Rock and roll music

Chuck Berry’s final album was made on his own terms

Chuck Berry performs during a concert celebration for his 60th birthday in 1986 at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis,…

June 7, 2017

Legendary southern rocker Gregg Allman to be laid to rest

Southern rock icon Gregg Allman will be buried Saturday.Courtesy The Saturday afternoon service is private, with only about 100 mourners…

June 3, 2017

Music

Autopsy: Drugs taken by Chris Cornell didn’t cause death

Jeff Christensen/AP file <br><br>Autopsy reports show musician Chris Cornell had sedatives and an anxiety drug in his system on the…

June 2, 2017

Music

Stones’ Keith Richards auctions goods for autistic adults

The Stamford Advocate reports that Stones guitarist Keith Richards and his wife, Patti Hansen, are donating items from their Manhattan…

June 1, 2017

Music

Chris Cornell’s widow still awaiting details about his death

Chris Cornell, at left, and his wife, Vicky Karayiannis, attend the celebration of Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone, in…

June 1, 2017

Music

Bob Seger to kick off tour in August

The 72-year-old singer announced Wednesday that his Runaway Train tour will begin Aug. 24 in Toledo, Ohio. It currently has…

June 1, 2017

Music

Jerry Garcia’s guitar fetches $1.9M at auction

The Grateful Dead frontman’s guitar – named Wolf – was sold at the Brooklyn Bowl, a bowling alley, restaurant and…

June 1, 2017

Music

Gregg Allman’s rock odyssey spanned worlds

du1-i-syn Not long after the Allman Brothers Band first started liquefying rock, blues, country and soul into a sticky new…

May 31, 2017

Music

Music legend Gregg Allman has died at 69

Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers Band performs at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, as part of their…

May 27, 2017

Music

Chris Cornell’s wife writes note: ‘I know that was not you’

Vicky Cornell writes in the note published online by Billboard on Wednesday that she’s sorry she didn’t “see what happened…

May 25, 2017

Music

Chris Cornell’s family believes prescription drugs may have caused his death

Chris Cornell, 52, who gained fame as the lead singer of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, died at a hotel…

May 19, 2017

Music

Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, a founding father of grunge, dead at 52

Courtesy of chriscornell.com Police said a family friend called 911 around midnight after finding Cornell unresponsive on the bathroom floor…

May 18, 2017

Music

Rolling Stones heading back on the road, this time in Europe

The rock stalwarts said they will play 13 gigs in nine countries starting in September. The European sojourn will include…

May 14, 2017

Nation & World

Friend: Berry’s 1st album in decades is ‘sensational’

Joe Edwards, the owner of the Blueberry Hill club in St. Louis where Berry performed regularly, said the tracks he…

March 19, 2017

Music

Rock ’n’ roll legend Chuck Berry dies at 90

Chuck Berry, one of the founders of rock music and the sly poet laureate of songs about girls, cars, school…

March 18, 2017

Music

Rocker Gregg Allman cancels all tour dates for the year

The 69-year-old rocker posted Monday on his website that “it has been determined that Gregg will not be touring in…

March 14, 2017

Music

Grammy producer apologizes for Metallica, Caesar glitches

Lady Gaga, right, and James Hetfield of Metallica perform “Moth Into Flame” at the 59th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday…

February 15, 2017

Music

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers reunite for Grammy honor

Foo Fighters, Don Henley, Norah Jones, Gary Clark Jr., Jackson Browne, the Head and the Heart, and George Strait were…

February 11, 2017

Music

Pink Floyd releases new album

‘The Early Years’ covers 1967-1972

February 9, 2017

Music

Butch Trucks, founding member of Allman Brothers, dies at 69

Butch Trucks, one of the founding members of the Southern rock legends The Allman Brothers, died, Tuesday at his home…

January 25, 2017

Music

Big-voiced Dap-Kings soul singer Sharon Jones dies at 60

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings perform at the SPIN Party at Stubb’s during the South by Southwest music festival in…

November 19, 2016

Arts and Entertainment

Rocker Leon Russell dies in Nashville

‘A true patriarch has been lost’

November 13, 2016

Music

The Fabulous Thunderbirds coming to the Community Concert Hall

Talking music with The Fabulous Thunderbirds’ Kim Wilson

October 27, 2016

Music

Tupac Shakur, Pearl Jam lead rock hall of fame ballot

Nine of the 19 acts nominated are on the ballot for the first time, with Shakur and Pearl Jam in…

October 18, 2016