Rock

Tom Petty was ready to duke it out on the final episode of Garry Shandling’s The Larry Sanders Show, which aired 23 years ago on May 31, 1998. Appearing as himself on the show, Petty sparked a scuffle first with actor Greg Kinnear and then with country singer Clint Black over who would be singing Larry’s farewell song. “I

Rico Nasty has teased a mysterious new project that appears set to arrive this summer called ‘Rx’. Posting on Instagram, the musician shared a cryptic post which showed an image of some glowing pills spilled out from a jar labelled ‘Rx Pharmacy’ with Rico’s name underneath. Nasty captioned the post” “Rx. This summer”, and tagged

The solo acts, the side projects, the supergroups: the Genesis tree has many branches. Not all of these records earned much fanfare but most have been interesting for one reason or another. (Does anyone but Tony Banks remember the keyboardist’s underrated, surprisingly hooky 1983 LP, The Fugitive?) Whatever the origin — probably their respective shifts toward brighter,

Lion Babe have shared a spellbinding new track called ‘Signs’ – you can listen to it below. The freshly squeezed slice of R&B is a mesmerising one of a kind sonic that features Ethiopian-raised and Brooklyn-based music artist Siimbiie Lakew. ‘Signs’ arrives a month after the alt-R&B/soul duo – comprised of singer-songwriter and performance artist Jillian

In a new interview, Alice Cooper described the moment his manager Shep Gordon was asked to take on the Beatles – and why he refused. In a new episode of Joe Bonamassa’s Live From Nerdville podcast, Cooper said he was in Gordon’s office, presumably during the period when the British band were attempting to rearrange their business concerns, when the

The night before recording their 1978 album Lanquidity, Sun Ra and his Arkestra filmed a brief live spot for Saturday Night Live. Given a window of only four minutes, Sun Ra crammed three classics into the performance: Space Is The Place, The Sound Mirror, which featured a typically cosmic monologue from Ra himself, and Watusa.

Jorja Smith performed a surprisingly intimate set for Radio 1’s Big Weekend on Friday (May 28), including a Shaybo team-up for ‘Bussdown’. Playing in a colourfully lit BBC Radio Theatre, Smith joined Shaybo – described as packing “sure-fire punchlines that have shown she’s capable of great things to come” in the NME 100 2021 list

Grammy-winning pop, country and gospel singer B.J. Thomas has died at age 78 following a bout with lung cancer. He died earlier today at his home in Arlington, Texas. Thomas, best known for hits like “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” and “Hooked on a Feeling,” announced in March that he had been diagnosed with

For John Lennon’s 30th birthday, Yoko Ono presented him with a sensory box. Fingers could be inserted into holes containing different materials: liquid, say, or a spike. It was a hit, though you’d be forgiven for thinking the birthday boy might’ve preferred something less surprising. After all, it’d been a turbulent old year. The Beatles

A Florida gig promoter has come up with a way of making sure that as many fans as possible attending an upcoming punk show have been vaccinated. Paul Williams of Leadfoot Productions is putting on a gig at VFW Post #39 in St. Petersburg, Florida on June 26, featuring performances from Teenage Bottlerocket, MakeWar and Rutterkin. In

Graham Nash recalled the “emotionally destroying” experience that reduced him to tears in the studio for the only time in his life. The moment took place when Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were working on their landmark 1970 album Deja Vu. In a new interview on Apple Music’s Zane Lowe Show, Nash remembered the challenge of working

Remarkably, given their long shadows and proximity to one another around Nashville, good friends John Hiatt and Jerry Douglas had never recorded together until now. They chose to mark the occasion in style by commandeering RCA’s fabled Studio B – birthplace of the late-’50s Nashville Sound and once home to Elvis, Dolly, the Everlys, Roy

No Rome has shared a remix of A.G. Cook‘s song ‘Windows’ – you can listen to it below. The Dirty Hit artist’s new version of the track appears on Cook’s new ‘Apple vs 7G’ collection, which comprises reworkings of cuts from the producer’s two 2020 albums ‘Apple’ and ‘7G’. Arriving yesterday (May 28), the record also features Caroline

Mike Patton has admitted to urinating on Axl Rose’s teleprompter, while also revealing the motive behind his act. The incident took place in 1992 when Patton’s band Faith No More was opening for Guns N’ Roses during their co-headlining tour alongside Metallica. “It was such a drag touring with [GNR], I hate to say it. They treated

Rufus Wainwright has shared a cover of a classic Judy Garland song to mark Pride Month – scroll down the page to listen to it now. Pride Month will begin next week on June 1 and celebrates the LGBTQ+ community, with Pride Day taking place on June 28. Wainwright has shared his take on Garland’s

Slash and Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy said he had to hide tears of emotion during his tryout sessions with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones in 2008. Kennedy was one of several singers who were auditioned following the Led Zeppelin reunion concert of the previous year. After Robert Plant refused to take part in any

Bleachers debuted their new song ‘How Dare You Want More’ on Wednesday’s episode of The Tonight Show. The Jack Antonoff-fronted band debuted the track, which leans heavily into US classic rock, ahead of releasing their new album ‘Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night’. You can watch the performance in full below. Earlier this month, Bleachers also