It is many happy returns today to Mick Jones, guitarist with The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite, who was born on this day in 1955. He was...

After a two year enforced hiatus, the world's premier music festival is back with us! As ever, it isn't that straightforward. Three days...

The loss of Taylor Hawkins earlier this year at the age of just 50, is still reverberating around the musical world, but his family and...

Peter Gabriel's long time drummer, Manu Katche, seems to have confirmed that he will release his first album in twenty years, by the end...

Julian Lennon has released a cover version of Imagine, one of his fathers most famous songs. He had played it at a global fundraising...

The king of mellow 80s pop, Bruce Hornsby, has been moving in some fairly cool circles in recent years. There has been work with Bon Iver...

Sad news emerging this evening. Andy Fletcher, keyboard player with legendary band, Depeche Mode, has passed away today. A statement from...

Don McLean has pulled out of his planned appearance at the annual NRA (National Rifle Association) meeting in Texas, this weekend,...

The guitar that was said to be Kurt Cobain's favourite one, has sold at auction over the weekend for $4.5 million. The guitar, a 1969...

So, apparently it is 'Album Title Track Day' or something like that - at least that's what it said in a Pixies tweet today. Well, whether...

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou - a.k.a. Vangelis - has died in Paris at the age of 79. Vangelis was born in Agria, Greece and became...

He may not be a household name, but Ricky Gardiner played many well known riffs, especially with Iggy Pop and David Bowie. The guitarist...

Mary J. Blige was dubbed a Musical Icon at the MTV Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday. Blige, the Queen of Hip Hop Soul, was being celebrated...

40th Anniversary edition of classic final album by the classic line-up of The Clash. The album was the last to feature Joe Strummer, Mick...

It seems that the announcement the other day, that Duran Duran had been voted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame - was followed by more...

Kathleen Hanna, of Bikini Kill and the Julie Ruin, has leant her voice to a new benefit album - to raise money for Land Trust and the...

A Law Enforcement officer shot and killed a man who was thought to have been firing a weapon at this year's Mississippi Mudbug festival,...

There were tears of joy mixed with those of sadness, this weekend at the Country Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The Judds were...