 2021 release of Carlos Santana and his band’s 26th album, Blessings and Miracles. The March 28 release includes collaborations with Smokey Robinson, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, and the late Miles Davis and Michael Jackson. One of the new tracks is a different version of Santana’s 2009 […]
Remember that brief moment of icy fear that went down your spine every time you heard the start of an Emergency Broadcast System test? Well for United States audiences on Feb. 20, 1971, it seemed as if doomsday had indeed arrived, as the alert played on TV and radio stations across the country that morning […]
“Carry on Wayward Son” has been a cornerstone of the Kansas catalog for decades. But it has also found an interesting place in pop culture, including being used as featured music leading up to the newest season of Amazon Prime’s crime thriller Reacher, which premiered this week (Feb. 20). The ties between Kansas and the […]
Ted Nugent will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his guitar anthem “Stranglehold” with a series of concerts in Michigan and Texas this spring and summer. You can see Nugent’s current tour schedule below. The Motor City Madman concluded his Adios Mofos farewell tour in 2023, but told UCR at the time that he would still […]