A planned TV show for CBS about the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland, California, has been scrapped after members of the Bay Area arts community expressed their outrage and reservations over the project. The show was announced last week as part of a new deal between CBS and …

Red Hot Chili Peppers announced Sunday that the band have parted ways with guitarist Josh Klinghoffer after 10 years and have reunited with the musician that Klinghoffer replaced, John Frusciante. “Josh is a beautiful musician who we respect and love,” Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote on Instagram. “We are deeply …

“Being in Queen now feels like the old times because it has become as big as the old times,” Brian May told Rolling Stone in 2017. The band was still a year out from the release of Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic that would raise its pop-cultural capital even further. But …

Billy Joel rattling off historic names and events most people under 30 have never heard of hardly seemed like the formula for a hit song, especially in 1989 when the charts were dominated by the likes of Poison, Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson, Debbie Gibson, and New Kids on the Block. …

The Roots have shared their new song titled “Feel It (You Got It),” the hip-hop group’s first new music in two years. The track first appeared this fall when Questlove debuted the song at his alma mater The Philadelphia High School For Creative & Performing Arts for Citizen Bank’s Made …

Brian Eno envisions “a few more years of Brexit purgatory” on his bouncy, satirical new song “Everything’s on the Up With the Tories.” The track, which also touches on income inequality, unemployment and healthcare, blasts the British Conservative Party ahead of the U.K. general election on Thursday, December 12th. “Everything’s …

Against Me! are set to embark on a North American tour next spring — and they’re plotting new music. The trek kicks off March 11th at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and wraps with a set April 4th at the Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival in Atlantic City, …

Caroll Spinney, the longtime Sesame Street puppeteer who voiced the characters of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for nearly 50 years, died Sunday at the age of 85. The Sesame Workshop confirmed that Spinney died at his home in Connecticut following a lengthy battle with dystonia. After initially meeting …

Two months after Chile first erupted with nationwide protests against austerity, the Latin Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Mon Laferte shows support for the cause with her new song, “Plata Ta Tá.” The title is a play on the sounds of a “cacerolázo,” or a Latin American style of protest in which people …

In May 1982, San Francisco-area band Huey Lewis and the News notched their first Top Ten pop hit with “Do You Believe in Love,” a song written by Shania Twain’s future (and now former) producer and husband, “Mutt” Lange. Taken from the group’s sophomore LP, Picture This, the song was …