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R. Diamond/Getty Images)Lynyrd Skynyrd has a new record label: the band has just signed a deal with Frontiers SRL. Their first release will be Celebrating 50 Years – Live At ...

Steve Thorne/RedfernsBack in February, Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer revealed that he had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that left him unable to play guitar. Now he’s sharing a hea...

Photo credit: Richard Sibbald.Moog Music has announced a new collaboration with Rush rocker Geddy Lee.The company is debuting a new synthesizer, the Moog Music Geddy Lee Minimoog Model D. It take...

Disney/Jennifer PottheiserNot like he needs the money, but Elton John has just won a $100,000 prize for his artistic accomplishments.As Toronto's The Globe and Mail reports, Elton is the 15t...

ABC/Randy HolmesU2 have been chosen as the next Academy Fellow of The Ivors Academy, the U.K. organization that presents The Ivor Novello Awards to celebrate excellence in British and Irish songw...

Madonna in 1993; Steve Eichner/WireImage; Barbra Streisand in 1993; Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Imagesmagine Madonna duetting with Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler. Well, that diva-palooza almost happened ...

Maansi Srivastava for the Washington PostThis year marks the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. While the surviving band members – Bobby Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann &ndas...

Capitol RecordsAfter touring to celebrate the 40th anniversaries of R.E.M.’s Murmur and Fables of the Reconstruction, actor Michael Shannon and his musical partner Jason Narducy are ready t...

Island Def Jam Music Group/photo by Bob GruenKISS has found a unique way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their third studio album Dressed to Kill.To mark the occasion, on Saturday KISS will ...

On This Day March 20, 1969 ...John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who met in 1966 and became romantically involved in 1968, got married in Gibraltar.They honeymooned in Paris, Amsterdam and Montreal, staging be...