Rock-N-Roll News Archives

NEW YORK: A major new photography exhibit is built around the idea that the eyes are just as important as the ears for appreciating and understanding rock 'n' roll.

It was another night of mixing and matching for rock 'n' roll royalty at New York's Madison Square Garden, with U2 sharing the stage with Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger and the Black Eyed Peas.

The event: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band , Stevie Wonder , Simon & Garfunkel, Crosby, Stills & Nash and numerous guests kicked off a two-night celebration, playing both their own songs and the music that inspired them.

Rock music has been a big part of the movies since Blackboard Jungle made Bill Haley a legend in 1955, and although the marriage of the two mediums hasn't always been a happy one , it's also produced some cinematic classics.

1971 - Duane Allman was killed when he was involved in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia.

The E. Pat Larkins Center in Pompano Beach was filled with voices of hope and encouragement, looks of staunch determination and women donned in Sunday-best worthy hats, gloves and attire on Oct.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band cancelled their Kansas City tour stop last night on short notice due to a death in the family.

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, seen performing in June, are slated to play Madison Square Garden in New York as part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts this week.

Bruce Springsteen canceled a performance in Kansas City after police say a road crew member was found dead in a hotel.

"If the Hollies were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, my heart would be full of good feeling for Allan Clarke, one of the most underrated rock 'n' roll singers," says Graham Nash.

In pop, as in the sporting world that provided a model for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, one fan's dream is another's disappointment.

Steven Van Zandt wonders if Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are part of a dying breed in rock 'n 'roll. During an in-person interview during the South By Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas, in March, as well as during a presentation that was open to conference attendees, guitarist Van Zandt sounded the alarm about the dangers of ...

Johnny Cash gives the camera "the bird." John Lennon sports a New York City tank top on a high-rise rooftop.

By DAN DELUCA NEW YORK - The booklet that accompanies Do What You Want, Be Who You Are , the new four-CD box set devoted to the music of Daryl Hall and John Oates, is full of testimonials to the Philadelphia-bred soul-pop tandem.

Uncle Monk, an acoustic duo featuring Claudia Tienan and Tom Erdelyi performs Thursday at Steve's Guitars in Carbondale.

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1958 - Buddy Holly and the Crickets recorded "True Love Ways," "Moondreams," "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," and "Raining in my Heart" his last studio session.

A couple dance as the Swingin' Pedestrians perform last month at the Freakin' Frog.

When John Urso left Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago Sunday, he carried two shirts carefully hung and wrapped in plastic -- shirts too small for him to ever wear.

A clump of hair believed to have been trimmed from Elvis Presley's head when he joined the Army in 1958 has sold for $15,000 at a Chicago auction house.

Today is Sunday, Oct. 18, the 291st day of 2009 with 74 to follow. The moon is new.

Elvis is alive, and his half-sister is coming to town. It's a long story, involving conspiracies and cover-ups, love-children, DNA tests and the courts.

Share + Oct 16, 2009 9:08 pm US/Central 1 of 1 A clump of Elvis Presley's hair is the most offbeat -- and potentially expensive -- item from a fan's collection to be auctioned off in Chicago later this month.

Thursdays can be rough nights to navigate for music-lovers, and doubly so during a festival.

Moldovan officials say the explosion of a grenade at a concert in downtown Chisinau on October 14 that left some 40 people injured was an "act of terror," RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports.

The bluesy, punkabilly Dex Romweber Duo is a must-see for any roots rocker. Fronted by Dexter Romweber, the brother/sister pair has been cited as a major influence by numerous artists such as Cat Power, Neko Case, The Black Keys, and Jack White.

Ah, Bonnaroo . Was that really four months ago already? I remember walking in circles around Centeroo one night and seeing the same fried dough/shish kebab vendor over and over again... or was it ? My foot really hurt but I didn't know why.

Elvis Box Set Coming In December Posted by Aaron Mayagoitia on 10.14.2009 Royal treatment for the King of Rock 'n' Roll... Elvis Presley's 75th birthday will be marked by Legacy Recordings with a 100-song box set called Elvis 75: Good Rockin' Tonight.

THE Boy Who Trapped the Sun was last seen in Cornwall when he toured the region with Rob Sawyer back in August and went on to wow the audience at the Relentless Beach Sessions in Newquay.

Brian Setzer doesn't want your money. That's the only possible explanation for all the banjo-plucking, yodeling, classical noodling and other activities guaranteed to keep his songs off the radio, not to mention most other places where people find music these days.

Sony Music's Legacy Recordings will issue "Good Rockin' Tonight," the first career-spanning boxed set retrospective on Elvis Presley's career, on Dec.

The nine-disc set "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live," being released Oct. 20, is the Smithsonian Institution of music DVDs - fascinating, sprawling, inspiring, exhausting.

In the crowded field of great American pop acts from the 1960s and '70s, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons may not rank at the top in profound artistic quality, but certainly in high notes and - as it turns out - in back story.

It's arguably one of the largest pieces of Elvis Presley memorabilia ever: a 154.5-acre ranch in Horn Lake, Mississippi, once owned by the king of rock 'n' roll.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have just announced plans to perform their landmark 1975 album "Born to Run" in its entirety as part of their concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.

1968 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience got its start in London. 1968 - John Sebastian departed the Lovin' Spoonful to pursue a solo career.

Second of three articles Hilburn, former pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times, is author of "Corn Flakes With John Lennon ." An excerpt in Sunday Calendar recalled his relationship with Lennon after the Beatles' breakup.

1973 - The divorce between Elvis and Priscilla Presley became final. 1989 - KISS released the album Hot in the Shade .

Neil Young, 1967: Dellaccio asked Young to get up on his roof in his fringed leather jacket and "fly like a bird." She didn't print the shot at the time because she thought it made his face look old, "and he was so beautiful." JINI DELLACCIO COLLECTION In 1960: Jini Dellaccio self-portrait. JINI DELLACCIO COLLECTION The Sonics, 1966: Dellaccio's ...

About 15 years ago, grunge heroes Alice In Chains were one of the world's biggest rock bands, conquering the pop charts with soon-to-be heavy metal classics and earning notice as a stadium act-in-training. It wasn't long after that though when these aspirations were dashed and the band's circumstances really began to live up to the group's name.

Giants Stadium won't go quietly into the night. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play the last concert at the stadium Friday night before the venue is demolished to create parking for a new stadium.

Singer/songwriter Carly Simon is planning to play concert dates in Europe early next year for the first time in her 38-year career, she told Reuters on Thursday.

The hair of rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley is set to be auctioned off. A clump of the rock 'n' roll legend's locks, which were shorn when he joined the US army in 1958, will be auctioned in Chicago on Sunday October 18.

Wanda Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year.

"It always starts with the guitar riff," the Massapequa native said, pausing after playing the slinky intro to "King of the Whole Damn World," which veers from rockabilly to jazz, and singing in his high voice.

1971 - John Lennon recorded "Imagine.' 1977 - Billy Joel released his album The Stranger .

With the winter season nearing, Pine Island art galleries are gearing up for the first in a series of Creative Coast Weekends.

A long lust tuft of Elvis Presley's hair is going to the auction house. Yep, the King of Rock N' Roll's 51-year old hair was cut off when Elvis joined the U.S. Army in 1958.

Elvis Presley's teenage grandson Benjamin - the son of the rock 'n' roll legend's daughter Lisa Marie Presley - has landed a record deal worth $5 million.

Ethel's Tree of Life will hold its third annual Wine Tasting and Silent to Live Auction on Sunday, Nov.

Rock and roll music has always been about rebellion and non-conformity. When rock music became popular around the time Elvis started recording, the guitar had become a major part of the arranging and recording process, or at least a prominent prop for stage.

Elvis impersonator Ryan Pelton shattered a fluorescentlight with a rolled T-shirt fired from the Bloomsburg Fair band shell stage Sunday afternoon, officials say.

Last week, Lucy Vodden died after a long battle with lupus. Because I am fascinated with arcane trivia, I find her story to be interesting.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform an entire album at each of their five Giants Stadium shows, according to Rolling Stone .

It's something we intuitively feel anyway, but it's very much worth pointing out that horror and rock music both have a lot in common.

The region's first Full Moon Party is about to take place on Saturday, October 3, as a special fundraiser for the North West Simon Community.

AS TOMMY Steele says, he's responsible for so many firsts he feels like he's just come out of Oxford University, writes Lee Trewhela .