Tony Hicks, 80, is stepping away from the road for health reasons, and drummer Bobby Elliott, 84, has chosen to retire rather than carry on without him. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band announced the end of its touring career on Instagram.
Ariana Grande objected in the comments after a Team Trump TikTok set her single ‘We Can’t Be Friends’ to on-screen messaging about transgender athletes. It is her second such complaint in two months, and the latest in a long run of similar disputes across American pop.
Fourteen months after declaring himself completely in remission, the Def Leppard guitarist has revealed that his January 2025 donor transplant failed and his Hodgkin’s lymphoma is back. He says he is not slowing down.
Jack White answered Charley Crockett’s callout with the full lyrics to a 1984 John Wayne parody rap. Crockett fired back within hours. Here is how a dropped opening slot became one of the strangest arguments in music this summer.
Frank Beard, the famously clean-shaven drummer who powered ZZ Top for more than five decades, has died at 77 in hospice care at his Texas ranch. Billy Gibbons says the band will keep going, as Frank wished.
In a new Harper’s Bazaar cover profile, Céline Dion details the 17 years of stiff-person syndrome symptoms that went unnamed, the days she needed Valium to function, and the training regimen behind her Paris residency this September.
Hundreds gathered outside Swansea Minster as Bonnie Tyler was laid to rest. Inside, the talent scout who discovered her in a local club paid tribute — and friends remembered the woman behind one of rock’s most recognizable voices.
Contra-ICE, the collective behind the 15,000 ICE OUT towels handed out at Super Bowl LX, has assembled a 47-track benefit compilation featuring Tom Morello, Jello Biafra, Fishbone and Beastie Boy Ad-Rock. It lands October 2.
A jazz vibraphonist canceled one Christmas Eve gig after Trump’s name went up on the building. An anti-SLAPP dismissal later, the bill landed on the Kennedy Center’s desk.
Gervais mocked Grammy political speeches with a throwback quote, but commenters turned it back on him as ICE became pop music’s flashpoint.