Hooray For Earth announce breakup
New York synthrockers Hooray For Earth have called it quits. The band announced that Monday night’s show at Brooklyn’s Glasslands would be “the last Hooray For Earth show ever. XO HFE.” Prior to the...
View ArticleR.I.P. Bobby Keys, Rolling Stones saxophonist, dead at 70
Bobby Keys, the longtime saxophonist for The Rolling Stones, died Tuesday at the age of 70, according to Nashville Scene. A native of Texas, Keys was a frequent collaborator of The Stones for over five...
View ArticleR.I.P. Ian McLagan, Small Faces and Faces keyboardist, dead at 69
Ian McLagan, the keyboardist of legendary rock band Small Faces, and later the supergroup Faces, has died at the age of 69. According to the Austin-American Statesman, McLagan was hospitalized in...
View ArticleR.I.P. John Hampton, White Stripes and Replacements producer dead at 61
John Hampton, the Grammy Award-winning producer and engineer, died Friday from complications of cancer, according to Memphis Commercial Appeal. He was 61. Over the course of 40-year career, Hampton...
View ArticleR.I.P. Joe Cocker, legendary singer dead at 70
Legendary singer Joe Cocker died Monday at the age of 70, according to ITV News. His longtime agent, Barrie Marshall, confirmed that Cocker died in his Colorado home from an as-yet-undisclosed illness....
View ArticleR.I.P. Christine Cavanaugh, voice of Babe, Rugrat’s Chuckie, has died
Celebrated voice actress Christine Cavanaugh has died. An obituary published Tuesday on the Los Angeles Times website notes that Cavanaugh’s death occurred on Monday, December 22nd, though the actual...
View ArticleR.I.P. Tim Drummond, longtime bassist for Neil Young and Bob Dylan has died
Photo by Paul Natkin Bassist Tim Drummond, who over his five-decade career performed alongside Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and Crosby Stills & Nash, has died at the age of 75. Drummond first worked with...
View ArticleUltra Music Festival co-founder Alex Omes found dead
Concert promoter Alejandro “Alex” Omes, a co-founder of Miami’s Ultra Music Festival, was found dead Monday. He was 43 years old. A Miami-Dade County medical examiner confirmed news of Omes’ passing,...
View ArticleR.I.P. Kim Fowley, record producer and Runaways manager dead at 75
Legendary producer and songwriter Kim Fowley has died following a bout with bladder cancer. He was 75 years old. Fowley was involved in the music business since the 1960s, producing everything from...
View ArticleR.I.P. ASAP Yams, co-founder of ASAP Mob, dead at 26
ASAP Yams, co-founder and mastermind behind the ASAP Mob crew, has died at the age of 26. No details surrounding the death are currently public, though members of the ASAP crew and fellow hip-hop...
View ArticleR.I.P. George Dickerson, Blue Velvet actor dead at 81
Actor George Dickerson, perhaps best known for his role as Detective John Williams in David Lynch’s cult classic Blue Velvet, succumbed to a long-fought illness on Saturday January 10th at the age of...
View ArticleR.I.P. Dallas Taylor, drummer for Crosby Stills Nash & Young has died
Dallas Taylor, the drummer for Crosby Stills Nash & Young, died Sunday in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 66 years old. A native of Denver, Colorado, Taylor drummed on Crosby Stills & Nash’s...
View ArticleR.I.P. Edgar Froese, Tangerine Dream founder dead at 70
Edgar Froese, the founder of pioneering electronic band Tangerine Dream, has died at the age of 70. According to Tangerine Dream’s Facebook page, Froese passed away “suddenly and unexpectedly” from the...
View ArticleAvi Buffalo announces breakup
Long Beach indie rock outfit Avi Buffalo has called it quits. Frontman Avi Zahner-Isenberg announced the decision Monday night via a lengthy Facebook post, writing, “I started it when I was a wee-15...
View ArticleGrammys’ In Memoriam tribute omitted GWAR’s Dave Brockie, Stooges’ Scott...
Photo by Katie Schuering GWAR may have given Dave “Oderus Urungus” Brockie a Viking sendoff, but the Grammys didn’t even give him a memoriam card. Brockie was just one of a number of names left off...
View ArticleR.I.P. Louis Jourdan, star of Octopussy and Gigi, dead at 93
Actor Louis Jourdan has died at the age of 93. Variety confirms that the French-born actor passed away Saturday at his Beverly Hills home. Jourdan is best remembered for his role as the villainous...
View ArticleR.I.P. Lesley Gore, singer of “It’s My Party”, has died at 68 years old
Lesley Gore, the pop singer known widely for her 1963 hit “It’s My Party”, died Monday at the age of 68. Gore lost her battle to lung cancer at New York University Langone Medical Center, her partner...
View ArticleR.I.P. Sam Simon, co-creator of The Simpsons, has died at 59
Sam Simon, the co-creator and original screenwriter of The Simpsons, has died at the age of 59. He had been fighting colorectal cancer, a battle which he lost Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. Along...
View ArticleR.I.P. Daevid Allen, founder of Gong and Soft Machine, has died
Daevid Allen, founder of progressive and psychedelic rock bands Gong and Soft Machine, has died at the age of 77. The Australian musician lost his long battle cancer. His son Orlando made the...
View ArticleR.I.P. Toto bassist Mike Porcaro has died at the age of 59
Mike Porcaro, the longtime bassist of contemporary rock band Toto, has died at the age of 59. Porcaro had been battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) for the last several years....
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