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Hal Willner, who oversaw sketch music for "Saturday Night Live" and was a celebrated record producer, has died of coronavirus complications.

Rock legend Jim Steinman is dead at 73.

Apple is expected to replace the 16-year-old iTunes with standalone Music, TV and Podcast apps next Monday.

Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, the Notorious B.I.G., Whitney Houston, Doobie Brothers, and T. Rex are entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

A classic episode of “The Simpsons” featuring Michael Jackson’s voice will be removed from circulation, the show’s longtime executive producer, James L. Brooks, said.

Mojo Nixon, the unabashed cult favorite who recorded novelty hits like 'Elvis Is Everywhere' and 'Don Henley Must Die,' has died at the age of 66.

Monkees singer-songwriter Michael Nesmith has died at age 78, just weeks after the group played their final concert in Los Angeles.

Drummer Hal Blaine, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member who propelled dozens of hits as a member of the “Wrecking Crew,” died Monday at 90.

Netflix plans to release “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese” in 2019, Variety has exclusively learned.

MoFi claimed its expensive reissues were purely analog reproductions. It had been deceiving its customer base for years.

Robert Hunter, the poet and lyricist best known for his collaborations with the Grateful Dead has died at 78.

Kramer co-founded the iconic Detroit proto-punk outfit in 1963

Remembering the night the two guitar greats spent hours talking technique.

Ed King co-wrote the Southern rock classic "Sweet Home Alabama."

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Adam Schlesinger, a member of Fountains of Wayne and "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" songwriter, has died as a result of coronavirus complications.

Dennis Thompson, whose hard-pounding style helped give the MC5 its musical edge, died Thursday morning following complications from a heart attack.

Taylor Hawkins, who died Friday at age 50, gave the Foo Fighters' earnest anthems a palpable sense of fun, swagger and sex appeal.

He first attracted attention with the band Television, a fixture of the New York punk rock scene. But his music wasn’t so easily categorized.

Lindley, an in-demand musician who recorded with everyone Linda Ronstadt to Warren Zevon, played the searing guitar solo on Browne's "Running on Empty."

As the Band's chief songwriter, Robertson turned American folklore into modern myths, a knack that gave a timeless quality to songs such as "The Weight."

The wool-capped guitarist encouraged the Monkees to play their own instruments and went on to found a pioneering country-rock group in the early '70s.

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Peter Jackson has come aboard to direct a new Beatles documentary using the 55 hours of in-studio footage shot for the film “Let It Be.”

After decades of legal battles, the music of hip-hop pioneers De La Soul will finally be available on streaming services in March.

The alt-country singer-songwriter’s new album moves steadily and carefully, lingering on the conflicted emotions of his finely-etched tales and the band’s textured, elegant understatement.

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John Sinclair reigned as a nationally celebrated troubadour of youth rebellion during the psychedelic era.

Millions of music lovers knew Bobbie and her wondrous piano playing talents for more that 50 years of recording and touring with her brother.

The Pogues' Shane MacGowan, who died Thursday at age 65, fancied himself in the tradition of great, doomed Irish poets. He was right on both accounts.

The Shellac and Big Black frontman, who recorded classic albums by Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, and more, died of a heart attack

Neil Young's 1975 unreleased album 'Homegrown' will be released in 2020, including songs fans have never heard like "We Don't Smoke It."

Charley Pride, whose rich baritone voice and impeccable song-sense altered American culture, died Saturday, December 12, 2020, in Dallas, Texas of complications from Covid-19 at age 86.

John Lennon's late-’70s song 'Now and Then,' now featuring all four Beatles, serves as a fitting conclusion, conveying what the band both achieved and lost.

On Wednesday, the original members of Los Angeles punk band X dropped their first new studio album in 35 years, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

‘When the record company liked it, I was embarrassed – I was a hip new wave producer by then. I said I had a better song about a woman who was eaten by her dog’

Gary Young's Stockton, CA studio was where Pavement recorded their first EP and singles. He was 70.

Remembering the surf-rock pioneer, who died this weekend at the age of 81.

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