Ringo Starr’s personal copy of the Beatles’ The White Album, numbered No.0000001, sold for a world record $790,000 Saturday at the Julien’s Live auction of instruments and items from Starr and wife Barbara Bach’s estate. Starr’s White Album carried a pre-auction estimate of $40,000 to $60,000, a number that was easily shattered during bidding. “We… Source: Music […]

Lee “Scratch” Perry’s “secret laboratory” studio in Switzerland burned down Thursday, destroying the dub legend’s collection of studio equipment, art, stage costumes and music. “Something very very sad happened. I forgot to [put] out a candle and my whole secret laboratory burned out,” Perry wrote on Facebook, “My whole life… Source: Music News

Spike Lee has come under fire from critics and Chicagoans alike for turning the Windy City’s widespread issues with gun violence into a musical-comedy for his new film Chi-Raq, and now Chance the Rapper has added his voice to the chorus of detractors slamming the film. In a series of tweets, the Chicago… Source: Music News

Thom Yorke debuted a pair of new tracks, “Silent Spring” and “Desert Island Disk,” at the Pathway to Paris concert Friday that coincided with the climate conferences in the French capital. The tracks are the first new songs from the Radiohead singer since his 2014 solo LP Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes as well as a… Source: Music News

To mark the arrival of The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966 as well as the restored release of Dont Look Back, rare footage from Bob Dylan’s 1965 and 1966 European tours, filmed by director D.A. Pennebaker, has been pieced together to create a new video for “Just… Source: Music News

In one of Scott Weiland’s final interviews, recorded backstage at a Toronto concert just two days before he passed away at the age of 48, the former Stone Temple Pilots singer talked about his family, the death of Wildabouts guitarist Jeremy Brown and his own musical legacy. “First off, I [view] the bands I’ve… Source: Music […]

Tributes continue to pour in for Scott Weiland after the former Stone Temple Pilots singer passed away at 48 Thursday night. Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Weiland’s alternative rock peer since the early Nineties, wrote a touching tribute where he called Weiland one of the defining voices of his era. “If you asked me… Source: Music News

A small quantity of cocaine was present in the tour bus bedroom where Scott Weiland was found dead, Bloomington, Minnesota police reported Friday. Detectives discovered the controlled substance after searching the tour bus where the former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver singer, who had had a long complicated relationship… Source: Music News

Coldplay’s last album, 2014’s Ghost Stories, was a surprisingly dark and muted set released just months after Chris Martin’s split with Gwyneth Paltrow. A year and a half later, the frown has been turned upside down. A Head Full of Dreams, produced by Norwegian hitmakers Stargate, might be Coldplay’s brightest… Source: Music News

“You can’t sum up somebody like this,” Rolling Stone senior writer David Fricke says of rock legend Scott Weiland, who died on Thursday at age 48. “Because, fact is, they weren’t done.” In the above video interview, Fricke reflects on Weiland’s resiliency – through drug battles, harsh media criticism and personal demons – and… Source: Music News