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The rock band Los Mesoneros were filling Caracas’ principal Alfredo Sadel Square with thousands of fans, earning four Latin Grammy nominations for their 2011 album Indeleble, and climbing to the top of their country’s music charts with pop-rock songs about love and infidelity, before they left Venezuela and started in …

UPDATE: A judge has thrown out Gaslamp Killer’s defamation suit against RaeAn Medina, a woman who had previously accused him of rape. The producer’s case against second accuser Chelsea Tadros is still continuing. “The Court’s tentative ruling excuses RaeAn Medina from our defamation lawsuit but allows us to proceed against …

Jeff Lynne and his Electric Light Orchestra have announced a summer 2018 North American arena tour, the Rock Hall-inducted band’s first U.S. trek in over 35 years. ELO’s first U.S. tour since 1981 kicks off August 2nd at Oakland, California’s Oracle Arena and spreads 10 shows over three weeks before …

Just as pop singing wasn’t the same after Elvis or the guitar didn’t recover after Hendrix, neither was rock orchestration the same after Paul Buckmaster, the half-British, half-Italian string arranger who died Tuesday at age 71 of undisclosed causes. Even if his name doesn’t ring any bells (or, more appropriately, …

Twenty years into her recording career, Lee Ann Womack found herself searching for a musical optimism she had in some ways lost. “When I was growing up in East Texas, I was full of hope [and] full of dreams,” she says. “I was at the beginning of something. I had …

The arguments of this edition of the Bootleg Series are familiar — a disparaged period in Dylan’s career (in this case, the gospel years) was better than you think; the studio recordings don’t tell the story as well as the live shows; he was so busy chasing the moment that …

Walker Hayes’ new album, Boom., hits stores December 8th, bringing with it a tracklist of genre-jumping songs about breakups, babies and beautiful women. His first major-label release in six years, the album has already spawned a hit in “You Broke Up with Me,” which entered the Top 20 this week. …

Producer and DJ Dillon Francis shows his versatility in the ridiculous new video for “Hello There,” his new single with Yung Pinch. Directorial duo the Dads helmed the clip, which parodies all the trappings of late-night talk shows. Francis plays not just the host of his own show, but also …

Foo Fighters will extend their tour in support of Concrete and Gold into 2018 after announcing a new spring and summer dates. The spring leg of the Concrete and Gold Tour kicks off April 18th in Austin, Texas and hits amphitheaters along the southern half of the U.S. until concluding …

Ronnie Van Zant’s bandmates were anxious as they prepared to board their leased plane at Greenville, South Carolina’s Downtown Airport on the afternoon of October 20th, 1977. And they had good reason to be: Lynyrd Skynyrd‘s rickety Convair 240, pushing 30 years old, was obviously past its prime. “We were …