Roger Wink, VVN Music, Author at Noise11.com

Steve Vai has written an impassioned plea for help in getting the royalties paid to artists updated to a modern standard.

The musicians that backed David Bowie on his final album, Blackstar, have reformed to record an album saluting the late singer.

Billy Corgan posted a new update on Facebook Friday confirming a host of new projects.

Jeff Lynne’s ELO has now officially scored their first number 1 album in 35 years.

Keyboardist Gary Wright is the New Jersey-born psychology student who landed in London at the height of the rock revolution in 1967, where he founded Spooky Tooth and had a successful solo career producing the classic hits Dream Weaver and Love Is Alive.

Music artists, living and dead, are involved in new program development.

Pat Upton, who sang lead on the Spiral Starecase’s single More Today Than Yesterday, died on Wednesday after what was described as a “long illness”. He was 75.

Bruce Springsteen releases his long-in-the-writing autobiography, Born to Run, on September 27.

The Go Go’s have their final concert set for August 30 at the Hollywood Bowl, ending their 38 year career.

Pink Floyd will release The Early Years 1965-1972 on Friday, November 11. Pink Floyd have delved into their vast music archive, back to the very start of their career, to produce a deluxe 27-disc boxset featuring 7 individual book-style packages, featuring never before released material.

Last year, the B-52’s released an archived live show from 1979 on digital sites. On August 5, that album will finally make itself to CD.

Two things may be coming together to give ELO (or Electric Light Orchestra, for those not up on the latest lingo) their first number 1 album in Britain in 35 years.

UFO is playing a very busy schedule with runs of four and five nights in a row without a break.

For the sixth year, iHeartMedia will present the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas.

On September 30, Sting will release The Studio Collection, a career-spanning vinyl LP box set featuring all of his seminal solo studio albums brought together for the first time.

Producer and manager Sandy Pearlman, who worked with artists like Blue Oyster Cult, the Clash and the Dictators, has died in the aftermath of a cerebral hemorrhage that he suffered in December. He was 72.

John Oliver did a lengthy bit of his show on HBO last night on the use of popular music by politicians, highlighting not only the numerous complaints over the last week, but also historical incidents such as Ronald Reagan’s use of Bruce Springsteen’s rather non-patriotic Born in the USA.

Over Thirty people were arrested on Saturday night at a Guns N’ Roses show in New Jersey.

On September 23, Parolphone will release the new twelve-CD box set David Bowie: Who Can I Be Now?

Yes will release a new version of their 1973 set Tales of Topographic Oceans as the fifth in a series of remixed and expanded albums by Steven Wilson.

Police have handcuffed Dr Dre outside his Malibu home after someone was blocking his drive.

Shakin’ Stevens has returned with his twelfth studio album, Echoes Of Our Times, due in September 16.

Insane Clown Posse has called on all their Juggalo supporters to march on Washington.

The National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) in Philadelphia will be the exclusive East Coast venue for Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution.