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Instead of shredding his guitar, Queen’s Brian May ripped his fat bottom. The Queen guitarist and astrophysicist broke the news with an Instagram selfie from the hospital wearing a face mask with a nurse standing behind him—writing that he ripped his “Gluteus Maximus to shreds in a moment of over-enthusiastic gardening.” “Reality check! For me,” …
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Brian Howe, singer for English rock group Bad Company, has died from cardiac arrest. He was 66. A family member tells TMZ that the supergroup frontman passed away Wednesday at his Florida home. The vocalist, who replaced Paul Rodgers as the band’s lead singer in 1986, was known to have heart issues and had suffered …
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Raconteurs co-lead singer Brendan Benson is dropping his seventh solo album, “Dear Life,” on Friday, but there’s no doubt which one of his gigs has his heart. “The Raconteurs is, like, my ultimate fantasy,” says Benson, 49, of the rock band he fronts with Jack White. “That’s what I’ve always wanted to do. I always …
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The Rolling Stones have released the brand-new song “Living in a Ghost Town” to tide fans over until they’re able to reschedule the upcoming leg of their No Filter tour. It’s their first original composition since “Doom and Gloom” and “One More Shot” came out on their 2012 compilation album “GRRR!,” although they did put …
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The Strokes named their latest album “The New Abnormal” well before knowing what our new normal would be. “It feels so prescient because of the parallel between something like coronavirus,” says Julian Casablancas, 41, lead singer and lyricist of the New York garage-rock band. “But the name came from the [2018 California] fires, when Malibu …
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Omnnivores, this is on you. According to Queen guitarist and armchair epidemiologist Brian May, the coronavirus outbreak should be blamed squarely on meat eaters. “This pandemic seemed to come from people eating animals, and it’s becoming more well known that eating animals is not the greatest thing for our health,” the 72-year-old tells NME. “We’ve …
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Jimmy Webb, a downtown fixture and enthusiastic salesman and buyer at iconic East Village rocker fashion haven Trash and Vaudeville, has died, his longtime friends confirm. He was 62. “We are all going to miss our wonderful friend Jimmy Webb,” Debbie Harry, legendary Blondie frontwoman and Webb muse, 74, told The Post. “There goes a …
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Alan Merrill, who co-wrote the smash-hit Joan Jett anthem “I Love Rock and Roll,” has died from coronavirus complications, his daughter said. The Bronx-born rocker, 69, died Sunday morning, daughter Laura Merrill posted to Facebook. “I was given 2 minutes to say my goodbyes before I was rushed out,” she wrote in a heartbreaking post. …
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Jackson Browne was suspicious that something was not right when he started feeling ill in recent weeks. “As soon as I had a small cough and a temperature, I tested [for COVID-19],” he says. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee tells Rolling Stone that he has tested positive for the coronavirus and is …
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HBO has announced that the 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony has been rescheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7. The ceremony, which had been scheduled for May 2, was postponed March 13 due to the coronavirus pandemic. “The health and safety of our fans and visitors is our highest priority,” the …
Instead of shredding his guitar, Queen’s Brian May ripped his fat bottom. The Queen guitarist and astrophysicist broke the news with an Instagram selfie from the hospital wearing a face mask with a nurse standing behind him—writing that he ripped his “Gluteus Maximus to shreds in a moment of over-enthusiastic gardening.” “Reality check! For me,” …
