AP - Jan 28, 2009
It s been 50 years since a single-engine plane crashed into a snow-covered Iowa field, instantly killing three men whose names would become enshrined in the history of rock n roll. The passing decades...
More »Reuters - Jan 27, 2009
One snowy night 50 years ago, Buddy Holly took off on a small plane and died a few minutes later when it crashed in an Iowa field. A tragic icon was born, but so was a half-century of litigation and...
More »AP - Jan 12, 2008
Buddy Holly s widow is trying to keep the woman whose name was made famous by the 1950s hit song Peggy Sue from selling a book about her friendship with the rocker. Maria Elena Holly says Peggy Sue Gerron...
More »E! Online - Aug 28, 2007
Another health scare for Bo Diddley. The 78-year-old rock 'n' roll pioneer was listed in stable condition at a Florida hospital Tuesday after suffering a heart attack, according to his publicist...
More »AP - May 25, 2007
Don t plan on strolling down the Buddy Holly Walk of Fame the next time you re in his West Texas birthplace. The City Council has rescinded a 1995 resolution that created the name. The vote came Thursday...
More »AP - Apr 23, 2007
John Hiatt slept under a park bench on his first night in Nashville in 1979. Now the city has given the singer-songwriter the star treatment. On Sunday, Hiatt was among six inductees to the Music City...
More »AP - May 3, 2006
A reference to Buddy Holly on an upcoming Dixie Chicks album isn t setting right with brothers of the 1950s music legend. In Lubbock or Leave It, Natalie Maines, a native of this West Texas city, sings...
More »AP - Oct 12, 2005
Colin Meloy, songwriter for The Decemberists, salts his tunes with antique words — palanquin, gadabout, folderol, coronal — more likely to be heard in a college lit class than leaping off the...
More »Reuters - Sep 20, 2005
While lacking the then-and-now punk rock or new wave themes of the past few years, Saturday s fifth annual Inland Invasion at the Hyundai Pavilion in Glen Helen, Calif., staged by southern California...
More »Reuters - Dec 17, 2004
Never one to rest on his laurels, Elvis Costello has a variety of projects on the horizon, including a 10-inch vinyl EP of previously unreleased recordings, two DVDs and a 2005 itinerary packed with...
More »AP - Dec 15, 2004
Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can t get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV s Pimp My Ride ? Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician Xzibit was before becoming an actor...
More »Yahoo! Music - Jul 24, 2004
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready will preview tracks from the group s upcoming double-disc concert set Live at Benaroya Hall via a live, one-hour radio broadcast beginning 8 p.m. ET Sunday. A band...
More »Reuters - Jul 17, 2004
It s the sound of the instrument and the way the neck feels. It s unlike any other instrument. So says Bryan Adams of the Fender Stratocaster. My pride and joy is a 1960 cherry sunburst that I bought...
More »AP - Jun 11, 2004
A 1929 film clip of country music legend Jimmie Rogers. Scratchy recordings of Mississippi blues godfather Robert Johnson. Images of folk icon Bob Dylan s early performances in Twin Cities cafes. A...
More »Reuters - Jun 10, 2004
Ray Charles was one of American music s great innovators, blending the gospel of the black church with the sensuality of the blues to create an emotionally raw genre called soul. He died on Thursday...
More »Reuters - May 31, 2004
Obsessives often make excellent indie-label operators, so Mike Stax probably has a good shot at success. Stax has been editing and publishing his San Diego-based magazine Ugly Things for 21 years. Christened...
More »AP - Apr 8, 2004
Niki Sullivan, who played guitar as a member of Buddy Holly and The Crickets, died in his sleep Tuesday at his home, family members said. He was 66. Sullivan played on 27 of 32 songs Holly recorded...
More »AP - Mar 24, 2004
The Big Bopper s only son has been sued by four of his half-siblings, who say he has unrightfully claimed all of the royalties to his father s songs. The four siblings are the children of Adrianne Teetsie...
More »AP - Jan 23, 2004
On January 23rd, 1958, Brunswick Records released Maybe Baby backed with Tell Me How by The Crickets. In 1970, singer Judy Collins was denied permission to sing her testimony at the Chicago Seven trial...
More »Reuters - Dec 2, 2003
Candid photographs of 1950s rock pioneers Elvis Presley , Buddy Holly and Bobby Darin , snapped by a high-school photographer and kept in storage for 40 years, went on display for the first time Tuesday...
More »Reuters - Nov 1, 2003
One side of the ailing music business remains robust, according to Paul Anka : the licensing side. And he would know. The legendary writer/performer of such late- 50s/early- 60s teen classics as Puppy...
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