Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Only drummer and composer Strickland — who would later take over guitar duties for the band, teaching himself Ricky’s distinctive, ...

It’s likely a testament to the commitment of the members of the B-52s that each of its remaining long-term members; Kate Pierson, Fred Schneider, and Cindy Wilson, has only released two albums apiece ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “[Its] dream of peace, empowerment and hope feels more urgent now than ever,” Pierson says of the tune, which Smith wrote with her ...

Indie rock vets and ’90s Simple Machines labelmates Tsunami and Ida kicked off their “Coin Flip” co-headlining tour on Saturday night at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock. The tour is named that as they ...

In 1988, Patti Smith sang, “The power to dream, to rule/To wrestle the world from fools/It’s decreed: the people rule.” It rang true back then and continues to now, as the B-52’s Kate Pierson reminds ...

Raise your glass to girl-group power. It's returning thanks to music-maven Simon Cowell, who understands the need to resurrect this abandoned, gay-celebrated American tradition, where female voices ...