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In 1977, Bruce Springsteen was caught up in a nasty lawsuit with his ex-manager, Mike Appel, and was running out of money to pay the members of the E Street Band. Springsteen was legally barred from the recording studio, and the band members were losing patience. As guitarist Steve Van …

UPDATE (1/12): The Weeknd has offered up a new remix of “Sacrifice” featuring Swedish House Mafia that comes with a completely new music video as well. The “alternate world” clip isn’t nearly as creepy as the original, though it does boast some strange touches as white-eyed, levitating dancers achieve ultimate …

Bon Jovi will return to the road this April for the band’s first full-scale tour of the pandemic era. Dubbed simply “Bon Jovi 2022 Tour,” the 15-date trek — Omicron permitting — kicks off April 1st in Omaha and zips around the Midwest and southern region of the U.S. before …

February marks the 89th birthday of Yoko Ono, and Ben Gibbard will celebrate with a tribute album to the artist, out Feb. 18. David Byrne and Yo La Tengo have previewed the project with a cover of Ono’s “Who Has Seen the Wind?” which she originally released as a B-side …

Angela “Angie” Kukawski, a business manager in Los Angeles whose clients have included Kanye West and Nicki Minaj, was found dead after an apparent homicide. The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed Kukawski’s death in a statement shared on social media. She had been reported missing on Dec. 22 from Sherman …

Drummer Billy Conway, whose work with revered Nineties group Morphine blended jazz, blues, and rock into a critically-acclaimed amalgam, died on Sunday at the age of 65. Conway’s friend and bandmate Jeffrey Foucault confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone, adding that the cause of death was cancer. “We are …

The long-awaited Spider-Man: No Way Home lands in theaters this week. It’s been the subject of endless rumors about the possible return of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield to the franchise thanks to Dr. Strange casting a spell for current Spider-Man Tom Holland that splits open multiple universes. Critics are …

Dee Dee Ramone specifically wrote that he didn’t “want to be buried in a pet sematary,” but that didn’t stop L.A. musicians/artists Coyote Shivers and Pleasant Gehman from turning his grave into a wildlife buffet and documenting it all on Instagram account Ramones Ducks. (Rolling Stone first met the ducks …

Tom Waits turns 72 today, but don’t expect him to mark the occasion in any sort of public way. The cult favorite singer-songwriter has kept a very low public profile during the past decade and has largely walked away from his music career, even though he takes on the odd …

One of the most incredible moments in The Beatles: Get Back comes about an hour into the first episode when Paul McCartney sits down early one morning and basically writes “Get Back” in front of George Harrison and Ringo Starr. “Everything you need to know about creativity is in that …