• Insiders explain the worst Rock & Roll Hall of Fame snubs of all time

    Insiders explain the worst Rock & Roll Hall of Fame snubs of all time

    Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame voters reveal why so many legends are still locked out.
  • Whitney Houston makes history with 3rd diamond album

    Whitney Houston makes history with 3rd diamond album

    She's the first black artist to achieve the feat.
  • Five of Ozzy Osbourne’s wildest rock ’n’ roll moments

    Five of Ozzy Osbourne’s wildest rock ’n’ roll moments

    At nearly 72 years old — and now, reportedly, sober and battling Parkinson’s disease — Ozzy Osbourne still revels in his image as metal’s madman. A new documentary, “The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne,” premiering Monday on A&E, takes viewers through his roller-coaster life. “Most of the [outrageous] stories with Ozzy took place in the …
  • Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali dead at 68

    Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali dead at 68

    Frankie Banali, the drummer for heavy metal band Quiet Riot, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 68. His wife Regina wrote in a statement that he had been battling stage four pancreatic cancer since April 2019. The longtime Quiet Riot drummer also played with Billy Idol, W.A.S.P. and Faster Pussycat. “He put up an inspiringly …
  • Scammer impersonates Rolling Stone Ron Wood for online romance grift

    Scammer impersonates Rolling Stone Ron Wood for online romance grift

    A sticky-fingered scammer impersonated Rolling Stones star Ronnie Wood, duped a woman into a romance — and then tried to con her out of more than $8,000. Now, Stones lover Mary Downey tells Page Six she was left terrified by the ordeal. Downey — a casting director who worked on “Star Search” — tells us …
  • Lou Reed jams with John Mellencamp in previously unseen 1987 video

    Lou Reed jams with John Mellencamp in previously unseen 1987 video

    On September 17th, 1987, about 100 people went to the Bluebird night club in Bloomington, Indiana, with no idea they were about to witness a truly historic moment in rock history. Local band Ragin’ Texans was headlining that night, but it was two days before Farm Aid III at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska, and …
  • Creem magazine’s wild misfit days of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll

    Creem magazine’s wild misfit days of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll

    The office of Creem magazine was as unruly as the music that its writers covered. One day, when local hero Iggy Pop paid a visit to the mag’s Detroit headquarters, publisher/founder Barry Kramer sneaked up behind the proto-punk and dumped a trashcan full of garbage on his head. Then Kramer inexplicably exclaimed, “Hey, motherf - - ker! Did …
  • Inside the Go-Go’s vicious, drug-fueled ride to fame

    Inside the Go-Go’s vicious, drug-fueled ride to fame

    The Spice Girls and the Pussycat Dolls would be nothing without the Go-Go’s. Formed in Los Angeles in 1978, they were an all-women band that, over just seven years, wrote and performed some of the best remembered songs of the 1980s: “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed” and “Vacation.” All unforgettable. No all-girl …
  • Marilyn Manson announces new album ‘We Are Chaos’

    Marilyn Manson announces new album ‘We Are Chaos’

    Marilyn Manson has announced his 11th studio album, “We Are Chaos,” out September 11th via Loma Vista Recordings. The 10-track LP was produced by Manson and Grammy Award winner Shooter Jennings (Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker) and one of Manson’s self-portraits is featured on its cover. To accompany the sinister-sounding album, Manson released the lead single …
  • Motörhead to release massive ‘Ace of Spades’ 40th anniversary box set

    Motörhead to release massive ‘Ace of Spades’ 40th anniversary box set

    Motörhead’s commercial breakthrough, “Ace of Spades,” will be the subject of a massive reissue this fall with two previously unreleased live albums and a clutch of alternate versions of the album’s songs. The group is previewing the collection with a previously unheard, gritty live version of the ripping title track recorded at Belfast’s Whitla Hall …