Communist-run Cuba, which once frowned upon the Beatles as a decadent Western influence, on Thursday held an open-air covers concert in a Havana park to celebrating 50 years since the release of the band's landmark album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Beatlemania has flourished ...
Madonna and Elton John led tributes from around the world for British pop star George Michael, who died at his home near London on Sunday aged 53. "Farewell my Friend! Another Great Artist leaves us. Can 2016 F—- Off NOW?" Madonna wrote in a post ...
X Japan would have been hard-pressed to imagine a more impassioned following in its heyday, with the symphonic metal group's 1997 breakup in Tokyo taking on an air of national mourning. But could X Japan have been far bigger on the world stage? In a ...
Despite what his mammoth bass guitar sound may suggest, rock band Crypt City bassist Kentaro Nakao is comically self-deprecating at times. "This sounds terrible, but I have no commercial ambitions for this band," he says with a laugh. His band's new album, "Chant," will be ...
Jesse Hughes, frontman of the U.S. band whose Nov. 13 gig at the Bataclan theater in Paris was stormed by Islamic extremist gunmen who killed 89 people, says "my friends died very beautifully, they died very well, with great courage." The Eagles of Death Metal ...
Dan Hicks, a musician whose work in the 1960s helped define San Francisco's psychedelic sound, has died. He was 74. The singer, songwriter and bandleader — who led the musically eclectic band Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks — died Saturday after a two-year battle ...
British blues and rock legend Joe Cocker, whose hits included "You Are So Beautiful" and "Up Where We Belong," and whose contortionist style of performance was memorably parodied by John Belushi on "Saturday Night Live," has died. He was 70. His London-based agent, Barrie Marshall, ...
Singer Kyosuke Himuro, a veteran from the world of Japanese rock, announced Sunday he'll be taking a break from stage performances. The announcement came during a performance at the Shunan City Bunka Kaikan in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Sankei Shimbun reports that the decision to take a ...
Clad in a T-shirt for U.K. punk pioneers The Clash, 16-year-old Kyo Asada probably doesn't fit most people's image of a typical Bob Dylan fan. But judging from the crowd lined up outside Tokyo's Zepp DiverCity on the opening night of his latest Japan ...
The Fuji Rock Festival's pre-show matsuri kicked off tonight. Over the next three days, we'll be curating the related tweets and images coming from social media.
"I hadn't been anywhere before last year, I'd hardly left England. And now I'm going to Japan. I never thought I'd be going to a place like that. I think it is going to blow my mind." Jake Bugg is getting used to going places. ...
"Before the gig, we were quite intimidated: a lowly rock band performing in front of a god. After, we found we could do it, and that was the turning point for us." Going back to at least when Paul the Apostle saw the light on ...
