Following his lauded success with Black Sabbath, filling in for Ozzie Osbourne, Ronnie James Dio split off on his own taking Sabbath drummer Vinny Appice with him and formed Dio, dropping metal landmark Holy Diver [...]
Warriors of the Manchester post-rave culture circa early 1990, The Stone Roses, who just this past October announced a comeback reunion, played for the first time in 16 years at the iconic Parr Hall in [...]
70s Kings of “Rawk,” Aerosmith, are back after an 8-year hiatus with a new LP, their 15th, dubbed Music from Another Dimension (Columbia; August 28). Teasing the news along is a first taste via digital [...]
Robert Allen Zimmerman, the name his parents gave him, was born in Duluth, MN on this day in 1941. At some point en route to his iconic status he changed his name to Bob Dylan, [...]
Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter at Billboard‘s annual Music Awards this past Sunday, prior to nabbing an award for “Top Social Artist,” Justin Bieber got to confessing about a particular lyric from his forthcoming album [...]
Contributing “punk vocal” in his infamous Blue Series singles, Nashville’s most rowdy innovating rock figure Jack White and label Third Man Records just announced the May 28 drop of Gen X poster child Beck as [...]
Out on a rural Louisiana road on this day in 1934, two of the “public enemy” era’s most infamous celebrities, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, were gunned down by a quartet of Texas officers, ending [...]
Stamped with a #WhosBAD trending seal of approval comes the late King of Pop‘s twenty-something achievement, in which the artist’s landmark 1987 album, Bad, turns a quarter-century old, and Epic Records readies a whole goodie [...]
Paralleling her final silver screen moments in Sparkle, the forthcoming Supremes-era drama hitting theaters August 17, the late Whitney Houston, who passed away this February, recorded a duet with co-star Jordin Sparks dubbed “Celebrate.” Produced [...]
Lady GaGa took some animated time off her Asian protest spotlight to cameo in an episode of The Simpsons over the weekend. Trained in to town to cheer up a depressed Lisa, the cartoon GaGa [...]
