NEW YORK — Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose blinding speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one of hard rock’s biggest groups and became elevated to the status of rock […]
NEW YORK — It’s been four years since Rihanna released an album but the singer is working hard on recording new music. The pop star, 32, told The Associated Press for her new album she’s […]
LOS ANGELES — Ronald “Khalis” Bell, a co-founder, singer and producer of the group Kool & the Gang, has died. He was 68. Bell died at his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands Wednesday morning […]
NEW YORK — While in isolation, Taylor Swift has created a new album and is releasing it Friday. The pop star made the surprise announcement Thursday on Instagram. “Folklore,” her eighth record, comes less than […]
AUSTIN, Texas — Austin City Limits has joined the ranks of major music festivals to be canceled because of the coronavirus. Festival organizers said in a statement Wednesday that scrapping the three-day October event was […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Members of the Grammy-winning string band Old Crow Medicine Show put down their fiddles and banjos and picked up chainsaws last week after deadly tornadoes hit middle Tennessee. “When I am doing […]
Since their formation in 1999, Raleigh bluegrass troubadours Chatham County Line, have achieved national embrace and unimaginable success in unexpected locales. Timeless, but hardly throwbacks, the four pickers adhere to the principle of honoring the […]
RICHMOND — As a child of the ’80s in Raleigh, The Connells were a household name. A band we knew that was going places. A band the older kids and babysitters wouldn’t shut up about. […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country band Alabama will mark their 50th year together with a new tour in 2019, more than a year after founding member Jeff Cook announced that he has Parkinson’s disease.The Grammy-winning trio […]
LOS ANGELES — Canadian rapper Drake, the world’s best-selling artist of 2016, looked on course to set records tumbling again on Friday with his soul-baring new album “Scorpion,” in which he reveals he is a […]
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