Rock Music

Sony Music has reportedly bought the music catalog of English rock band Queen, including hits like Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, and Another One Bites The Dust, for around $1.27 billion.

Paramore lead singer Haley Williams lashed out at Ron DeSantis supporters during a recent concert, telling the crowd that “if you vote for Ron DeSantis, you’re f**king dead to me.”

A growing number of straight male rockers are choosing to perform in drag to protest Tennessee and Florida laws that are designed to prevent drag queens from performing their frequently raunchy acts in front of children.

The unclassifiable social media superstar Tim Pool has amassed an enormous online following — garnering nearly a half-billion YouTube views — by embracing an anti-establishment and anti-woke worldview that doesn’t adhere to conventional partisan politics. His foray into music represents

Van Morrison is being sued for libel by Northern Ireland’s Health Minister after the singer called him “dangerous” for his lockdown policies.

The New York Times opinion section has run a column advocating for classic rock songs like Don McLean’s “American Pie” to be reconsidered and maybe even “toppled” like historic Confederate statues, arguing that reevaluating beloved songs will help create a world that is “inclusive and more just.”

Former Verve rocker Richard Ashcroft has canceled his scheduled appearance at the Tramlines Festival in Sheffield, England, over its participation in a government testing program that will require attendees to have received both COVID-19 vaccinations or a negative coronavirus test in the last two days.

For maybe the first time in their deluded, cosseted, snowflake bubble lives, progressive music fans are finally getting a taste of something that conservative music fans have to put up with all the time: the misery of discovering that your pop icon hero just doesn’t share your politics.

JERUSALEM — British band Radiohead will perform one show in Israel this summer, Channel 2 reported on Sunday.

Liverpool didn’t produce its disproportionate share of successful rock groups by chance back in the 1960s.

The Times of Israel reports: Heavy metal rocker Alice Cooper Tuesday announced his “first ever” concert in Israel as part of his “Raise the Dead” 2016 tour. While the June 16 date at Tel Aviv’s Bloomfield Stadium is not listed

The Slovenian band Laibach—an industrial rock outfit who have repeatedly been accused of fascist sympathies in their decades-long history—have received permission from the oppressive regime of Kim Jong-Un to perform in Pyongyang. They will be the first foreign band of their kind to grace such a stage in North Korea.

Wilco, an alternative American rock band, canceled its upcoming show in Indianapolis because of Indiana’s controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Turkish imam Ahmet Muhsin Tüzer has found an innovative way to reach out to the believers in his and other congregations: forming a rock band, FiRock, to sing the praises of Allah. While Tüzer has played gigs all over the world, one Muslim country has denied him entry– Saudi Arabia, which he calls especially “painful” because of Saudi Arabia’s official status as a Muslim state.