Rock & Roll News

Little Richard is asking fans to pray for his speedy recovery after undergoing hip surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

All things music from the Tennessean.com entertainment staff. Click to see photos from John Fogerty's stop at the Mercy Lounge in September .

He was just a kid when he sang his way out of the Bronx and punched his ticket to fame with "A Teenager In Love" and "Where Or When," which were among the iconic songs that earned Dion DiMucci a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Clic Gallerya s new show a oeBande a Parta documents the city's raucous rock n' roll past.

Via Tim Carman , I learn today that Arlington fusion restaurant Yaku will close in January to eventually make room for a rock & roll sushi joint.

Lucinda Williams performs Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009, during the Janis Joplin tribute concert at PlayhouseSquare's State Theatre.

Faithful SooToday.com readers will recall us telling you earlier this year about Duane Roy from Wawa writing a book about the rock-and-roll years at Castle Farms in Charlevoix, Michigan.

Janis Joplin has an indelible image as a swaggering, boozing rock 'n' roll mama whose blues-based music was a raw outpouring of her angst.

Lonesome Onry and Mean vaguely remembers someone telling us a couple of years ago that Las Vegas bookies actually had a line on whether Chuck Berry would die that year .

When Harley Wood steps on stage as singer for the band Far From Falling, he emulates pure rock 'n' roll.

In Allen Toussaint's view, Dave Bartholomew deserves much more. In the 1950s and '60s, Bartholomew produced and co-wrote most of Fats Domino's hits, making theirs the most fruitful creative partnership in New Orleans music history.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are to release Live, a 2-DVD, 1 CD set on 16th November 2009 on the band's own Abstract Dragon label.

"The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion," Avedon is quoted as saying in the text accompanying his 1961 portrait of the Everly Brothers.

The term "rock 'n' roll" has always referred to more than just the music. Its sonic oomph -- personified in images of our teenage crushes and all-time idols, whether it's Elvis gyrating his hips or Kurt Cobain thrashing his guitar -- make up the other half of the picture.

Filled with pop images of the Rolling Stones, Elvis, U2, DMC and Madonna the Brooklyn Museum on Friday will open " Who Shot Rock & Roll ," a show it's billing as the first major museum exhibition devoted solely to rock photographers.

Live: Even Lou Reed Gets Sentimental At Rock Hall MSG Blowout #2 Monday, Nov. 2 2009 @ 12:00PM Ooooh plus "Iron Man" Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Celebration Madison Square Garden Friday, October 30 "When we were down, rock 'n' roll lifted us up," says Tom Hanks in his introductory remarks for the final night of the Rock and Roll ...

U2 brought three generations of chart-toppers - Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen and the Black Eyed Peas - with them onstage Friday at another night of mix-and-match magicat Madison Square Garden.

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.

A surprise collaboration by Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel capped Thursday night's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concert, at Madison Square Garden.

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.