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The last surviving original member of the Band died on Tuesday. He was a master on keys and saxophones who could conjure a panoply of scenes and eras. Ever so [...]

When Deseree Fitzpatrick was admitted to a Priory hospital after years of struggles with her mental health, she told her family she felt privileged the NHS was paying for her […]

Jerry Garcia died in 1995. The band bade fans farewell in 2015. This weekend, Dead & Company will close out its Final Tour. Why can't we stop quitting one of [...]

Byline: Paul Gallagher Good morning. Our top story reports that the Scott Morrison government paid millions to a businessman in Nauru to provide offshore processing services -- even after he [...]

Byline: Guardian staff and agencies More than a thousand mourners gathered in Graceland on a chilly, grey Sunday morning to pay their respects to singer Lisa Marie Presley at the [...]

Byline: Alexis Petridis Of all the career opportunities that could present themselves to an up-and-coming guitarist in the mid-60s, the offer of replacing Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds was one [...]

Byline: Adrian Horton Hollywood is mourning Olivia Newton-John, who died on Monday at her southern California ranch at the age of 73. The Grease star and chart-topping singer, who publicly [...]

Byline: Kate Hutchinson 'She's like the Michelangelo of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll,' Pamela Des Barres once said of her friend and peer in penis admiration, Cynthia Albritton. Better known as [...]

Byline: Rick Koster Jan. 5I have this theory that, no matter how successful a musical artist/songwriter becomes, there's always going to be a nostalgic fondness for playing tunes by other [...]

Byline: Andrew Pulver School of Rock star Jack Black was among those paying tribute to Kevin Clark, who as a 13-year-old had played drummer Freddy in the hit 2003 film, [...]

Forty years after the musician's death, a writer revisits conversations with the former Beatle about the long period of seclusion and self-reflection that inspired his breakthrough as a solo artist, [...]

The Michigan National Guard posthumously recognized Staff Sgt. Justin Skaggs' legacy of selflessness by presenting his family with the Michigan National Guard Lifesaving Medal in a ceremony at Camp Grayling [...]

LONDON -- In 1996, the rock star Prince released the album ''Emancipation,'' his first record since the end of a rancorous contractual dispute with his label, Warner Bros. In a [...]

Byline: Chris Richards 'My musical quest (is) to get more and more purity into the music.' That's something Tom Petty told me over the telephone once. Years later, I wonder [...]

Tom Petty, who died on Monday, was one of the quintessential American rock stars of the late 20th century. The remarkable streak of hit singles he wrote and recorded between [...]

Byline: Bert Stratton These days, it seems like everybody's kid is in show business. At a Sabbath dinner in Cleveland, a lawyer told me his son was doing comedy in [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDDavid Bowie made pop of impassioned critical distance. He told a good musical story by standing outside of it and knew how to make you think about the artist's [...]

Byline: Harriet Gibsone Rock legend David Bowie has died, 18 months after being diagnosed with cancer. His son Duncan Jones first confirmed the news, and shortly after Facebook, Twitter and [...]

35 Years Ago John Lennon would have turned 75 on Friday. He was two months past his 40th birthday when he was murdered as he entered his apartment building, the [...]

''It is a pretty momentous occasion,'' Sean Eden of Luna calmly observed between songs at the band's concert on Thursday evening in McCarren Park in Greenpoint. It was a homecoming [...]

The words ''I'm not that interested in guitars'' sound strange coming from Pat Metheny, a 20-time Grammy-winning guitarist. But he can explain. ''Musical instruments are just tools,'' Mr. Metheny said [...]

The first time Moses Sumney, a rising young musician, played a Sofar Sounds show, the greenroom was someone's bedroom. There was no bar, only tap water from the kitchen, and [...]

A couple of years ago, when the Pixies were almost 300 concerts into their second life as reunited heroes of alternative rock, they played a casino in Canada. The symbolism [...]

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. -- He was that impossible rarity in modern music, a figure at once indelibly international and utterly local, whose shows in his hilltop barn drew fans and musicians [...]

Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard An energetic show that draws on the graphic legacy of 1960s rock 'n' roll posters is wrapping up this weekend at a gallery in the [...]

Byline: Pete Cashmore Keir Hardie Hall Working Men's Club in Norwich looks like . . . well, a working men's club in Norwich. But on this particular Sunday, the clientele [...]

AUCTIONS London -- British newspapers are reporting that one of John Lennon's teeth sold at auction for a remarkable £19,500 ($31,813) Sunday. The buyer was Canadian dentist Michael Zuk, 49, [...]

It's the year of the woozy in indie rock, the time to get lost. Everywhere, everywhere is sludge. The haze began a few years ago as a response to a [...]

Reunited and it feels so good: four members of the vintage-1990s rock band Hole, which never got along as smoothly as any Peaches & Herb song, are planning to reconvene [...]