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FloydFest, featuring The Black Crowes, My Morning Jacket & more, canceled

Organizers of Virginia’s FloydFest recently revealed that plans for the fest were up in the air due to problems with their planned location. Well, now they’ve decided to cancel the festival altogether.This year’s festival, dubbed FloydFest 23: Forever, was supposed to take place July 26-30 in ...
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Watch Depeche Mode’s orchestra-accompanied performance on BBC Radio 2

Depeche Mode added some strings to their synths during a recent performance on BBC Radio 2.For the set, the "Personal Jesus" outfit was accompanied by BBC Concert Orchestra for renditions of the new single "Ghosts Again" and 1993's "Walking in My Shoes," as well ...
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New full moon brings new Peter Gabriel track, “i/o”

Thursday, April 6 marks another full moon, which means Peter Gabriel is once again treating us to another song off his upcoming album i/o, which is expected out sometime this year. The latest single is the Brightside Mix of the album’s title track, which features the Soweto Gospel Choir.“This month the ...
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On This Day, April 6, 2000: Joni Mitchell’s the subject of an all-star tribute in New York City

On This Day, April 6, 2000…An A-list group of artists paid tribute to Joni Mitchell at a concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City.  Artists who performed at the event included Elton John, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, Shawn Colvin, James Taylor and more, with Mitchell also performing, backed by a full ...
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Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider revealed as The Doll on ‘The Masked Singer’

Rock fans saw a familiar face on this week’s episode of Fox’s The Masked Singer. Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider was revealed to be The Doll, donning a costume that included a purple sparkly dress and heels.  “Let me tell you, Gene Simmons, Iggy Pop, no one can work pumps like I did,” ...
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Rod Stewart & Penny Lancaster donate teapot to help children born with cleft

Rod Stewart and wife Penny Lancaster have donated a white and gold teapot to raise money for a very good cause.The pair shared on Instagram that they’ve signed their “favourite teapot” and donated it to Smile Train UK’s celebri-TEA auction, with money raised helping "children born with cleft around the world," ...
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Nils Lofgren on the “long-distance collaboration” that became Crazy Horse’s ‘All Roads Lead Home’

The members of Crazy Horse — Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot and Nils Lofgren — recently released the new album All Roads Lead Home. It features each band member contributing three original songs, which they recorded separately during the pandemic. But just because they weren’t physically together doesn’t mean they weren’t working together on the final product.“It was ...
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Graceland reveals plans for 2023 Elvis Week

Elvis Presley’s life and legacy will once again be celebrated at Graceland this summer, with Elvis Week set to go down August 9-17 in Memphis, Tennessee.This year marks the 46th year of Elvis’ passing. Elvis Week will once again include a candlelight vigil at ...
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Mott the Hoople’s Ian Hunter on David Bowie: “He wasn’t a guy I would have hung out with”

Mott the Hoople and David Bowie are forever linked thanks to the 1972 classic “All The Young Dudes,” which Bowie wrote for the band. But it turns out the relationship between the artists didn’t last beyond the collaboration. "David was a different kettle of fish," Mott the Hoople’s Ian ...
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John Lennon’s “Lost Weekend” girlfriend May Pang opens up about relationship ahead of documentary

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, opening April 13, is a documentary about John Lennon’s relationship with his personal assistant May Pang. It began in 1973 when Lennon and Yoko Ono were on a break, with Ono encouraging Pang to become her husband’s girlfriend, although Pang wasn’t on board at first."I refused," Pang tells People. ...
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