Rock

Demi Lovato has said she was raped as a teenager, before suffering the same ordeal on the morning of her near-fatal drug overdose in 2018. Lovato made the harrowing claims in her new YouTube docu-series Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, which premiered at SXSW on Tuesday (March 16) and focuses on her ongoing battles with

Marvin Gaye was still in a pretty good place, personally and professionally, in early 1976 as he was prepping the release of his 14th album, I Want You. His last couple of albums – 1971’s What’s Going On and 1973’s Let’s Get It On – were critical and commercial hits, with the latter LP’s title track

Japanese Breakfast made her late-night TV debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (March 15) – you can watch it below. The first of two performances saw Michelle Zauner deliver a one-take performance of her new single ‘Be Sweet’, featuring some familiar extraterrestrial faces that appear in the song’s video. She also

Jon Bon Jovi recounted a brief but memorable moment from the early ’80s when Mick Jagger pretended to be his bandmate. The future rock star was then just an aspiring teenage musician working at the Power Station, an acclaimed recording studio in New York, run by his cousin, Tony Bongiovi. “They eventually paid me 50 bucks to be the gofer,”

Courtney Love has opened up on her battle with anaemia, revealing that she almost died after the condition led to her hospitalisation. Love was diagnosed with the condition, which causes sufferers to experience red blood cell deficiency, last August. READ MORE: Courtney Love interviewed – “I feel like the luckiest motherfucker in the history of rock’n’roll”

Some Van Halen fans, and even a former member of the band, have expressed displeasure about the length of time dedicated to Eddie Van Halen‘s death on last night’s Grammy Awards show. To which we say: Why were you expecting classic rock at the Grammys? And why do you care what the Grammys think? The

Muse have given their approval of Nandi Bushell‘s latest impressive cover, which saw the young musician take on the band’s ‘Plug In Baby’. READ MORE: 10-year-old drummer Nandi Bushell’s greatest cover songs The at-home Muse cover follows on from previous Bushell renditions of such classic songs as Led Zeppelin’s ‘Immigrant Song’, Blur’s ‘Song 2’, The Who’s

Late musicians John Prine and Little Richard were honored with special performances during the in memoriam segment of the 2021 Grammy Awards. Folk-rocker Brandi Carlile – herself a multi-Grammy winner – handled the tribute to Prine, delivering a solo acoustic performance of the singer-songwriter’s final song, “I Remember Everything.” The two musicians had collaborated on

Kanye West has won his 22nd Grammy award, tying Jay-Z for the most awards for a hip-hop artist. West won Best Contemporary Christian Music Album for 2019’s ‘Jesus Is King’ at last night’s (March 14) ceremony in Los Angeles. West wasn’t present at the ceremony to collect the award, and has been critical of the

Sally Grossman, the wife of Bob Dylan‘s one-time manager, Albert Grossman, and cover model for Dylan’s 1965 LP Bringing It All Back Home has died at the age of 81. Born in 1939, Sally grew up in Queens, N.Y., where she attended Adelphi and Hunter colleges. She’d eventually drop out, pursuing a career with Trans

Burna Boy celebrated his first Grammys win by performing at the premiere ceremony tonight (March 14) for the first time – scroll down the page to watch his performance now. The Grammys 2021 is currently underway in Los Angeles, with the main bulk of awards given out in the premiere ceremony. Harry Styles will kick

In the late ’60s and early ’70s, the open roads of America — particularly the American West — became a kind of shorthand for two things: white-knuckled driving movies and the concept of freedom itself. Richard C. Sarafian’s Vanishing Point, which premiered on March 13, 1971, exemplifies this as well as any film of the

On his return from the Isle Of Wight festival in September 1969, Bob Dylan moved himself, his wife and their three children – Sara was heavily pregnant with a fourth – from Woodstock to Greenwich Village. Settling into a townhouse on MacDougal Street, he tried to reconnect with the sort of life he had known

Fontaines D.C. have sponsored a new away kit from Dublin-based football club Bohemians to support a homelessness charity. The band’s name appears on the front of the new shirt, with 15% of proceeds going to Focus Ireland. You can order it here. In an interview with the Irish Times, the club’s Chief Operating Officer Dan

Kiss staged one of their more unusual concerts on Nov. 27, 1984, as two different lead guitarists took turns playing onstage. An expanded lineup featuring five musicians ended up coming out for the final bow. This was the band’s initial attempt at playing live with Mark St. John, who was hired as Kiss’ third lead guitarist

In late Autumn, the Tennessee-born songwriter Valerie June took to YouTube, live from her home in Brooklyn, NY. Seated fireside, and cross-legged, with an acoustic guitar, June wore two pink carnations in her dreadlocked hair and played “Stay”, the first track from her new record. Midway through the performance, still strumming, she told how her

Halsey is set to sell the art that she has painted for the first time through a non-fungible tokens (NFT) auction. As well as being a musician and writer, the pop star is a keen artist and has shown her creations through a livestream to announce her album ‘Manic’ in 2019 and as illustrations in

Bill Ward has revealed that he no longer has the ability to perform with Black Sabbath. “As far as touring with Black Sabbath, I don’t have the chops,” the drummer admitted during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk (as reported by BlabberMouth). “I don’t have the ability to drive a band like that on

Rising rapper CHIKA has released a brand new EP called ‘Once Upon A Time’ – scroll down the page to listen to it now. The Alabama artist has previously released two EPs in the last four years – first with her self-released ‘Full Bloom // A Poetry’ EP in 2017 and, in 2020, with ‘Industry Games’.