Meat Loaf, the iconic rocker, died on Thursday surrounded by loving family and friends. He was 74. His daughter, Amanda Aday, recently shared some of her sweetest memories of her famous father, saying that he was a “complex man with a lot of passion, who wore his heart on his sleeve” throughout his life. “So, he […]
Elton John has officially picked up where he left off on his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, which initially began in September of 2018. After a nearly two-year hiatus, the Rocket Man returned to the stage in New Orleans to play a myriad of classic hits for a roaring crowd of fans. Due to both […]
Adding on to their End Of The Road Tour, KISS has just announced that they will be playing four rescheduled shows in May of this year in addition to their headlining slot for this year’s Welcome to Rockville festival on May 29th in Daytona Beach, Florida, along with Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, and Korn. […]
On January 19th, 1946, Dolly Parton was born. Today, the Queen of Country is turning 76! According to her own website, Parton grew up as the fourth child of 12 in Locust Ridge, Tennessee. Over the course of her rhinestone-studded career, the music icon has had 25 songs reach No. 1 on the country music […]
It has just been revealed that David Bowie is the 21st Century’s best-selling vinyl artist. Bowie’s vinyl sales for the 2000s equated to 582,704 units, placing him ahead of The Beatles at 535,596 sales. These were the only two acts to top half a million units on the vinyl format. According to chart analyst Alan […]
After selling his masters and publishing catalog for a reported $550 million, Bruce Springsteen was officially confirmed as the biggest earner of 2021. The report, written by former Forbes editor Zack O’Malley Greenburg, explained how selling valuable music archives heavily skewed the annual chart of artists’ incomes. Greenburg explained the incentive for artists to sell their rights, […]
Led Zeppelin co-founder John Paul Jones is reportedly working on the soundtrack for the film And Anne with his band Snoweye, which consists of Elle Marja Eira and Lucy Parnell alongside Jones. The band was formed in 2017, self-described as “ethereal, yet soulful. Elusive, yet instinctive,” performing “folk-inspired melodies” in both an indigenous Finno-Ugric language, called […]
Ronnie Spector, the beloved lead singer of The Ronettes, passed away at 78. In a statement released on Wednesday, her family wrote: “Our beloved earth angel, Ronnie, peacefully left this world today after a brief battle with cancer,” the family said. “She was with family and in the arms of her husband, Jonathan. Ronnie lived her […]
The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is coming back to Manchester, Tennessee after two years of setbacks and cancellations, first due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then because of severe flooding. Just yesterday, the genre-crossing lineup for the 2022 event was announced, including big names in music like J. Cole, Tool, Stevie Nicks, the War on […]
Michael Lang, a co-creator of the 1969 Woodstock music festival alongside Artie Kornfeld, John Roberts, and Joel Rosenman, died over the weekend at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center after a battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. “He was absolutely a historic figure, and also a great guy,” Michael Pagnotta, a spokesperson for the Lang family, […]