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The Beach Boys perform onstage in circa 1964 in California. (L-R) Dennis Wilson, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, Brian Wilson, Mike Love; Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images The Beach Boys and Mike Love have paid tribute to their former bandmate Brian Wilson, who passed away at age 82.A post on The Beach Boys' social media accounts shares that the band is "heartbroken" by Wilson’s passing, calling him, "our cousin, our friend, and our […]

Manny Carabel/Getty Images for ABA Millions of fans have loved The Doobie Brothers hits since the '70s. and now the band’s main songwriters — Tom Johnston, Pat Simmons and Michael McDonald — are set to be honored for their work with induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday night at a gala in New York City.Johnston tells ABC Audio the honor is "pretty amazing," especially when you "think of all […]

Al Jardine and Brian Wilson; Credit: Mary Ann Jardine More tributes for Brian Wilson continue to pour in. His family announced on Wednesday that the Beach Boys mastermind had died at age 82.In a statement, Beach Boys founding member Al Jardine said, "Brian Wilson, my friend, my classmate, my football teammate, my Beach Boy bandmate and my brother in spirit, I will always feel blessed that you were in our […]

Tributes poured in for Beach Boys singer Brian Wilson on Wednesday following his death at age 82.The singer's family shared the news of his death on social media, saying they are "heartbroken" and "sharing our grief with the world."Among those who posted messages and memories of Wilson were Elton John, Mick Fleetwood and actor John Cusack, who played Wilson in the 2014 film Love and Mercy.Elton shared on Instagram that Wilson was "always […]

Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings at the First Time Around Tour (2006), courtesy of Paquin Artists Agency Randy Bachman revealed in March that he and his former The Guess Who bandmate Burton Cummings were talking about hitting the road together. And while they haven’t announced a tour yet, they have booked their first performance together as The Guess Who in over two decades.The duo, responsible for writing some of the band's biggest hits, including "These […]

Rhino Genesis has once again pushed back the release of the box set celebrating the 50th anniversary of their sixth studio album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.The band originally announced the box set in November 2024 for a planned March 2025 release. It was then delayed until June, and now they've announced it won’t be coming out until the fall."We deeply apologise to fans who've been kept in The Waiting Room to […]

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc Here Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video is now, with 2 billion views on YouTube.The iconic '90s clip, which was first uploaded to YouTube in 2009, is Nirvana's first to cross the 2 billion views threshold. It previously hit 1 billion views in 2019.In the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video, Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl are seen rocking out in a grimy gymnasium alongside anarchist […]

Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures Back in 2012, Rod Stewart published Rod: The Autobiography, in which he detailed his life in the fast late as a global rock star. Fans will soon be able to get a slightly different take on the last 25 years of his life — from his wife.Penny Lancaster is Rod's third wife, the mother of his two youngest children and a celebrity in her own […]

Disney/Eric McCandless The new Billy Idol documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead debuted at the Tribeca Festival Tuesday, and in it the rocker reveals how he discovered he had a long-lost son he never knew about.Idol was already a father to son Willem Broad with ex Perri Lister and daughter Bonnie Blue Broad with Linda Mathis. But after Bonnie took a DNA test, she discovered there was another member of the family."My husband just surprised me with […]