A memorial service originally planned this weekend for the former bassist of the rock band Weezer has been postponed, his family said.
A memorial service is being planned for this weekend for a former bassist of the rock band Weezer, weeks after he eerily foreshadowed his death.
Buddy Holly finally got his star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame on Wednesday, which would have been the singer-songwriter's 75th birthday.
The music video is almost iconic for the 1980s.
"Sing it if you know it," Pavement's Stephen Malkmus told the crowd Sunday night in Brooklyn, on the Williamsburg Waterfront, as the band prepared to play "Stop Breathing." Then he added, "I tell myself that before every song. 'Sing it like you know it! Be the ball! Be the snare, Steve!'"
Whether they're overcoming odds to reach stardom, battling inner demons or dealing with tragedy, the personal histories of our musical heroes are made for the big screen.
The Screening Room's Myleene Klass looks at the rise of acclaimed British music biopics.
Watch the video for M. Ward's song "Chinese Translation."
There's nothing new under the sun, the old saying goes. Then what can you say about hearing a song written in 2009 and swearing you grew up listening to it -- yet it doesn't sound like anything that's come before?
After days on end of grim and dreary news, the first weekend of spring is with us, and with its arrival comes, to many people, the yearly promise of new romance and a chance for lasting love.
There were plenty of stories earlier this week commemorating the 50th anniversary of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper -- a tragedy later dubbed "The Day the Music Died."
Even though she was 4 years old at the time, Deborah Gouin remembers it like it was yesterday.
Of all the unique oddities of my career, I am perhaps proudest of the fact that I am forever linked with Buddy Holly.
The facts are these: Just after 1 a.m. February 3, 1959, a three-passenger Beechcraft Bonanza went down about five miles northwest of Mason City Municipal Airport, near Clear Lake, Iowa. The plane crash took the lives of the pilot, Roger Peterson, and three musicians: Charles Hardin Holley, better known as Buddy Holly, 22; Ritchie Valens (originally Valenzuela), 17; and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, 28.
Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll and an inspiration for legions of musicians, died Monday at the age of 79
Saying Texas Tech's offense enjoys throwing the ball is like saying Lubbock, Texas, is a little proud of native son Buddy Holly, who is honored with a statue, a park bearing his name and a walk of fame.
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The diamond-studded watch Buddy Holly was wearing when he was killed in a plane crash has been sold at auction for $155,350.
Marshall Crenshaw likes things the way they are.
What are the greatest hits' greatest hits?
From Buddy Holly to Stevie Ray Vaughn, Texas musicians have often been like a bolt of lightning in musical history. Now, three brothers from the tiny Texas town of San Angelo are beginning to strum themselves a spot in the history books.
Fortune: Playlistupdated: Mon Oct 16 2000 00:01:00
Almost Famous Soundtrack DreamWorks Cameron Crowe's autobiographical flick about his years as a teen rock reporter in the '70s trots out a Bic-flicking mix of earphone-friendly numbers by the Who, ...
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