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On This Day, March 5, 2023…Gary Rossington, guitarist for Southern rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd, passed away at the age of 71.Rossington, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the band in 2006, was the last remaining original member of Skynyrd's lineup.Rossington played guitar on many of the band’s biggest hits, including "Simple Man" and "Sweet Alabama," both of which he co-wrote with Ronnie Van Zant, […]

Cover of Warren Zevon's 'Epilogue: Live at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival' (Omnivore Recordings) Warren Zevon’s final live performance is getting a special vinyl release.Epilogue: Live at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival will be released on two-LP opaque metallic silver vinyl on April 17.The album captures Zevon’s August 2002 performance at Canada's Edmonton Folk Music Festival, which turned out to be his final live performance ever. The reissue includes an etched […]

Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys performs during Riot Fest at Douglass Park on September 20, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Barry Brecheisen/Getty Images) The Beach Boys’ Bruce Johnston is leaving the band.The 83-year-old Johnston joined the group in 1965 as a fill-in for Brian Wilson during live performances. In a statement to Rolling Stone he says he's leaving the group in order to spend more time in the studio.“It’s time for Part Three of my […]

Sharon Osbourne attends the 68th GRAMMY Awards on February 01, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy) Sharon Osbourne has shared more details about the return of Ozzfest.During the latest episode of The Osbournes Podcast, Sharon says the plan is for the festival to return in 2027 in the Aston area of the late Ozzy Osbourne's hometown of Birmingham, England, before coming over to the U.S."We want […]

Billy Idol at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction (Disney/Eric McCandless) Billy Idol is subject of the new documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead, and during a recent appearance on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast, he detailed a drug-filled night when he almost wound up that way.He said it occurred when he returned to England after the success of 1983’s Rebel Yell and met up with some […]

Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden performs at London Stadium on June 28, 2025 in London, England. (Jo Hale/Redferns) Iron Maiden's scheduled concert at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles has been pushed back one day due to a scheduling conflict with a college football game.The show, originally set for Sept. 26, was set to take place on the same day that the USC Trojans take on the Oregon Ducks at nearby […]

: Mick Jagger (L) and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones performs during the final night of the Hackney Diamonds '24 Tour at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena on July 21, 2024 in Ridgedale, Missouri. (Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images) Mick Jagger is giving fans a little look at his latest Egyptian vacation.The Rolling Stones frontman posted a carousel of vacation photos on Instagram, captioning the shots, “Wandering through Egypt.”Photos include […]

Portrait of American blues musician John Hammond Jr, New York, USA, 16th March 2013. (Photo by Mick Gold/Redferns) Bonnie Raitt, George Thorogood and Hot Tuna’s Jorma Kaukonen are among the artists paying tribute to blues singer and guitarist John Hammond, who passed away Feb. 28.The Grammy-winning Hammond, who over the years played with such artists as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Levon Helm, Duane Allman and Stevie Ray Vaughan, was the […]

Bob Dylan at a press conference in London 1966. (Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images) A new exhibit exploring Bob Dylan’s career the year after he went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival is set to open this summer at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Thin Wild Mercury: Dylan 1966 is described as an immersive multimedia exhibition that features never-before-seen manuscripts, photographs and newly restored film footage from the era. […]