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Ian Bairnson, longtime guitarist for the Alan Parsons Project who also featured on Kate Bush’s first two albums, has died at the age of 69. The Scottish-born musician’s wife Leila Bairnson revealed on social media that her husband died following a “long battle with dementia.” “It is with deep sadness …

Papa Emeritus IV and Swedish heavy metal act Ghost blasphemously celebrated Easter Sunday with a surprise cover of Genesis’ 1992 single “Jesus He Knows Me.” Fitting for a song that spoofs televangelism, Ghost paired their rendition with an Alex Ross Perry-directed, age-restricted video featuring the duplicitous Father Jim DeFroque who …

Noname has announced she will be releasing new album Sundial in July. The Chicago rapper shared the news on Sunday, April 9, a week before her first performance at this year’s Coachella on April 16; she’s also set to play the second weekend on April 23. She made the brief …

Graham Nash has revealed in a new interview that David Crosby died during a bout with Covid-19. At the time of the Crosby, Stills and Nash singer’s Jan. 19 death, his family said in a statement that Crosby definitely following a “long illness,” though no exact cause of death was …

Three years after it was revealed that Timothée Chalamet would star in a Bob Dylan biopic, director James Mangold has offered an update on the long-in-the-works A Complete Unknown. Despite just being named as the director of an upcoming Star Wars film, Mangold told Collider at the Star Wars Celebration …

John Regan — the bassist who was a member of Ace Frehley’s band Frehley’s Comet and recorded and performed with Peter Frampton — died on Friday at the age of 71. His wife, Cathy Merring-Regan, confirmed the news on Facebook in a post shared by a family friend. A cause …

A teacher suing Kanye West and his private school, Donda Academy, claims that students are “at least two years” behind and that they should “get out now.” Cecilia Hailey and her daughter, Chekarey Byers, the two plaintiffs in the lawsuit, allege that they were unfairly fired in March from Donda …

Chlöe Bailey, who has taken the Tonight Show stage several times as a musical guest, sat down with Jimmy Fallon on Friday night. The “Pray It Away” singer talked friendly sibling rivalry with her sister Halle, working with Beyoncé on the set of The Fighting Temptations, and her upcoming debut …

Halsey talked about landing a role in the upcoming slasher flick MaXXXine and how a spider in the audition room helped the get the part in the latest episode of their For the Record show on the Amp app. The singer, who makes their acting debut in the SXSW hit …

One of the four men charged in the murder of rapper Pop Smoke has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and home invasion robbery. The 20-year-old man — whose name has been withheld from the court because he was a 17-year-old minor at the time of Pop Smoke’s Feb. 2020 death …