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This Week in Music History: December 30 - January 5 -- Drummers vs. Cars With Keith Moon & Rick Allen

This week in history a number of bad things happened to the likes of Ray Davies, George Harrison and Rick Allen. ... Read More »

Thanksgiving & Music History: The Last Waltz, Lennon's Final Concert & More

Thanksgiving has a rich musical history, including the Band's "Last Waltz," John Lennon's final concert, Nickelback's halftime controversy and more. ... Read More »

Ray Davies Cancels US Tour Due to Illness

Due to an unknown illness, Ray Davies has cancelled an upcoming US tour with the Dessoff Chamber Choir. ... Read More »

Mumford and Sons Reissuing 'Sigh No More' With Live Album

Mumford and Sons are releasing a 12-track live album recorded at their Shepherd's Bush Empire shows earlier this year, as part of a limited-edition deluxe CD and DVD reissue of their debut 'Sigh No More' on Nov. 29. ... Read More »

Ray Davies Rails Against Hop Farm Festival Organisers and Bands

Ray Davies vented his frustrations on stage to 30,000 people on Saturday, July 3, after organisers ... Read More »

Bobcat Goldthwait Directing Film Based on Kinks' 'Schoolboys In Disgrace'

Bobcat Goldthwait, the '80s comedian/actor whose stuttering ways were highlighted in two 'Police ... Read More »

Ray Davies Pays Tribute to Late Kinks Bassist Pete Quaife at Glastonbury

Ray Davies' position as a national treasure has long been confirmed, thanks to the poignancy and the ... Read More »

Kinks' Influence, Possible Reunion Examined in New Documentary

Most rock music fans have an appreciation for the Kinks, but Geoff Edgers, an arts writer for the ... Read More »

Glastonbury Adds Flaming Lips, Orbital and More to the Bill

OK, so we all knew that U2, Muse and Stevie Wonder were confirmed as Pyramid Stage headliners at ... Read More »

Ray Davies and Jackson Browne Added to Glastonbury Line-Up

After the blogosphere went into a combination of meltdown and hilarity following the news that ... Read More »

The Kinks to Release Unheard Songs on New Album

Mick Avory, longtime drummer for seminal British rock group the Kinks has reconfirmed that they will ... Read More »

Robyn Hitchcock Covers Dylan, Velvets and Hendrix in New York

Prone as he is to rambling, trippy asides and witty non sequiturs, Robyn Hitchcock prefaced Sunday's ... Read More »

Ray Davies Rerecording Kinks Songs With Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi and More

While Kinks frontman Ray Davies joins millions of British Invasion fans in waiting on his brother ... Read More »

15 Bands That Got Banned

It takes a special kind of person to get banned from, say, a pub or a nightclub. We've all have a ... Read More »

Chrissie Hynde Promises 'Incredible' Solo Album

Chrissie Hynde is making some tall promises -- the Pretenders frontwoman says she is working on her ... Read More »

Ray Davies' Kinks Musical Scrapped

'Come Dancing,' a musical written and fronted by Kinks lead singer Ray Davies has been scrapped from ... Read More »