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“Oasis is done,” Liam Gallagher told us in 2019. “If you missed them, that’s fucking tough luck.” Five years later, it seems that luck is on the side of Oasis fans, with brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher planning a reunion tour for next year. It’s huge news for a band …

Music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones made global headlines in February when he filed a stunningly detailed $30 million sexual assault, trafficking and racketeering lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs in Manhattan federal court. Jones claimed the hip-hop mogul groped him, secretly drugged him and forced him to solicit and participate …

“Deep down, I always felt that this was my dream, and my true path,” Noeline Hofmann says. Two years ago, Hofmann was working on a ranch in Western Canada, having just seen her high school years derailed by the pandemic and having brushed aside any hopes of a career in …

Just over 40 years ago, Ronald Reagan became the first American president to name-drop Bruce Springsteen. “America’s future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts,” he told a crowd at a New Jersey campaign stop in September 1984. “It rests in the message of hope in the songs of …

After releasing 10 studio albums that run the gamut from rock-opera concept records to collections of cocksure power-pop, Butch Walker is putting a period on his recording career as a solo artist. Ironically, the singer-songwriter came to that decision while gearing up to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his breakthrough …

I n January 2007, a few months after the conclusion of the On an Island tour, David Gilmour and members of his road band, including Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, convened in a drafty barn on his U.K. property to try out some new song ideas. “I hadn’t thought this …

G Herbo stands in the wood-paneled control room of a studio in Chicago’s River West neighborhood one afternoon in early May, playing potential tracks for his latest mixtape, Big Swerv (out Sept. 6). He recorded much of it right here in this studio, which served as his second home through …

When word of an Oasis reunion tour started spreading online over the weekend, it was easy to dismiss it as yet another rumor drummed up by the U.K. press. We’ve seen this many times before with reports of reunions by the Smiths and Kinks that never came close to fruition. …

In March 2020, when a lethal twister tore through East Nashville just days before an even more devastating pandemic, the storied Woodland Sound Studios — home to the likes of Tammy Wynette’s Soft Touch, Indigo Girls’ Swamp Ophelia, Jimmy Buffett’s A1A, and scores of cherished others — stood tall in …

Onstage Friday night at Atlanta’s Chastain Park, Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr sang about home in the slow-burn rock ballad “Azalea,” a track off the group’s latest album Be Right Here: “Maybe it’s not out there/Maybe this leads nowhere/Home will always be right here.” For Blackberry Smoke, home is Atlanta. Since …